I sampled some of my cymbals and then programmed them in Kontakt

[birdwazo]

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/27347130/bird wazo cymbal samples yeee.mp3


two octava mods on overheads
1 mk 319 octva mod for the room
side of the room next to stair case I placed a cascade fat head mic

api 3124 and seventh circle audio pre amps


this is my first time sampling my cymbals, I hit them myself with a drum stick! programmed them in kontakt. I think they sound pretty realistic. however I didn't end up using my ride because my crash ride sounded kinda fake. I have a cloud over the kit cause I have low ceilings and I put gobos on both sides to absorb reflection. the drums are steven slate 4. what do you guys think!!



edit: here are my cymbals in a mix


https://dl.dropbox.com/u/27347130/BIRD WAZO CYMBALS IN MIX.mp3

 

[oroinvictus]

I like it! Are there multiple hit velocities?

 

[Backe]

agreed, this sounds really good! prefer hats to the left though (drummers perspective), but that's just preference. what cymbals are these?

 

[birdwazo]

hmmm just realized they are all zildjian except the china and one crash are paiste. i actually have a bunch of paiste cymbals too so im gonna sample them as well! this recording i programmed all the hard hit samples, and i got like 16 hard hits per cymbal so if im programming a chorus in a song i dont need to repeat a sample for a pretty long time hehe so i think it makes it sound more raw, but makes it very inconvenient to program in kontakt , but kinda fun at the same time.


http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...62617791.71242.135141773207028&type=3&theater


that's a picture of some of the cymbals and the gobos and cloud around my drum kit!

 

[oroinvictus]

Color me interested.

 

[Tommy Evans]

Very cool dude. Also interested

 

[birdwazo]

I was trying to set it up in kontakt like the joey sturgis cymbals (I own 3 packages cause I started to want different cymbal sounds on each project), but I couldn't figure it out, so instead I just assigned 16 hard hits to 16 notes on the keyboard, but that means you have to move the midi notes all around haha, or program the cymbals like 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ... and then back down or randomly around. but if you hit 16 different keys in one bar at least you know you didn't get any repetition. really inconvenient but I think I like this method haha. I wonder if anyone else on the forum has tried it this way

 

[Tommy Evans]

This is exactly how I do it. Unfortunately.

 

[oroinvictus]

You can assign multiple hits to one key group in kontakt.

 

[Habsburgs]

I was trying to set it up in kontakt like the joey sturgis cymbals (I own 3 packages cause I started to want different cymbal sounds on each project), but I couldn't figure it out, so instead I just assigned 16 hard hits to 16 notes on the keyboard, but that means you have to move the midi notes all around haha, or program the cymbals like 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ... and then back down or randomly around. but if you hit 16 different keys in one bar at least you know you didn't get any repetition. really inconvenient but I think I like this method haha. I wonder if anyone else on the forum has tried it this way

omg just select round robin

 

[birdwazo]

hmm you can select round robin if you assign it 16 different hits to 16 different keys? cause i wasnt able to put 16 different hits on key and get it to work, maybe i just don't know how to use battery, actually I wasn't able to figure out how to make it play randomly in battery, I selected it to play randomly but it never worked for me, kept on playing the same hit. maybe I kept on doing something wrong, but i was following the signals audio youtube tutorial so I don't knowwwww, that's why I did it this way haha