Looking for a Drum Sampler - 64 bit.....Cannot seem to get good info on this.

Steven Slate Drums  (my favorite)
Addictive Drums (very good - I think you still have to download the 64 bit update separately but it is very stable.)
There are some good and affordable add-on packs for Session Drummer but SD is not a full featured solution and Cakewalk never updates it.

sharke


Battery comes in 64-bit, so what's the problem? I use Battery 3 in Sonar X2 64 bit without any problems whatsoever, and I shouldn't think the 32 bit version would give you any problems either. 

True. I totally forgot that.  It is quite stable in 64 bit.

Session Drummer 3 will do this.

Load a Session Drummer 3 Template ... open Session Drummer 3, click on Mixer, and drag your samples to each icon.

Also, did not know that the Steven Slate drums is an actual VST player standalone?

CF

Session Drummer 3 will do this?? Whoa, will check on that immediately...Thnx

Yep, if all you want to do is load your samples and trigger it with a pad ... SD3 is great for this.


I suggested loading a template only because it will set up all your routing for you ... you can just insert SD3 as a synth, but by default it loads all the outputs to 1 track. I like to keep them separate for individual tweaking with VST's.


I just sampled some of the drums in my old Korg X5 and used SD3 to trigger them in Sonar. Worked like a charm.

Watch the Drum Production videos in the following link. They use SD3...

http://www.cakewalk.com/C...NARU.aspx/Master-Class

He uses the Step Sequencer though and uses an older version of Sonar so watch for the little text bubbles that'll tell you to find certain things in the X series and try using the Piano Roll View for more elaborate drum sequncing. Cheers.

CF


 Native Instruments seems to be pushing Battery out of their line,

I am not sure where you get that from, but you may be right, development of drum products seems to be focusing on Kontakt with the "Drummer" series, West Africa etc.
 
Updating to the 64 bit version of Battery is probably your easiest option as you are already familiar with the program and if you already have Battery 3 its probably a free update. Even if it gets discontinued you will still have quite a few years use out of it.
 
Are you talking about a sampler where you are going to use your own samples, as opposed to one that comes with proprietary content? If I wanted to do this I would pick Kontakt, OK its not got the drum machine like interface but at the end of the day you can still map a sample to any MIDI note an trigger it from your pads. You can map velocity layers and round robins and by splitting your samples into different instruments up to 16 output channels, add effects, write scripts. You can be as simple or as complex as you like.
 
Toontrack, BFD and Steven Slate will not let you map your own samples,(unless I am missing something). You can use your own samples in Session Drummer 3 however.

For me, Battery wins as an all purpose drum machine. It's so logical and simple, you can make kits on the fly by simply dragging samples from the browser into it, hitting "learn" and hitting a key on your controller. You can make some pretty out there kits from the one-shots you get free with Sonar, and there are so many high quality free and paid drum samples out there. I recently bought the "Driven Machine Drums Strikes Back" package of lovingly sampled vintage drum machines which require very little additional compression or EQ to sit well in a mix, and it's so easy to drag them into Battery to make kits. And then the multi-out setup is easy in Battery - even if you don't want to do this, the "in-house" processing is very good indeed. When I first got Battery I didn't use it half as much as the Kontakt kits, but now I use it more than anything else. It's just so intuitive and practical.