On 20/06/2005 18:05, Corey Knafelz wrote:
The NS kit Free sound great btw Carl. Thanks for putting it together.
My ns_kit7free dbkit is just an inflated rip-off of Mike Carlyle's version :) I did rearrange things slightly, like for example I separate the left and right snares as though they were different drums (figuring the hypothetical drummer has 2 arms, after all), but the ordinary, rimshot, and press roll samples for a given hand are all grouped together (figuring you can't do a lefthand press roll at the same time as you do lefthand rimshot). This seemed like an aid to "thinking like a drummer" to me, but man! does it make a huge list of choices when you context-click on a drum (there being, for example, some 64 variations of "left hand snare" if you're using an "uncut" version of my ns_kit7free dbkit). Potentially, it could be more usable if the variations were separated out -- that would make a longer drum kit list and allow you to trigger a lefthand press roll at the same time as you do lefthand rimshot, but some or many may not be bothered by that. I think I'm gonna wait until Ben enables direct editing of MIDI velocity values from the keyboard to finish off the MIDI kit mapping stuff -- hand-editing all :) but hopefully it will then be pretty useable and versatile. I'm already thinking about how to do myself up a basic ns_kit7 (full) dbkit that will make good use of the wider range of sounds (mmm, part-open hats! :) without making the dbkit interface too stupidly extreme. A lot of the instruments in ns_kit7free have 16 velocity levels; I might try, for example, 12 evenly spaced basic velocity levels of snare (I love rolls that rise and fall dramatically :) but have like three a, b, and c, sublevels of level 12, with 12b as the default (assuming the majority of the snare hits in my compositions would be full on hits, but allowing me a little more genuine variation in sound between different samples at that level). Cheers, Carl -- Carl Edlund Anderson mailto:cea@carlaz.com http://www.carlaz.com/