In fact I'm spoilt for choice the only problem being there are sooooo many good kits and single instruments its a case of which one to use out of so many sounds that perform the job so well. Freakin' good value, such a great selection of kits, between these two I'll never have to worry about drum kits. As for drums I got the Slate EX and then later USDII group buy at $99 and havent looked back, all the drums I'll ever need. If they had of included an option to load a lite vs it would have helped.
I mean how big does a sample library have to be, Pre Bass is just riduculous in size and when it comes down to it I have a 20 meg sampled bass that does the job better, it was just a complete waste of cash for me. They sound great on the demo's but I know exactly what smata is talking about. I was almost tempted to take the plunge, but after experiencing Scarbee Pre Bass (another white elephant in my view) I was reluctant to spring for the NI drums. Good to get some feedback from someone using these kits. what's better than one crappy drum sample? 10K of crappy drums samples. abbey road drums are just another mammoth sized sample lib that is meant to impress by the sheer size of it alone, and it disappoints in the actually raw samples. there should be some natural ambiance to the original samples, and they do have some but whatever they did recording it sounds fake and artificial, and they try to compensate using fx. the crappy tinkering of the sound in the gui just washes out the sound of the drums and relying on the kontakt fx to provide ambiance is a big fail. having 35 velocity layers on drums is stupid, i play drums and *I* don't play 35 layers live. they should cut the velocity layers down to 8 max.
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i can feel my pc bog down when i load this pig.
despite having 4gb RAM, i don't want to devote a significant chunk of that to drums. The thing i hate about them is that suck up resources like nobody's business. this is also true of the NI pianos recently released, a sea of sameness, with overbearing poor production. the different libs (60's, 70's, 80's) might as well not even exist since they're so similar to each other that if you have one, you have them all, meaning the recording technique dominates the sound, not the sound of the drums themselves.
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while they sound ok (nothing great or extra ordinary) alone, when playing in the mix of a full arrangement they fade into the background, practically invisible. Abbey road drums are yet another sampling failure from native instruments, who ironically makes the best sampling software, yet the some of the worst sampling libraries.Ībbey road drums are just too big, some velocity layers go to 35 (i think) and they're more impressive (GUI) visually than sonically.