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That sounds a lot like my mobile setup except I have a 2009 MBP with Metal Foundry and AT2 and a couple of other softsynths like Alchemy and Sonik Synth2. Works fine mostly but can be a bit low on RAM with the larger kits, so there is usually some bouncing and freezing going on.

Per

MIDI http://www.oddgrooves.com/ for EZdrummer and Superior Drummer at http://www.oddgrooves.com Lots of free MIDI!

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ORIGINAL: boobleay

@dthgtr – I’ve already picked up the Power Rock pack from Groove Monkee and I was a little surprised to find that there were only 12 main grooves to work with.  Granted, each has a number of variations for different parts of a song, but the base of grooves it gives me to work with is not that substantial.  Is that also the case for the Progressive pack… and how does this compare to the packs from Oddgrooves in terms of size?

One more question, for anyone who might know – someone I was collaborating with a while ago gave me a reaper project file and the drum beat is the kind of thing I’m looking for.  It’s a series of midi grooves and the titles are formatted like this:

“3-4 Straight Beat 004 – 4th HH Open (Clean) >PopRock – 3-4 Straight Beat 004 – _V_ 4th HH Open (Clean) _C_ PopRock.mid”

Anybody know what midi library this is from?

Hi, Per from OddGrooves here!

First of all: The 3/4 MIDI beats you refer to are from the standard library that comes with Addictive Drums. I recognize the file format.

Can’t speak for Groove Monkee obviously. Our “older” packs (Basic, Advanced & Crazy Drumming plus FourFour 1&2) contain shorter grooves that you piece together into a drum track. In terms of size there are between 700 and 1800 grooves to work with in those packs. Our newer packs (Westcoast and Reggae drumming) are made of different verses, choruses, intros, outros etc – not variations but completely different drum tracks. In those there are less files, but the loops are a LOT longer. And then we have two packs with only fills. Much of our stuff is in the progressive genre, but the FourFour packs also have some heavier grooves. No dedicated metal pack, though. Yet

We have a free sample pack available and also a full money-back guarantee.

Hope this helps!

Cheers,
Per

MIDI http://www.oddgrooves.com/ for EZdrummer and Superior Drummer at http://www.oddgrooves.com Lots of free MIDI!

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ORIGINAL: Scott

I really like the longer grooves in this set. 12-16 bars. You really get a live feel with these as opposed to piecing together a bunch of 1-2 bar grooves. Nice.

Thanks Scott. We will be doing much more of the longer grooves in future MIDI packs.

It’s also easier to work with when you’re in songwriting mode and don’t want to spend too much time on the drum tracks.

Per

MIDI http://www.oddgrooves.com/ for EZdrummer and Superior Drummer at http://www.oddgrooves.com Lots of free MIDI!

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ORIGINAL: Scott

The demos sounded great…I bought ’em.

Sounds great with the new Music City SDX too!

PS Just tried the grooves with Platinum Samples Evil Drums…wicked!

Thanks Scott!

I’m going to try them with Music City SDX as soon as I get that one.

And as for the metal kits, I played around a little with Metal Foundry and some of the shuffle grooves – and it worked way better than I would have thought. I don’t have Evil Drums yet but I guess I’d better get that one too

Cheers,
Per

MIDI http://www.oddgrooves.com/ for EZdrummer and Superior Drummer at http://www.oddgrooves.com Lots of free MIDI!

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