The Yammaha is my kit of choice at the moment. I'd say that although its probably got the minimum sounds for a useful kit, they really work well together especially the snare sounds. I can get quite a natural sound very easily with it and its good for acoustic and heavy songs. The one drawback is that there is only one satisfying cymbal crash but I might see if I can generate another by lowering the pitch of the sample and changing the pan setting... Not such a fan of the nskit despite the variety of velocities and samples. its a bit too clean and 'studio for me. My other favourite is the Ludwig kit but I'm tending to use the Yamaha more now. There's a few songs I've done with the kit on my site www.sionsmusic.cinnamondesign.co.uk Cheers Sion Sion Morris Liverpool www.sionsmusic.cinnamondesign.co.uk ------------------------------------------- On 25 Mar 2007, at 17:04, Michael Carlyle wrote:
With the purchase of a Tascam 2488 MKII on the horizon, I'm starting to get some drum tracks in order. I'll still program drums on the Mac, then dump an exported audio file into the 2488. I'll probably program a scratch track just to make sure the timing works, then go back and polish up the drum tracks as a last step.
So... I've been noticing that the Yamaha kit has some really nice sounds. The NS Kit that I've spent so much time putting together sounds small and compressed by comparison. I like the variety I've put into the NS Kit, but now I'm not sure I like the sounds.
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.