Listen to samples

Finally, after weeks of messing around doing silly unrelated things like accounts and making sure I have enough money to live, I've got some demos to go here.

To start with, here's a couple of quick demonstrations of the two sample sets I currently get the most mileage out of - Drumkit from Hell Superior and my own kit.

DfHS is available from Toontrack, and is an excellent and comprehensively set-up package of about 35gb of samples, albeit with some software that takes a little getting used to.

My drum kit sampling, on the other hand, is a home-made affair with considerably less time, expertise and expensive gear dedicated to its construction. However it does have some nice features (many of which are still being worked on in terms of cutting up and mapping) which are very drummer-friendly, including allowing me to choose where I want to hit the drum and with which part of the stick. The drums you're hearing here in the demo are the ones you can see in pictures and videos dotted around this site. The kit was bought 2nd-hand from Drumtech in London while I was studying there, and it is a Yamaha Recording Custom decked out with a whole bunch of Zildjian and Istanbul cymbals (well, just the one Istanbul to be precise), LP and Tama percussion and Yamaha and Ayotte snare drums.

Drumkit from Hell Superior demos

Demo #1 - A slightly hip-hop/R&B influenced thing with a slightly latin-y ending.

Set Creative "DrumSet" demos

Demo #1 - A washy open hi-hat shuffle followed by another latin part, this time with a cascara part on a woodblock

Coming soon...

More demos will be forthcoming shortly, in a variety of styles. I'll be dropping in some funk, jazz, metal, punk and rock beats soon, along with some more relaxed stuff that might suit you acoustic people out there. I will also be adding demos for other sample sets in time, with the next two you can expect being NSKit Free and BFD (hopefully to be followed soon by BFD-XFL).

Please note that both DfHS and BFD offer a very wide range of different drums, as does my kit to an extent. As such it's possible to achieve very good results in almost any style using any of them, although each kit does have its strong points and weaker aspects. As such these demos shouldn't be taken complete or comprehensive with respect to the range of sounds that can be achieved - that would take more space than I can afford the hosting for!