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[Jay Coover]

Just drove by there tonight on the way back from a play in Ballard.

Must own the drums…

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[Jay Coover]

Funny. I used to live about a block from where this was recorded.

I guess I’ll have to get it. Oh, sounds great too!

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[Jay Coover]

Check out audiodeluxe or time+space. They’re generally lower there.

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[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.

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[Jay Coover]

ORIGINAL: tombuur

Now the next thing simply has to be a B3. I can’t imagine they will sample a harpsicord or some other ridiculous keyboard instrument.

Alternatively give me a midi output from EZKeys to drive any synth/sampler. Yes, that would bypass the compulsary Toontrack instruments and then we might not buy the Rhodes from them etc. So it will never happen. I could, of course, just use the chord track in Cubase or Rapidcomposer, but none of these does such a good job of interpreting and transposing midi tracks as EZKeys does.

Hmmm…with the recent releaese of the funk MIDI, I’m longing for a Hohner Clavinet. Might work with a B3 as well.

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[Jay Coover]

ORIGINAL: fizbin

I’d like to see a B3 as well, but I think that may come later if at all, for these reasons:

1. The existing MIDI is more likely to work with an electric piano like a Rhodes or a Wurlitzer than with a B3. Organ playing style is another step removed from traditional piano. I’d expect to see a Rhodes or a Wurly before a B3.
2. Emulating a B3 is much more complex than emulating a piano or electric piano. Many more variables, though I’m sure TT are up to the task.

This is just my guess and may ultimately bear very little resemblance to reality.

I’m like…psychic, right?

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[Jay Coover]

ORIGINAL: trommeltotti

Dear Toontrack Team, did you ever think about drummers which using your famous software in realtime on stage? They will never use such big 27″ monitors on stage close to the drumset! Sorry for this. Sometimes maybe one 15″ Laptop. But a professional solution this days means one real fast desktop PC with High End Audio-Interface gear fitted in a special 3HE 19″ Computer enclosure inside one 19″ stable road case. So in consequence less is more on stage! No keyboard, no mouse just one 10″ industrial touch screen to control Superior Drummer!

In this scenario, for a dedicated onstage screen for Superior, you should lower the resolution, making things appear larger.

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[Jay Coover]

Or you could make EZPlayer Pro a cheap Reason Rack extension. There must be a revenue stream here somewhere, now with all that MIDI.

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[Jay Coover]

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[Jay Coover]

Good find. This thread will self-destruct in five seconds.

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[Jay Coover]

Melodic instruments are outside the realm of what EXD and SD are about. Steel drums are a bad fit for this product because they are not functioning in the context of percussion. They are melody.

You might as well ask for a vibraphone or piano SDX. There are other plug-ins that tackle the intracacies of those instruments better than trying to cram them into SD.

My 2 cents.

Would still love to see an Ethnic/World SDX. No disagreement there.

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[Jay Coover]

Steel drums are going to be impossible to provide MIDI for. It’s a melodic instrument.

Still I’m all in for an Ethnic Percussion SDX.

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[Jay Coover]

+1, except an SDX

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[Jay Coover]

Thanks for the tip wagz, just picked up that Reggae MIDI along with the Latin MIDI. My quick assessment, the Platinum Samples Reggae MIDI is a little more comprehensive than the Oddgrooves Reggae MIDI, but there isn’t so much overlap that it’s not worth having both. Fairly different takes between the two libraries on the Reggae genre.

I’m glad I have both, but if I had to pick only one it would be the Platinum Samples MIDI.

FYI – the Platinum Samples Reggae MIDI also comes with a combined preset for both the Avatar and the EZDrummer Pop/Rock kit. Tried it out and it was OK, but I’d probably be more inclined to roll my own…which would be apropos for the genre, eh?

fizbin

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[Jay Coover]

I agree with jdahl. Actually might sell more copies of SD if it could be used in this way or came with a trigger plug-in. Just a filter and a gate on the source, convert that amplitude to MIDI velocity, done, right?

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