recommend an easy to use FREE drum pad sampler for sonar x1?

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A drumset and some microphones is the best drum sampler I've found.  Sorry I can't help.

pinguino: unfortunately you cant make synth drum sounds with a regular ol drum kit. and i have a drum kit and plenty of mics in the studio so that's not the problem. I'm even going to be putting midi triggers in said drum kit...

also i don't want the samples. i have loads of those. I want a platform in which to trigger my samples from.

ok ill check out kvr

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kvr is free?

we can't use the dr008 anymore?
i was  just wondering about it...
I also need something to replace it.

C'mon people!  What is the best rteplacement for the dr008?
me and the guy who started this thread wanna know what's good? 
Whatcha using out there?

I also will check out kvr.  better be free.

Don't know of anything current, only older...

AO digital has been out of business, but they made a few easy to use drum vsti's you can search for and maybe find. 
AO Digital Audio DKL, was the free version
AO Digital Audio DK1, was the paid version

That's odd the link didn't take.

Try http://www.kvraudio.com/g...ts&st=adv&soft[]=i&type[]=3&f[]=dx&f[]=vst&win=1&free=1&sf=0&receptor=&de=0&sort=1&rpp=100

Yah, and I bought GURU and hardly ever use it. I watched the Geist vid and it just doesn't click with me at all. 

If I was ONLY using that than maybe, since it's practically a DAW all by itself now. But the rapid and elegant use they had with the DR-008 is gone for me, replaced with gobs of features I don't need. *sigh*

elijahlucian


can anybody help me with this? im finding SD3 really annoying.. and beatscape looks like it might work but doesn't (you have to switch the play mode every time you change the sample.... i mean, come on)

I know you said free. However, I don't think you will find that good of a drum sampler for free (I've checked). I cannot tell you how nice it is to have Battery 3. I never cared for it until they finally added quick MIDI learn to most important knobs on the last update. I have not found a better interface for a drum sampler so far, and it is drastically faster and more intuitive than anything else I have tried, including every freebie I could get my hands on. You can drag and drop samples and rearrange/add/delete pads with the mouse which makes kit building of various sizes and types lightning fast. Setting up controllers, effects and automation are done in a couple simple clicks. Well worth the investment if you can save up the cash. It can be had for 179 USD , or 99 academic pricing. There are good synths out there for free, but not a lot of good drum samplers.

D.

Oh yea, there is beatscape from S8/8.5P.

Dropzone only loads one sample at a time, no? As in no pads?


Another really good freebie is called Tatapoum 4.0. Silly name, effective interface.

rbowser

cornieleous




...Dropzone only loads one sample at a time, no? As in no pads?

Hi, Cornieleous--"No pads"---?  I thought we were talking about drum samples.  You mean no layers?  I guess that's right, one sample per slot, like regular drum machines, EZ drummer et al.  Works for me!  If I want layering, I just use multiple sound sources on the same MIDI channel being triggered by the same notes.

Randy B.

Pads as in trigger pads, not layers. Very useful for drums. For example, I load one instance of Battery, and I get up to 128 pads I can click on or assign to hardware controller trigger pads. Each of those trigger pads can load up to 128 stacked samples.

With something like dropzone I thought I recall only one sound per instance. Maybe I remember wrong.

i use an old very affordable and very still great drum machine called the alesis sr-16.sonar has drum maps installed in its map so all you do is plug in and its pads are synched up to sd3.i write all my beats on the pads and arrange all my parts in the alesis.i then synch it to the timeline and press play...one buttonn..thats it..i hit one button and it plays my whole tune that i wrote all the drum parts too..and like i said its also symched to the timeline,which is critical if your looping so it all lines up.its the best possible solution i had to triggering my drums..i love it this way

chuckebaby
..dont think your going to drop a quater in any daw slot and have it make music for you.

I'm pasting this right into the Feature Request form. Why DON'T we have quarter slots?