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I'm looking for drum sounds (even a few good snares, kicks and toms would be nice), just to practice a bit with the midi triggering stuff we talked about in the vocal thread. Do any of you know of any free sound banks I could download (from a mildly reputable source, if possible)? Thanks!
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Natural Studio were quite good and I got their first set when it was free then bought subsequent sets. They are now sold through someone else, but check out the samples. I don't know what the prices are now. Used to be very cheep.

I have a bunch of other sound source links here.
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roymond wrote:Natural Studio were quite good and I got their first set when it was free then bought subsequent sets. They are now sold through someone else, but check out the samples. I don't know what the prices are now. Used to be very cheep.

I have a bunch of other sound source links here.
Yeah, I had already checked out Natural Drum Studio - it's about 130 bucks now. I'll check out your musicnotes page ... see if I can find anything there. Thanks a lot! :)

EDIT: So far, I'm not finding much drum-related stuff, but that anagram page is awesome! Maybe I can find a suitable band name now. :)
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I remember when NSKit was free. Jeeze.
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Some free ones I've tried:

Maestro Rock Kit
Hard Rocker's Drumkit

The Maestro one sounds better but is less extensive. Neither is wonderful but they ain't bad.

Just had a look at this: G&S Custom Work Drum kit Sample Library 1.0. Seems very good. But it's big (350Megs or so) and comes as a set of WAV samples and SFZ index files. The VST soundfont reader that I use, VSTSynthFont, supports sf2 but not sfz. Because I can only try it via a few workarounds, I'm not sure if the index files make use of all the available samples.
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I believe I still have the NSkit in its ORIGINAL entirety... I.E. from when I first downloaded it.

I'm busy but maybe on Sunday I'll find somewhere to upload it. (assuming I still ACTUALLY have it, I'm pretty sure its still on my Studio HD)

Those drums are great and you can EQ them to make em' even better. Both left and right handed snare hits...different amounts of pressure... etc...
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I'm starting to think that I'll try drum triggers thing for a songfight. I don't think I'd use triggers on an album though ... that just seems cheap to me.

ps - Thanks plainsongs and Hoblit. When I've got some time (maybe sunday), I'll try to dig into this stuff.
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