pewterbird99
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I noticed no one has really put up a review of Drums on Demand yet, so I figured I would take the liberty of doing it. I just purchased Drums on Demand about a week a go after much debate over the price. I play mostly a rock style so I couldn't settle for anything less than the Upbeat and Aggresive package which is volume 3 (and $79.95 at that). Before I had actually programmed most of my drum beats using FL Studio and single hits. I was hoping when I got Drums on Demand I could go back into some of the songs and work in some new beats.
When I first started playing with DoD I realized that they are not as versitle as I wanted them to be. Granted there are over 1200 loops but once you wipe out most of them due to the tempo of your song you are left with only about 40 loops. From there, there are only about 4 versions of a verse, with a few fills, about 4 versions of a chorus and so on. So the downside of drums on demand is the lack of versitility.
Another thing about the versatility is that sometimes you may want to jump into a half time chorus or have a cool pause in the middle of the last chorus, or something like that. It is very hard to find anything that will work out perfectly with what you can imagine up.
Some of the plus sides of DoD though is the quality of the recordings. These drums no doubt sound great. The sound very thick in a recording. I didn't know how bad my old drums actually sounded until I had these in the back.
Another plus of DoD is the loop layers. I was making a song the other day and I found that I liked a certain beat, but it on used the hi hat to keep time. I needed that beat for the chorus and it just didn't hit very hard with only the hi hat. I decided to run a low pass filter over the loop and shave off a little top end to kinda kill the hit hat and then I used a Crash loop layer to make the beat sound stronger. It worked out pretty cool.
These loops also work together seemlessly. After putting them together it's hard to tell that they are loops.
Overall I think that DoD is a great product especially for the quality but when it comes to versatility nothing beats having a real drummer that can change with you.
When I first started playing with DoD I realized that they are not as versitle as I wanted them to be. Granted there are over 1200 loops but once you wipe out most of them due to the tempo of your song you are left with only about 40 loops. From there, there are only about 4 versions of a verse, with a few fills, about 4 versions of a chorus and so on. So the downside of drums on demand is the lack of versitility.
Another thing about the versatility is that sometimes you may want to jump into a half time chorus or have a cool pause in the middle of the last chorus, or something like that. It is very hard to find anything that will work out perfectly with what you can imagine up.
Some of the plus sides of DoD though is the quality of the recordings. These drums no doubt sound great. The sound very thick in a recording. I didn't know how bad my old drums actually sounded until I had these in the back.
Another plus of DoD is the loop layers. I was making a song the other day and I found that I liked a certain beat, but it on used the hi hat to keep time. I needed that beat for the chorus and it just didn't hit very hard with only the hi hat. I decided to run a low pass filter over the loop and shave off a little top end to kinda kill the hit hat and then I used a Crash loop layer to make the beat sound stronger. It worked out pretty cool.
These loops also work together seemlessly. After putting them together it's hard to tell that they are loops.
Overall I think that DoD is a great product especially for the quality but when it comes to versatility nothing beats having a real drummer that can change with you.
