Just out of curiosity, are any of you working on new drum kits to upload? I keep bugging my brother-in-law (the one I did the djembe kit with) to come over with some of his other drums. He has hundreds of them, and has actually reached the stage where he writes them off on his taxes. It's a sickness, it really is... Anyway, being the enabler that I am, in the planning stage right now are:
-A full Melenke kit- three djembes and three dunnuns. -A kit based on Carl's jazz kit -A conga set (he has 6) -A "misc percussion" set of woodblocks, cowbells, boomwhackers, rain stick, and whatever else we have lying around.
I'd love to see a latin percussion kit and a symphony kit with timpanis and such...
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I'm recording a lo-fi kit that is starting to sound pretty good. It's a one-mic (placed across the room) sample of my junky 5 piece student set circa 1965 or so. I like it because it sounds very "live" to me. I'm going to call it the "Behan Box" in honor of my buddy Tom Behan, who owns the drums but lets me keep them indefinitely.
On Wednesday, April 28, 2004, at 03:39 PM, The Reverend wrote:
Just out of curiosity, are any of you working on new drum kits to upload? I keep bugging my brother-in-law (the one I did the djembe kit with) to come over with some of his other drums. He has hundreds of them, and has actually reached the stage where he writes them off on his taxes. It's a sickness, it really is... Anyway, being the enabler that I am, in the planning stage right now are:
-A full Melenke kit- three djembes and three dunnuns. -A kit based on Carl's jazz kit -A conga set (he has 6) -A "misc percussion" set of woodblocks, cowbells, boomwhackers, rain stick, and whatever else we have lying around.
I'd love to see a latin percussion kit and a symphony kit with timpanis and such...
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The Reverend wrote:
Just out of curiosity, are any of you working on new drum kits to upload? I keep bugging my brother-in-law (the one I did the djembe kit with) to come over with some of his other drums. He has hundreds of them, and has actually reached the stage where he writes them off on his taxes. It's a sickness, it really is... Anyway, being the enabler that I am, in the planning stage right now are: -A full Melenke kit- three djembes and three dunnuns. -A kit based on Carl's jazz kit -A conga set (he has 6) -A "misc percussion" set of woodblocks, cowbells, boomwhackers, rain stick, and whatever else we have lying around. I'd love to see a latin percussion kit and a symphony kit with timpanis and such...
Bring it on! :)
I had been jotting up notes for the kinds of samples I was looking for to put together a good general-purpose latin percussion kit with multiple velocities. I thought the following instruments: * quinto & conga & tumba (aka high, medium, and low congas, I think) * bongo * timbale * cowbell * woodblock and/or clave * guiro or guacharaca (aka scraper :) * shaker * maraca * tamborine And for the hand drums, I thought it would be ideal to have enough samples that one could program in patterns from things like Larry Morris's "Rhythm Catalog" http://www.drums.org/djembefaq/rhycat.htm. Thus: samples of open, slap, bass, finger, and mute tones ... maybe even slap-mute, heel, and tip tones, and open and muted flams :) And ideally maybe 4 velocities of each sample.
That makes a heck of a lot of samples! :) But it would also make a very cool kit that would whip the arse of a lot of commercial sample packs by not suffer from the usual automated "ethnic" percussion problem of "the same damn conga hit over and over" (much in the way that throwing in some slightly different hat or ride hits livens up a regular rock drum track :)
But apart from a few samples stolen from existing dbkits, ns_kit, GarageBand, and some old synth samples, I haven't done very well at finding this variety of sounds! :P I do have a cool-looking (and sounding) maraca made by some native peoples in Colombia (my sister-in-law gave it to me), but my crappy mic is terrible for everything including recording samples! :P
Cheers, Carl