Hey guys..Looking to get a cool drum software to record some tuneage with. Kinda in the SHUGGAH/DT/shred vein. Would you reccomend Addictive Drums, or EZ DRUMMER w DKFH EXP pack? Any reviews, ideas are greatly appreciated!
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Cool.....another option would be to accumulate some drum samples and do my own stuff in fruity Loops!Addictive Drums sound a lot more natural to my ear, and they do metal fairly well. I've heard people get great sounds out of EZD w/ DFH as well, but I could never do it myself.
If you were talking about dfhs or s2.0, i'd say go that way, but personally between ezd and AD I like the addictive drums much more, even though theyre not as "metal."
Most people would probably recommend DFH stuff for meshug sounding stuff.
Cool man..another option to look into. In reality its not bad...GC has AD for $200 now.I've had great results using a combo of the two.
Like, I use the loops from DKFH mostly as my starting point, and will edit them from there. From a metal stand point, DKFH has much more to work with out of the box.
however, I love the sound of Addictive Drums, and the tweakability as well.
So, what works for me is I do alll my initial tracking in Ableton Live 7. I'll have DKFH running on one channel, and AD on another. Once I've made my drum arrangement in DKFH, I consolidate the MIDI track, than feed it into a MIDI Mapping program (this takes all of 5 seconds, really), and convert it to AD MIDI. Now...heres where it gets tricky....AD doesnt allow for as many cymbals as DKFH, thus some of your cymbal work will be compromised or gone completey. Don't fret! What I do, is I than run AD just for my shell kit (bass, snare, and toms) and turn off the cymbals. I than do the reverse for DKFH. So than I have one MIDI track doing my cymbal work, and one doing the rest of the kit, thus getting the best of both programs!
Sounds alot trickier and more complicated than it really is...but this is working really well for me. I gotta say, making the move from DKFH to AD really opened up my mixes, and added some nice punch and power in the rhythm section that I felt EZD was lacking. EZD/DKFH is almost TOO clean and precise sounding. I don't really play the uber-technical type of metal thats so common these days (more of a mix of german thrash, early 90's american death metal, black metal, and ambient gothic/doom type stuff. Hell, theres even some industrial going on at times....I'm kinda weird), so that wasn't really jiving w/ my mixes overall mojo. This, will of course vary from artist to artist. Just be creative, and don't be afraid to do unconventional stuff to get what you need.
Cool man..another option to look into. In reality its not bad...GC has AD for $200 now.
Thats not very time consuming AT ALL in fruity loops.totally worth the $$$ IMO. Plus the XLN boards got tons of info and downloadable user kits that are actually really good.
I just love the fact that I can do things like adjust individual compression, EQ, etc. for each seperate peice of the kit in realtime. It makes ALL the difference, and the sonic possibilities are endless. You could do this EZD as well...BUT you'd have to bounce each peice of the kit down to it's own channel on your DAW for individual editing....not impossible, or all that difficult even, but time consuming. VERY time consuming.
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