Frau Blucher - Kontakt drum kit - €10

It does sound nice.
 
But for now I've drummed up all the cash I could possibly afford to spend on AD2, EZD2.

Do you hear the sound of horses neighing every time you load the kit?

Now been updated to version 2.0. the price now €12 but still a bargain.
 
They have made several changes in the update making it more flexible and improving the interface.
 
I must say it is really great for the price and one the best investments I have made in a while.
 
 

"He vas...my boyfriend!!!"

Eddie TX
Bought ... couldn't resist at that price.  These drums sound great, very raw and dry, just as you'd expect a nicely-recorded kit to sound.  Probably my favorite Kontakt-based drums right now.  Neigh!! 
 
Cheers,
Eddie
 

Does it beat the Abbey Road kits?

Hi guys,
 
As an update to my previous note about the Kontakt routing with this kit, Henrik (FB dev) advised me that he combined mono kit elements (e.g. kick/snare) into a single stereo out, hard-panned left/right, in order to get around some weirdness with how Kontakt handles mono vs. stereo outputs.  I'm not enough of a Kontakt guru to explain all that, but by simply re-routing each side of the combined outputs to separate DAW tracks, I now have each kit piece separated coming out of a single Kontakt instance.  Life is good.
 
I'm liking this set more and more -- I substituted the FB kit into a country-rock mix that had been using a combination of SD2 and SSD4/CLA samples and the mix sounds better now, with the possible exception of the toms that I was using from the Music City SDX.  Perhaps with a bit more tweaking, I can get rid of those, too. 
 
Hard to believe that a $15 set is beating hundreds of dollars' worth of virtual drums, but it seems to be true for me in this case. 
 
Cheers,
Eddie
 

I see your point, Dan ... but I don't normally use the included fx in virtual drums.  None of the Sonalksis stuff was on the SDX I had been using, for example.  The thing about the FB drums is that they sound just like raw unprocessed tracks that you'd get from a live recording session using a good drummer, good gear, proper mic placement, and a relatively dry room.  Much easier to deal with than samples that have been pre-processed to sound good on their own.
 
I'm not ready to give up all my other drum software just yet, but seeing how nicely the FB package has worked so far is a good sign.  Best $15 (or was it $16?) I ever spent! 
 
Cheers,
Eddie