Fills and grooves fit together seamlessly. On the right-hand side, you can listen to demo tracks to hear the impressive results.Īmazing sound, really easy to use. This is especially clear with our hi-hat samples, for instance. Then, we cut most of the necessary sounds out of the grooves, in various velocities, and processed them to deliver samples as realistic as possible. Although doing so is almost impossible, we broke with tradition in sample recording, which calls for capturing every sound individually Instead, our studio drummer played entire grooves. In particular, the innovative functions for creating fills generate very smooth and realistic drum tracks.īecause we used high-quality cymbals and microphones for the recordings, the crash, ride and hi-hat cymbals sound especially refined and pleasant at various velocities.Īs early as during microphoning of the set and recording of individual samples, we took great care to replicate realistic circumstances. You can choose from thousands of assorted rhythms in the comprehensive Groove Library and compose your own drum accompaniment. The compressors built into the channels give you even more control over the level of compression. Its kick and snare drums come through clearly in any mixing situation – and still sound natural and not overly compressed. But this is exactly where the MT Power Drum Kit is strongest. Either the kick drum suddenly sounds much too slack or fuzzy in the mix, or the snare drum, which initially sounds natural and dynamic in solo mode, suddenly gets lost in the background in the overall mix, drowned out by the guitars and other instruments.
Some of the expensive plugins available on the market deliver a highly natural and dynamic drum kit sound as a solo instrument, but many fail as soon as they are supposed to be used for a complete mix in a powerful pop or rock production. This is precisely where many drum sample programs fail. The MT Power Drum Kit Sampler differs from other, expensive drum samplers in that we have already pre-processed the sounds with compressors and EQs to make them a perfect fit for any mix. Samples have been specially recorded and processed to make them ideally suited for use in pop, rock and metal productions. But if they don't, that's what "making music" is.The MT Power Drum Kit is a free drum sampler offering the powerful, high-quality sounds of an acoustic drum kit. If tools are falling short, yes you need new ones. In the end, anything you use are just tools to make whatever you've dreamt to come true. You can't believe how many top-chart albums out there using only digital stuff.
Of course playing live instruments is a good skill to have, but only as much as knowing how to program midi well. Anyone who tells you anything is "cheating" is most likely a failing show-offs that has no future in this industry. Using digital instruments is no cheating.
Whatever choice brings you to your desired target is valid. I haven’t made any music lately, what with the goat farming and all." I also think that is cheating, but I’m not sure where to go from here. I then thought that that was cheating too, so I grew my own goat from a baby goat. I then thought using premade skins was cheating, so I killed a goat and skinned it. I then thought using bought drums was cheating, so I learned to make my own. I then thought that programming it was cheating, so I learned to play drums for real.
I then thought using samples was cheating, so I recorded real drums. "I thought using loops was cheating, so I programmed my own using samples. I'm a composer, sound designer and engineer for the last 10 years and there's one quote that used to hang on my wall while I was working hard on countless projects: