Drum SoftwareChoices?

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Hi Gang...

Been looking for Drum software for the home studio, looked at Groove Agent,
Addictive Drums, and both look great. Read some posts last night here and heard about DFHS and a couple others, makes it even more confusing.:confused:

If it helps I have Pro Tools LE, my songs are in the vein of Rush, Zep, Who, Floyd, Stones so looping kinda things wont do, I want natural sounding stuff, and "human" too, I saw a setting in Groove Agent that I toyed with a couple years back that let you "humanize" the sound, introducing near misses and things. Thought that was VERY cool. Do all the software packages do this?

Not looking for free stuff, see most of these packges run $250'ish

Help!! Drowning in info!!!

Steve
 
guitarplayr said:
Hi Gang...

Been looking for Drum software for the home studio, looked at Groove Agent,
Addictive Drums, and both look great. Read some posts last night here and heard about DFHS and a couple others, makes it even more confusing.:confused:

If it helps I have Pro Tools LE, my songs are in the vein of Rush, Zep, Who, Floyd, Stones so looping kinda things wont do, I want natural sounding stuff, and "human" too, I saw a setting in Groove Agent that I toyed with a couple years back that let you "humanize" the sound, introducing near misses and things. Thought that was VERY cool. Do all the software packages do this?

Not looking for free stuff, see most of these packges run $250'ish

Help!! Drowning in info!!!

Steve
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The software that will give you the capability for developing the most realistic sounding drum tracks is DFHS, hands down. DHFS has a humanizer, different samples for left and right hand (as well as feet) hits, and the samples are not preprocessed (meaning no compression or digital effects added, just raw drums). However, all this comes with an interface that leaves a lot to be desired. In addition, the technical support flat out sucks so be prepared to rely on the user community for help. Nonetheless, once you get the hang of the software you will get some sweet sounding drum tracks. I will say I trigger these samples with a E-drum kit via MIDI which gives you real human feel with high quality samples. That's about as good as it gets without.
 
I have both DFHS, and Ez-drummer...I like them both, depending on what I am looking for in sound.
 
There are a lot of cool options for drum software out now.. but I got to admit I'm pretty excited about the new one we got cooking..

www.stevenslatedrums.com/twoinfo.html

Right now I personally use EZ Drummer and replace the kick and snare with the SSD stuff via drumagog.. works for now. I wish I could play and record my real kit but I'm in an apt and my neighbors have 4 young kids who are in bed by like 7PM. I know, it sucks.

Joel
 
BFD!

Best thing ive used so far (i have ALOT of software).
 
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