Cubase 5 package drums

[awilliams]

I'm considering buying the basic version of Cubase 5 (not 32) and wonder what kind of drum machine is included with the basic software. I heard the LM-9 is included. Is this decent for authentic drum sounds?

[Seanmorse79]

In my opinion, no. It's cheeeeeesyy. There may be some out there that have more luck with it than I did, but I lost my patience and went back to the ol' Zoom 234. I have yet to see a really good software drum machine that can produce an authentic sounding drum track.

[nattn]

The LM9 does have a cheesy "beatbox" drumset. The acoustic set isn't too bad if you punch up the sound with some compression & reverb. Don't let that dissuade you from getting cubase though. I'm sure that initially you will find the LM-9 useful. The LM-4 on the other hand is a very good soft drum kit that you can add on to cubase as a vst instrument. KVR Resources has a bunch of banks for the LM-4 that sound quite good, plus you have the ability with the LM4 to create banks using your own samples.

[Alchemist3k]

Yes the standard Cubase drums are very basic. Only two banks - accoustic and beat box. They sound ok. I hardly use them but a friend got some great results with the standard kit by applying lots of FX to them etc.

Buy the Woldorf Attack or the LM4 becuase these sound much better and both have the ability to import samples so you could buy smaple CDs of really well recorded and good sounding kits.