Kick and Snare Samples...

I’ve got Blackbird. There is some cool stuff in there but I don’t dig them as much as the SD3/Indiependent stuff that you already have.

I almost always use trigger. Lately I attempt to tune a snare close and room to original, also a beater & sub kick sample, sometimes kick room also. Mostly use CLA’s trigger pack, sometimes Dates or Bendeth’s. I dont have Blackbird. The snare & kick room samples I send to a room buss along with real rooms and it becomes part of the room sound. Im sure Blackbird samples are great, what Im using is working. I will say Ive experimented with using multiple samples, Some people (including some pro’s) like to stack an insane amount. I seem to get a better result using only 1. Like I mentioned I’ll use the close, room, sometimes OH, of that sample but I only use 1.

I use CLA Drums from Trigger as well, but record rock bands. Good variety of samples for that genre.

I have a bunch I’ll try to send you later today

Maybe if I was getting tracks where A) They spent more than ten minutes setting up mics, B) The engineer really knew what they were doing, I might leave the kit the way it was recorded...but I rarely get that. Plus, for big pop sounding stuff, the quirkiness of specific kicks aren’t exactly what you’re looking for.

Have you found a better way to do it other than using the tracker option? I agree with you, there are some killer sounds in there...and I’ve used tracker before for K&S supplement...but it’s a multi step process. Seems like someone was saying you can find the raw sound and pop it into trigger. But it is definitely nice to tweak it in the SD mixer with all the additional mics.

I’ve also had this problem. When I get it into tracker and then convert it to midi, I find it has some bad alignment issues. I.e., it never lines up when trying to drag the whole song. It will usually do about a vs and chorus correctly, then gets out of line. So then I just have to go in start from the second verse. Kind of a pita.

I don’t want to have to actually WORK.

I’ve used the tracker with good success here.

But yeah, you could bounce out a WAV of an SD3 hit, throw it in your kick or snare folder for Trigger and voila. But that’s a one shot kinda thing. If you want nuance/ghosting or any of that, gotta use tracker.

Have you hit up TT support for the mis-alignment issue?

I think - though - that's why the tracker thing sounds really good. There are different round robins on the kit pieces. Never really thought about it that way, but it's much harder to detect samples that way.

Have you heard the drum samples in an p;ld Yamaha Motif8 keyboard? Seriously usable.

I mean, if you've listened to pop music lately, you're hearing them. 5 seconds of summer, Niall Horan, Lovely the Band, Nick Jonas, imagine dragons. et al . . . that kind of stuff.

Nice when you hold on to a workstation and its sounds come back in vogue again! Can I attach an MP3 of some samples here?

Ugh, so depressing, homogeneity. I don't ever even think about samples unless what's there is hopeless, and that's usually the kick. If I need a sample I steal it from something else I've recorded myself. Luddite on this question.

Er...not really what I’m looking for.