There are many products on the market that allow you to add realistic acoustic drum kits to your virtual studio. These products offer something above and beyond simple one-shot samples of drum sounds with features such as:
- Multi-samples of expensive drum kits so that notes played at different velocities reflect the nuance of the real thing.
- Drum hits recorded with different sticks, brushes, mics and mic placements with the ability to mix between mics allowing you to tweak mic and room dynamics for each channel.
To help you get your mind around this concept and what's possible, checkout the videos below. The first two solutions are for Ableton Live and Propellerhead Reason and integrate directly into these applications. The third is for FXexpansion BFD 2 which is implemented as plug-in to be used with a host application such as Ableton Live, FL Studio, Logic, Cubase, etc.
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PROPELLERHEAD REASON DRUM KITS 2.0 REFILL
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An article with videos and links to three popular solutions for adding realistic drums sounds to your mix.
