GuitarHacker - Session Drummer 2 ???

yeah, I picked it up...the price was a steal and it helps pay some salaries up in Boston.... I heard they need the stimulus....

I opened it up in MC4 and played with it a bit... the sounds were OK.... I really have not done too much with it.

However, I'm just about to run out of music to work on so that will give me some time to look up the manual and read through it, check out the videos and work thorough them as well. It seems to be easy to work with from the short video I saw but I need to spend more time with it.... maybe later this week I can dig in.

I used Jamstix with a BAttery set to lay down some tracks today on a back burner song that needs to be done.

good stuff to know Greg.

I have customized a few kits in Jamstix in that manner.

think I might watch a few videos on this and drink a Sam Adams.... 

We have a local brewery here called Karl Streuss, mmmm.. so good and the have some great brews, Also about a mile from my office is stone brewery they make that beer called Arrogant Bastard ale. Very good, even though i do not personally care for the name so much.

I have tried the seasonal blends but my old standard with SA is the Boston Lager.

I bought a few of the sample cases and there are some good ones  in that.

thanks for information...

Provided on a need-to-know basis only ....

I tried to use it this morning to add a few drum hits to the ending of a song.  I was able to get it there... but the drums did not match acoustically..... so believe it or not, I popped TTS in and the drums sounded close enough for the song.

I might post it later....

Better samples might make a bit of difference and some novel eqing, but I guess the point is that you want to be making songs not tweaking a drum kit.  I don't mind the sounds the Toms are just a bit 'tinny'.  Find more and more that I am using the jazz type kit (non brush) for rock tracks.  I however am entirely midi, no live instruments, using soundfonts and vstis.  For drums sounds I really don't see a heck of a lot of difference between the old nskit7freelite, TTS, StudioDrums and the drum sounds in Cakewalk Sound Centre.  So Session Drummer is the kit of choice right now with the occasional borrowed sample from elsewhere.  Lately I haven't even bothered sorting the drum tracks differently (separating the Kick and cymbals for instance), just put a standard reverb from the cakewalk one (usually Piano Room medium), some panning of secondary drums/percussion, and then I throw a free compressor of sorts (drum squisher setting) over the top that tends to make them pop a bit like the drummer is giving them a real smack.....the  biggest problem I have is not the drums but the guitar sounds in certain situations.  I guess it's easy to create rythm tracks (Drums and Bass) but not so easy to do guitar and piano leads without decent samples.  (Easier just to get the Audio cable eventually as I can actually play the guitar reasonably)

I know what you mean Herb. Actually, I found that the Ultimate Drums sound fonts are a great GM replacement for the TTS-1 Drums. I think there are like 8 drum kits all full GM and the tones are a bit better.