EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

On 12/12/2004, at 4:11 AM, Brian Pylant wrote:

>
> Hello-
>
> I'm looking for a good set of rock drum samples in EXS (or compatible)
> format. Specifically, I am most definitely *not* looking for modern
> rock drums, but hopefully more natural-sounding kits (think '60s and
> '70s drum sounds, warm and 'analog'-sounding, like you're standing in a
> nice room with a great player).
>
> (I'm not looking for freebies, you often get what you pay for, but of
> course if there are good free sets out there I'd love to check them
> out!)
>
> Any recommendations would be most appreciated, thanks!

The two I use for acoustic kits are Mixtend drums from Wizzoo and BFD 
from Fxpansion.

BFD has better integration of ambience control and makes it a lot 
easier to build custom kits - "a snare from kit X and kick from kit Y" 
and it also has a broader range of kit sounds but it's also a huge CPU 
hog and I don't like the way it uses multiple outs via AUX objects as 
you loose plug-in delay compensation.

Mixtend has the benefit of running under EXSX 24 - very light on CPU 
use. Because you're dealing with dry, overhead and room samples, 
building custom kits via the EXS interface is more time consuming. When 
I work I use a seperate EXS for every sound in my kit so I can mix each 
kit sound with plugins on the audio instrument itself and maintain 
plugin delay compensation - something you can't do with BFD.

Overall I wish I had a faster mac than is available now and Logic added 
plugin delay compensation on busses & Aux objects - then the BFD issues 
would not be so bad. Another 12 months then all this will be a reality 
I think....

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Paul Najar
Jaminajar Music Production
www.jaminajar.com