Drum Software

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Is there any such thing as a drum machine software that's any good for country music? I have FruityLoops and hear it's suppose to be good, and mabe i just don't know how to use it"
I can get a decent sound but the rythm beat just isn't very realistic" heck the bass player can just barely fight to stay in time with it :( can't get any "swing" to it or something :(
 
I'm interested in this as well.

Fruity loops on my roomate's computer is not the easiest to use in my opinion. Someone said PC Drummer is good and easy, but I dont know anyone who has used it or what it sounds like.
 
PC Drummer

I havn't tried PC Drummer but i may give it a shot..Live musicians trying to play along with a dum program is breaking them out in hives LOL! Need something with a more "natural" feel to it..
 
Use DR-008 with Drumkit From Hell... sounds real, and it can play back whatever you put into it....
 
PC Drummer Pro is the one. I have Fruity Loops and dozens of other drum programs. I tried them all. PC Drummer Pro is not as professionally polished as the others. It is $55.00 and downloaded. However, it beats the crap out of everything I have ever used. The Pro version allows you to build your own drumkits using wav samples. I have collected literally thousands of great high quality samples from the net. PC Drummer Pro is excellent period.

I don't sell or work for the company. I am just a guitar player who needs a good drum program. PC is it!
 
Battery by Native Instruments
or
AO DK1
both sound as good as the samples u load into it
 
...or, as I stated in another post :

This guy is writing a FREE drum program, and is very open to suggestions, so take a look here :

http://www.bargmann.dk/dude
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How is that better than Fruity though? It looks way more complicated, and much less powerful.

Fruity still pretty much kicks ass. All I can say is, being able to program patterns using either a pattern editor or a piano roll (as you do in Fruity) are pretty much the way it's done with every program. Learning those two things will translate over to 99% of MIDI sequencing programs, as well as most drum machines... I also use Fruity to program drums using soundfonts (for slightly more realistic drums) or to control Battery (in my opinion the best affordable drum sampler: Kontakt is better, but much more expensive).
 
I didn't say it was better... but it's going to be free, AND it's in development, so suggestions will be taken seriously...
I agree, that Fruity + Battery is extremely powerful, but the features I love about that combo (velocity-ranges, easy pattern-edit and so on) are the ones being implemented in the Dude-editor....
 
i luv "free" :) and fruity has no equal IMHO...for the $ anyway...
 
Has anyone tried Sonic Foundry Acid for doing drums with samples? How does it compare with, say, Fruity Loops?
 
I've just started using Acid as a way to get a live drum sound. The interface is real easy to use, but it'll take a little while to get to grips with the more advanced side of the program. The time stretching can be a little hit and miss, especially below 80 bpm.

I'm recording rock stuff and using live drum samples is by far the best sound you'll get. I think so anyway. I would say its better than micing up a kit as all the samples are pro recorded. Getting hold of those samples is the hard part, but once you have something you like you can slice the beats up. I'm using samples from my Drag and Drop Drummer CD and i can pretty much design my own loops.

I also have a SR16 that I love, it does'nt come close to Acid (with the right samples). You might also want to try out a program called Drums!. No one seems to have mentioned that. It's the most realistic drum software i've heard. Very easy to use.
 
I use Fruity With the addition of Real drum Samples from Sample Fussion These samples are the most natural sounding drum samples I have used Try using the shift function on the secquencer to get that swing you are looking for I hope this helps you out.

Gary Davis
 
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i build tracks on FL then double them in acid and offset one track just a millisec forward or back and get pretty wicked results, if you know what your doing you can build two tracks and set the timing to sync with eack other, ad a few cym, toms etc here and there... absolutely amazing... makes fantastic double base metal samples. good drum rolls are also possible using two tracks...
 
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