Topic: The Sidhe Drumkit Test

[Sidhe Priest]

Time for an alpha test. Anyone interested in trying it out? It's a 96/24 drumkit, either as a NI Battery 3 file, Reason NN-XT Refill or a standalone VSTI. The drumkit is GM/GS (not fully loaded yet, but the core and non-exotic percussion instruments are there).

[Kaiaatzl]

I'd be interested in trying the VSTI version.  Your instruments and soundfonts are generally high quality and fit well with my 'style', so...

[Sidhe Priest]

So far it's about 52 MBs compressed. You'll have to wait until the VSTI is compiled though... The native version is either NI Battery 3 or Reason 5 NN-XT Refill...

[Sidhe Priest]

Right, well, you will need the Kontakt player to try out the instrument. http://www.native-instruments.com/#/en/products/producer/kontakt-5-player/?page=2483 - it's a free download.

[Sidhe Priest]

This is what's in a General MIDI drumkit:

[General MIDI Drums]
35=Acoustic Bass Drum
36=Bass Drum 1
37=Side Stick
38=Acoustic Snare
39=Hand Clap
40=Electric Snare
41=Low Floor Tom
42=Closed Hi-Hat
43=High Floor Tom
44=Pedal Hi-Hat
45=Low Tom
46=Open Hi-Hat
47=Low-Mid Tom
48=Hi-Mid Tom
49=Crash Cymbal 1
50=High Tom
51=Ride Cymbal 1
52=Chinese Cymbal
53=Ride Bell
54=Tambourine
55=Splash Cymbal
56=Cowbell
57=Crash Cymbal 2
58=Vibraslap
59=Ride Cymbal 2
60=Hi Bongo
61=Low Bongo
62=Mute Hi Conga
63=Open Hi Conga
64=Low Conga
65=High Timbale
66=Low Timbale
67=High Agogo
68=Low Agogo
69=Cabasa
70=Maracas
71=Short Whistle
72=Long Whistle
73=Short Guiro
74=Long Guiro
75=Claves
76=High Woodblock
77=Low Woodblock
78=Mute Cuica
79=Open Cuica
80=Muted Triangle
81=Open Triangle

[Sidhe Priest]

The drumkit follows this definition. Unlike many Soundfont drumkits where you get only one bass kick and sometimes one and the same snare sample slightly pitch-shifted for acoustic/electric positions, here the snares and the bass kicks are separated in acoustic/electric. The first bass kick voice is a semi-dampened bass drum, the second is an analogue bass kick. The first snare is acoustic, the second is electro-style (though not quite TR-808, it's a kind of an "advanced" processed analogue-generated snare).

[Sidhe Priest]

Demos:

Details

- acoustic kick, analogue hi-hat, electric snare, analogue kick, toms.

Details

- analogue kick, triangle, claves, analogue hi-hats, electric snare, huge china cymbal. All these samples in the drumkit are 96/24.

Details

- analogue kick, acoustic snare, toms, acoustic kick.