Using Steve Slate drums with Addictive Drums

[The Crystal King]

This question came up in another thread; just wondering if you guys know if it's possible to use the Steven Slate drum samples in Addictive drums, or other such drum software?

I am planning to use Logic Pro for putting songs together, but am hoping to use AD for doing drums as it's quite fast to put tracks together on it, adjust velocity, etc.

 

[beyond dead]

just get battery and use that. logic is a powerful daw with awesome midi editing ability. its not protools le dude. logic can do all the stuff that these plugs are used for. it converts audio to midi, has a sequencer, can quantize and edit midi very effectively. just set a tempo track, record audio,convert to midi for each track (ex. each tom, snare, bass drum) then put battery on the instrument track, edit your hits, and call it a day. no drumagog or addictive drums needed bro!

 

[The Crystal King]

I don't really like the battery drum samples, compared to Addictive and Slate, they sound very average imo... do you mean use battery and then import other samples in?

 

[The Crystal King]

just after listening to some of your stuff beyond dead - and I was very impressed with your drums on "Hanging Hearts", sounds great mate!! Is that battery? Cos it sounds real to me...

 

[Razorjack]

He means use Battery to trigger the Slate samples.

 

[The Crystal King]

Thanks for the advice guys... this has been quite a revelation!

So it's possible to use Battery to trigger the Slate samples? Their website says something about BFD:

There are four kinds of people who can use Steven Slate Drums. The first is programmers and composers who demand finished, realistic, and huge sounding drums for their music. The second is professional mixers who need to replace or augment exisiting drum tracks using the included GOG and WAV samples. The third are users of FXPansion's BFD software, who can use the upcoming BFD expansion pack (release due this summer). T

 

[grywolf627]

That's what Battery mainly is...a sample player. You load whatever samples you want in it. Like, I use EZdrummer/dfh to compose my drum parts. Then keep the cymbals from dfh, and run Battery (loaded with whatever samples I want) from the midi track I composed.

 

[beyond dead]

hanging hearts is all natural drums, before i used battery. actually that song is over a year old! one of the first i recorded! i actually havent finished anything with battery yet, as i just picked it up a week or two ago, before i used logic`s stock drum samples. but im working on brutal death metal band heaps of dead. ala bloodbath/devourment. actually, Mike Majewski did their cover art for them. i used sneap snare and bass drum, and it sounds absolutely brutal! i`ll post clips soon

 

[The Crystal King]

Just asked the lads at Steven Slate if I could use their drums with various apps, e.g. Logic, AD, Battery. Their response:

"we have a standalone version that will work with Logic, no problem. It comes out in a month or so".

 

[AdamWathan]

hanging hearts is all natural drums, before i used battery. actually that song is over a year old! one of the first i recorded! i actually havent finished anything with battery yet, as i just picked it up a week or two ago, before i used logic`s stock drum samples. but im working on brutal death metal band heaps of dead. ala bloodbath/devourment. actually, Mike Majewski did their cover art for them. i used sneap snare and bass drum, and it sounds absolutely brutal! i`ll post clips soon

Heaps of Dead! I know those dudes! Are you from Ontario then? I've met Jason a bunch of times at various shows...

 

[beyond dead]

yeah man im from peterborough. ive been around to alot of shows in ontario with them aswell, so maybe we have met lol.

 

[siegfried]

The Crystal King: are they planning to release also VSTi version (like for example ezdrummer)?

 

[The Crystal King]

Have a look at this topic man:
http://www.stevenslatedrums.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=255

 

[Metaltastic]

Godammit, I really want the standalone, but I also am REALLY impatient! I wish someone (meaning, Steven) could give even a ballpark release date (besides "in a month," which I feel like I've been reading for, well, a month )

 

[MetalWorks]

I use AD and Drumagog for my Slate Samples.

I play my midi track and record it onto an audio track. Throw Drumagog on the Insert. Then Mix it like a real drum set.

 

[The Crystal King]

There you go, that's pretty sly!!

So when you record your midi drums onto audio tracks, I guess you have to create many separate tracks for each piece of the kit? i.e. do all bass drums first, then use drumagog on that, etc.?

 

[Recgek]

With AD you can output instruments (kick and snare) separately so they end up on separate tracks in cubase. Insert Drumagog on those tracks and ready. No need to mixdown first. That's how I do it...

Recgek

 

[Slate]

working VERY hard on the standalone... all I can say is SOON. Before summer ends.

Here are some teaser MP3s of the DEFTONES kit (with 2.5 enhancements) played on VDrums by Dan Kirk:

www.stevenslatedrums.com/demo3/KirkTone1.mp3

check out the snare action:
www.stevenslatedrums.com/demo3/KirkTone2.mp3


all kits will also have the raw and natrual NRG room A samples too

 

[beyond dead]

battery also has the same type of routing possibilities. send each sample to a different bus, use the same effects as in you daw

 

[Recgek]

Sounds awesome! Just a little remark: is it just me or do the ghost notes on that snare sound as if they're played from a room next door?
Something with the balance of the direct signal vs room signal.
As if the softer hits have more room sound than they would normally have.
I don't know how else to explain it...

Recgek