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[rentadrummer]

You can go to the mapping window in S2, highlight the snare drum, choose select all, and try different combinations of velocity curves to find the one that works best for you.

[rentadrummer]

I have the preset and was going to upload it but I get a message saying the file type is unsupported. Since it’s not a gif, txt or jpg, I’m not sure if I can post it or not.

[rentadrummer]

Can’t believe this thread came alive again.

I played around with this preset when I first got it and I really didn’t think it sounded anything like the kit in the video. If I remember correctly it was also missing one of the toms and crashes, so it makes me wonder how accurate it is, and how much processing was done outside of S2. To me, the pitch of the hi hats in the video is so different from the stock 16″ hats included in the Allaire kit, that at first I thought it was possible NirZ might have used some hi hats from one of the other kits as an xdrum, but that wouldn’t make sense if it’s a video that’s supposed to be showcasing the sounds of Allaire.

If John no longer has the file, I can find it and upload it, so you can hear it for yourselves.

[rentadrummer]

ORIGINAL: santa claus

One final point to get the rant out of my system is that there is only one good ride in all the libraries, the dry ride in the Avatar library (can’t remember its exact name). Strange that this one is the only one that sounds great out of all those rides available in all the libraries. All the rest are either too washy, or sound flat and like they are hit with a drumstick with a broken wooden tip. More “vinyl tip” sounds, please. Some attack and clarity is sorely needed.

Rant over.

That pretty much sums up my feelings. I like everything about S2 and the various expansions I own, except for the selection of ride cymbals. I’ve gone back to one of the rides from the Nashville EZDrummer expansion, which has much more definition and I always used before I got S2. I’m just not sure that I’ve been successful at getting the ambience to match when using it as an Xdrum with the Allaire kit.

[rentadrummer]

If you have a MIDI file playing a crescendo on the Ride, or any instrument, you can try using the same file and mapping it to play a crash cymbal.

[rentadrummer]

I found that increasing the Hi Hat Offset from the one set automatically by the TD-20 also helps produce a tighter hi hat sound.

Press Trigger
Press Hi Hat
Raise Hi Hat Offset until you hear a tighter sound when striking the hi hat and the pedal is depressed

[rentadrummer]

Even if you knew they were 14″ Zildjian hi hats or whatever, and found the same size and brand sampled in one of the S2 kits, they could still sound completely different from those you hear on the record. You can line up 10 pairs of 14″ Zildjian hi hats and no two pair would necessarily sound alike. I can speak from experience having spent a lifetime in various music stores auditioning cymbals. That’s not to say you can’t find something in one of the expansions that sounds like what you’re looking for, but there’s no guarantee that matching the name will have anything to do with the end result you’re looking for. It’s probably just a good place from which to start the search.

[rentadrummer]

Thanks! You da man!

[rentadrummer]

I don’t use a different cable because I still play rim shots, but I want them to produce the head sound. There’s another thread where I asked if Nir Z might have done the same thing in the video that’s shown for the New York Studios Volume 2 expansion, or remapped S2, because I don’t hear any rim sounds when he plays. To me it sounds like the higher velocities produced by the head sound, which I prefer.

[rentadrummer]

The only remapping that I found necessary was to change the snare rim to play the head sound, so both head and rim trigger the same sound, a couple of crashes because they were playing the same notes, and two toms since I like to use the 10″, 12″, 14″ and 16″. I don’t know why that would be detrimental or cause compatibility issues. Are we talking about the same thing?

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