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What's your favorite X3 VSTi for percussion - specifically congas and such?
Hi y'all. The title say sit all. I have the VSTi that came bundled with X1, and the X2, and X3 upgrades. What would you recommend for a go-to instrument for percussion tasks? TIA. 
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Re: What's your favorite X3 VSTi for percussion - specifically congas and such?
2014/12/18 05:06:11
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Battery 3 has a extensive Latin set that is quite good. BFD 3 has a percussion set that has many Latin drums. I use both. I don't know what Battery 4 has. I would assume it too has good Latin drums.
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Re: What's your favorite X3 VSTi for percussion - specifically congas and such?
2014/12/18 05:38:34
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EZDrummer Latin Percussion.
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Re: What's your favorite X3 VSTi for percussion - specifically congas and such?
2014/12/18 06:56:51
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I also use Toontrack stuff like EZdrummer, but you do seem to be asking about instruments bundled with Sonar, so..
I found some sounds in Cakewalk Sound Centre (under Percussion-Acoustic Percussion) like congas and djembe etc. It is only 32bit, if that is important to you.
There are a few oddments in Dim Pro. I have the Emu Proteus Planet Earth expansion which gives you quite a bit more.
Other than that, I can't think of any others. There are some loops and one shots in the included Loops & One Shot content.
Sorry that I can't be of more help.
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Re: What's your favorite X3 VSTi for percussion - specifically congas and such?
2014/12/18 13:56:05
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Re: What's your favorite X3 VSTi for percussion - specifically congas and such?
2014/12/18 16:14:02
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I run the EZX Latin Percussion kit in Superior Drummer 2. One instance for a kit and another for Latin Percussion. The key is to unload the individual instruments that you don't need. That way it loads quicker and is lower stress on the CPU.
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Re: What's your favorite X3 VSTi for percussion - specifically congas and such?
2014/12/18 18:53:59
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I really like Battery 3. BUT, I just a couple days back took advantage of a GREAT deal that had been posted in the Deals forum, where by making a $25 donation to be split between 2 good music charities, I then was awarded a free FOURTEEN GIGABYTES PERCUSSION LIBRARY FOR KONTAKT Please excuse the caps, yeah I was that excited. This library is amazing, and has the most in-depth percussion sounds I have ever seen. Mallets, brushes, all kinds of different sized cymbals, flourishes, you name it, it's in there. Here it is: http://forum.cakewalk.com/FindPost/3130038 FABTABULOUS deal - by far the best $25 I have ever spent on anything related to music. Please note that it does take up to about 24 hours for them to process it all and send you the download links. Also, there are instructions for the decompression and installation - FOLLOW THEM. Bob Bone
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Re: What's your favorite X3 VSTi for percussion - specifically congas and such?
2014/12/18 21:39:37
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Stylus RMX has great capabilities and sounds in this regard.
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Re: What's your favorite X3 VSTi for percussion - specifically congas and such?
2014/12/18 21:59:06
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Depending when you got X3 and if you have Addictive Drums 2 installed then AD2 Adpak "Session Percussion" is an option. http://www.xlnaudio.com/products/adpak/session_percussion
I've only had it a week or so and still evaluating but so far so good.
It's a shame XLN stuck so rigidly to it's kit set up, and replicated a drum kit with their pieces. I think they should have supplemented the kit with a few more percussion peice to create the Brazilian sound. As it is, you need a second percussion source to supplement it if you want the complete samba rock sound. It's missing cuica, a range of shakers for me mainly. I'm not even sure I like the cuica, but it's part of the sound. I can't imagine paying for a shaker kit peice if they added one, so I think they have to have a collection of them. Edit: Guiro (reco reco) too
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Re: What's your favorite X3 VSTi for percussion - specifically congas and such?
2014/12/18 23:31:08
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I just picked up Brio from Indiginus, and I really like it. Other than that I tend to use the percussion library that came with the first DFH Superior most of the time.
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Re: What's your favorite X3 VSTi for percussion - specifically congas and such?
2014/12/22 20:15:23
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EZdrummer 2 with the Latin Percusion set.
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Re: What's your favorite X3 VSTi for percussion - specifically congas and such?
2014/12/23 04:39:11
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In Sonar, Dimension Pro, TTS 1 and Soundcentre are all potential sources.
I still use the Luis Conte kits in Kitcore in preference to EZ Latin. Unfortunately it's hard to recommend Kitcore at the moment due to the debacle surrounding the release of Drumcore 4. (12 months on from taking pre-release orders we are still waiting)
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Re: What's your favorite X3 VSTi for percussion - specifically congas and such?
2014/12/23 22:07:47
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Chromaphone by AAS is my favorite VST for percussion.
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Re: What's your favorite X3 VSTi for percussion - specifically congas and such?
2014/12/24 00:18:33
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robert_e_bone
I really like Battery 3. BUT, I just a couple days back took advantage of a GREAT deal that had been posted in the Deals forum, where by making a $25 donation to be split between 2 good music charities, I then was awarded a free FOURTEEN GIGABYTES PERCUSSION LIBRARY FOR KONTAKT
Please excuse the caps, yeah I was that excited.
This library is amazing, and has the most in-depth percussion sounds I have ever seen. Mallets, brushes, all kinds of different sized cymbals, flourishes, you name it, it's in there.
Here it is:
http://forum.cakewalk.com/FindPost/3130038
FABTABULOUS deal - by far the best $25 I have ever spent on anything related to music.
Please note that it does take up to about 24 hours for them to process it all and send you the download links. Also, there are instructions for the decompression and installation - FOLLOW THEM.
Bob Bone
Sounds like an absolute bargain, I just donated.
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Re: What's your favorite X3 VSTi for percussion - specifically congas and such?
2014/12/24 01:20:46
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I own Battery, AD2, and EZ Drummer and I would say EZ Drummer has the best add-on for this stuff. Though that Kontakt charity thing mentioned above sounds interesting.
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Re: What's your favorite X3 VSTi for percussion - specifically congas and such?
2014/12/24 09:36:30
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Because of this thread I opened up Dimension Pro 1.5 for the first time in a long time. Some of the sounds are decent on their own, and if run through an effects chain can be made into very nice sounds. A while ago, I had downloaded sforzando and have grown to prefer this as it visually shows what keys are mapped and which are not for programs. There is also a "ARIA Free Sounds" at the extreme bottom of the download page, and Garritan has a "Basic African Percussion" that is more capable than I expected. Sforzando will drill into the DP Multisample directory by default and is a bit easier to run through sound banks to test drive them (there are percussion-specific programs within DP as well).
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Re: What's your favorite X3 VSTi for percussion - specifically congas and such?
2014/12/25 01:02:18
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I repeat that that 15 GB percussion library I got from giving $25 to 2 worthwhile charities sounds fabulous. (was a single donation - they split the $25 between the two charities)
I highly recommend it - I have never had so many cymbal 'flourishes' as I do with this new library, and I haven't begun to scratch the surface on it.
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