On 25 Mar 2007, at 17:04, Michael Carlyle wrote:
Has anyone else noticed this? I can't remember wether the original NS Kit sounds were like this, or if I manipulated them in some misguided way.
I don't remember, but you might have. The ns_kit samples are pretty much totally dry -- no compression or 'verb anything on it that I know of. So it can sound kind of strange next to the drum sounds we're used to hearing on record. Also, it sounds "a certain way", as will all samples, and that certain way will appeal to us as individuals more or less at different times and in different circumstances. So you may simply be digging the Yamaha more, too :) There seem to be an increasing number of ways to get drum hit samples at multiple velocities for not _too_ much money; quite a lot of the relatively affordable drum loop packages from Betamonkey or even the slightly more pricey Drums on Demand loops include multi-velocity samples (if not necessarily at the sometimes insane level of detail that ns_kit goes to). I reckon I could put together several more kits in the style of ns_kit using such samples that I've culled from my handful of loop CDs, but I've been kind of hanging out to see what any prospective work on DB2 brings to make using multi-velocity dbkits slightly less harrowing :) Cheers, Carl -- Carl Edlund Anderson http://www.carlaz.com/