Garage Rock MIDI Pack?

[snowdiver]

Uhm … maybe I’m the only one who wants this, maybe not …

I’d pay $30 for a fill pack of basic fills. Super simple fills. I’ve got Basic Rock, Americana, Songwriter’s Fillpack, Rock Solid–all of them get too good, too fast. I end up only using the the first few in each category, because they get technical pretty quickly. A MIDI pack with simple, but creative, fills would very much interest me. Something that could liven up verse and chorus grooves, without jumping out and saying “Hey, Drummer Here!”

Does anybody else see any value here? You could, perhaps, call it Garage Rock!

(Also, on an unrelated note, but I don’t want to open a thread for this, I’d pay for the MIDI’s that come with Latin Percussion. I’ve Upgraded from Superiorer 1.x and still have the percussion library–I have a feeling the MIDI library that comes with the EZX “Latin Percussion” would play nicely with that sound set).

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[zeeb]

….couldnt agree more SnowDiver — got SDrmmr last week and love it. its AMA-ZING. I’m still experimenting w/ all the options, but yeh – finding some classic (simple) fills is hard to come by. i’m so not into the muso stuff. I also got the Twisted Kit – i like how its arr. by verse, chorus, breakdown etc…

I’m gonna ask a friend to play/write some midi-files w/ his Roland kit – if/we i can get it together, I’ll give you a shout. what would be yr favorites? I was thinkin 60s garage-rock style frm psyche-era Sonics to Stooges up to W.Stripes/Black Keys….

god if someone could get together some Keith Moon / Spy-Swamp-LinkWray drms I’d be all over that.

cheers J

[snowdiver]

Yeah … I think you might know what I’m talking about.  White Stripes might be a little too simple–but it’s in the ballpark.  I’m not a drummer, so I don’t know how to correctly describe the techniques, but alot of these MIDI packs quickly get into ghost strokes and wild fills that are all over the kit.  The type of drums that come to mind are all over Social Distortion albums (it doesn’t seem to matter which drummer Mike Ness has behind him, they all manage to work).  Just some nice kick/snare fills, plain snare fills, then on the more technical end of the spectrum, a few toms added.  Just straight-forward, no frills, rock drums. 

[wagzisnotadrummer]

+1

[Davide Pagano]

if you need “Super simple fills” why don’t you make them by yourself? Either from scratch or by removing some notes form other Toontrack fills. This is trivial in any daw.

[Jay Coover]

ORIGINAL: snowdiver
The type of drums that come to mind are all over Social Distortion albums (it doesn’t seem to matter which drummer Mike Ness has behind him, they all manage to work).  Just some nice kick/snare fills, plain snare fills, then on the more technical end of the spectrum, a few toms added.  Just straight-forward, no frills, rock drums. 

The Brooks Wackerman MIDI from Platinum Samples comes mapped for TT.

http://www.platinumsamples.com/ps/BrooksWackermanGrooves.php

This is in your ballpark. If you get only one of the two packs, get the “songs” pack instead of the “grooves” pack. It features simpler grooves, as you mention.

SD 2.3 NY vol 2/Metal Foundry/C & V/Roots 1 & 2/Music City Latin Percussion/Funkmasters/The Classic/Jazz/Pop!/#1 Hits/Electronic/Twisted/Claustrophobic EZKeys 1.1 with all the trimmings

[zeeb]

agreed Snowdriver. heard some cool drum fills/playin (as sample loops not midi) over at looploft. shame they werent midi.

yeh dr4kan ‘…if you need “Super simple fills” why don’t you make them by yourself?..’ and a few days later it happened – i got to super-simple fills level.

cheers for the midi link fizbin. will checkit out

…still on the learn curve, and S2 is still blowing my mind.

J.

[snowdiver]

Typically, editing the Toontrack ones is what I do. Or, I play them with a drum pad (one of those 4-pad deals that are velocity sensitive)–but, then I have to quantize my poor timing which basically defeats the purpose. This would just save the time and preserve the subtle nuances of the fill actually being performed that way.

I took a quick look at the link fizbin provided–and this might be something I need to look into. It never occurred to me to look for 3rd party files (though, strangely, that’s the first thing I did when I bought EZ Keys).

BTW S2 is amazing! I’ve got an old band mate who HATES computer drums (well we all do, don’t we?) and suddenly, after switching to S2, he’s on board. The dang things sound soo convincing!

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