Need drums.. Software recomendation?

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Hello,
I am using Cubase SX3. I'm looking for an easy way to program decent sounding drum tracks for my demos. So I have something as a guiding template to give the prospective drummer to learn a song. Im looking for something efficient so it doesnt take all night, and very user friendly. Realistic noises are good to. Any suggestions?

Thanks so much!
 
I haven't used it much, but FXpansion's BFD seemed pretty cool. Good sounds, lots of patterns to use for quick drum track making, and you can feed it MIDI for specific stuff.
 
toontrack ezdrummer is easy, childsplay,
lots of samples

but stereo outputs

so its amateur in my opinion, but great if you just want to play along with guitar or so

not the most stable app i used but fun
 
whats wrong with stereo outputs? As apposed to surround? I do mostly acoustic rock stuff, I dont generally take advantage of 5.1 or anything. I actually went out and got EZ drummer last night been fooling around with it. Seems nice, but I cant seem to drag more than 1 measure over at a time.
 
Stereo outputs opposed to individual outs for each piece of the kit, for example a kick out, snare out, hat outs, oh l&r, etc....so you can mix them like you've recorded an actual drumkit.
 
BFD is great. I have it and I especially can't wait until BFD 2.0 hits. It's supposed to be killer and crush anything available.
 
Hard2Hear said:
Stereo outputs opposed to individual outs for each piece of the kit, for example a kick out, snare out, hat outs, oh l&r, etc....so you can mix them like you've recorded an actual drumkit.
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As far as I can tell thats not really an issue.. You can control all of the set with the mixer in EZdrummer, and in fact the instrument channels I can control with my daw controller. So i can essentially control everything independently in cubase. If you want to preserve them in a wav form you could just output each channel separately into there own track so then you can control the volumes/effects individually for each drum/overhead/room mic. You smell what im cooking?
 
Myriad_Rocker said:
I am. I love it. You should buy it.
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BFD2 is a stand alone app right? But you can use it as a plugin?

The manual is pretty involved, but that just shows the tool has a lot of capability.

You have any samples of your work?

Thanks!
 
therage! said:
BFD2 is a stand alone app right? But you can use it as a plugin?

The manual is pretty involved, but that just shows the tool has a lot of capability.

You have any samples of your work?

Thanks!
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It can be a stand alone app. The new one even lets you create the entire drum part within itself and export the separate drum wavs so you can import them into a DAW. It also has its own mixer with presets for compression, EQ, fx, etc. Without going into too much detail, it's quite the powerful tool. It's head and shoulders above anything else out there. And yes, it can be used as a plugin as well.

The manual needs to be detailed because the program is very feature rich.

There are plenty of demo works available on the fxpansion site. And you can also find some on their forums. I don't have any current works that use BFD2 (just BFD 1.5), but I'm working on some.
 
I use ezdrummer with sx3, its real easy. As for individual tracks, you get a kick, snare top, snare bottom, hihat, toms (stereo), overheads (stereo), room mics (stereo). All you are missing is toms on there seperate tracks, which for the past 5 years I've constantly found myself sending all the tom mics to a stereo buss for processing....here it's done for you.

Superior 2.0 is due to be released next month I think, more kits, more routing options, bigger, better, faster, cheaper......
 
i highly recommend Addictive Drums over ezdrummer. the price is a lot more reasonable for one. and its a much easier thing to work with in mixing, maybe not quite as large or detail oriented in their samples (no mic bleed-through samples - who needs this? synthetic mic bleed?) but a very decent sample library, and a really useful set of effects like distortion, pitchshift, envelope filters, reverb, etc. than ezdrummer offers. also, some of the preset kits are actually cool and very creative.

if you like cocktail drums, or you need a really realistic ludwig black beauty snare, fine. but if you need quick and easy loud, often compressed, sometimes distorted pop/rock drum tracks, you will get a lot more interesting kits out of addictive drums than you'll ever get out of ezdrummer and their half-dozen lame expansion kits.
 
Do you need a midi input for BFD or can you program with keyboard/mouse? I know with EZDrummer you can just use your mouse. Seeing as how I have no midi equipment yet (just starting to record, and I'm freakin' broke), I'd need something that I don't need midi input for.
 
I'm a HUGE fan of Reason Drum Kits 2.0.

But that would require an investment in Reason, and RDK2, not to mention learning Reason. Then again, Reason is a pretty handy software to know how to use!
 
About ExDrummer and DFH...am i missing something? Everywhere i look it says it's been "discontinued". I can't even find it on Amazon.
 
I just bought AD...you should check out the website.
 
floppsybunny said:
i highly recommend Addictive Drums over ezdrummer. the price is a lot more reasonable for one. and its a much easier thing to work with in mixing, maybe not quite as large or detail oriented in their samples (no mic bleed-through samples - who needs this? synthetic mic bleed?) but a very decent sample library, and a really useful set of effects like distortion, pitchshift, envelope filters, reverb, etc. than ezdrummer offers. also, some of the preset kits are actually cool and very creative.

if you like cocktail drums, or you need a really realistic ludwig black beauty snare, fine. but if you need quick and easy loud, often compressed, sometimes distorted pop/rock drum tracks, you will get a lot more interesting kits out of addictive drums than you'll ever get out of ezdrummer and their half-dozen lame expansion kits.
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:) I'm using AD and lovin' it.
 
Hard2Hear said:
Stereo outputs opposed to individual outs for each piece of the kit, for example a kick out, snare out, hat outs, oh l&r, etc....so you can mix them like you've recorded an actual drumkit.
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In EZDrummer you can actually swich whitch output you want for each drum. There are like 9 tracks but 8 stereo outs. And at the bottom on the mixer it says what track you want it to go out onto, and you can pick 1-8. And you can also put EQ or Comp or whateer plugins you want on each track.
 
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