Please download nskit v7 and check out the way I put it together. It's based on linked sounds, rather than embedded, so the kit remains at a manageble file size. I think you're on the right track though. Thirty one kicks would not be all that useful for the average Joe. Obsessive compulsive beat sequencers might beg to differ. Use as many as makes sense. I think it's very useful to have a lot of snare offerings as well as high hat. Those seem the most important to vary. Double check the royalty-free status of your sounds. They may be free to use in compositions or on recordings, but distributing them in their "raw" format may be a no no. On 2/11/05 7:50 AM, "adrian.delso@btopenworld.com" <adrian.delso@btopenworld.com> wrote:
On a coverdisk off a magazine (Digital Music Maker # 8) is a bunch of royalty-free drum samples. I am currently constructing a kit, using them all (about 170 samples), and it's huge - 86mb. Obviously, I won't be submitting it to the db library! I will however use it, as is, until I'm really familiar with it and then discard the samples I never use (I still have the CD, after all.)
My question is: what is a sensible number of variants?
This set has e.g. ten different woodblock hits and 31 different kicks! I'm thinking three velocities per instrument - Hard, Medium and Light, plus things like a rimshot or two, separate Bell and Edge for Rides. It doesn't feature flams nor buzzes, like David's excellent Ludwig set, which is a shame. I suppose I could import them from David's kit, if that's OK.
Subsidiary question: what's the difference between Accent, Default & Ghost and Hard, Medium & Light? (This is only really an issue, if I do decide to post the kit to the Library for approval.)
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