On the flip side, are there any cost effective drum trigger's out there? I recall my old drummer had a full set, pretty nice but it was expensive at the time (probably going on 5-10 years ago). But, it's been quite a while since I fired that stuff up.
I don't know how guys drag and drop drum tracks/loops without ever "playing anything". I would assume I could use that as the controller into Reaper but be triggering drum sounds from EZ Drummer or Superior Drummer? I would have at least be able to plug in kick / snare, etc. for the rest of us there's Legacy of Rock! Sell your bed and buy it! One of the easiest Expert’s Choice Awards I’ve given.I have a midi controller keyboard (an old Roland something or other, about 44 keys?). I can't recommend this SDX highly enough, the only people who don't need it can afford a top session drummer, AIR Studios, the mics and Eddie Kramer. I understand why they did but let me assure you these kits could work on many genres of music including pop, R&B, and Jazz - the recordings are sublime. My only misgiving about the product is by calling it Legacy of Rock Toontrack may put off some buyers who think it's for people of a certain age or musical persuasion. Perhaps because fewer and fewer people have the opportunity to sit in a top studio listening to a top musician playing, it's easier to pass off average quality sound libraries as the real thing. Legacy of Rock blew my socks off, simply because as I auditioned it I felt like I was sitting in the control room at AIR Studios listening to a world-class drummer playing. They sent it back with a note saying 'next time open the lid before you sample it!' This is often how I feel with sample libraries. I recall a story from the early 80s when Technics sent one of the first sampled pianos to one of the biggest bands of the era to try. The sounds often feel one dimensional and rarely make me think I'm sitting there listening to the real thing - even with the best players. With a few notable exceptions, most sampled sound libraries leave me less than convinced. In addition, all of the MIDI was recorded exclusively using the SDX sounds and all of its articulations, giving you a vivid display of all its rich detail in the context of different fitting performances." The MIDI library also features a collection of grooves and patterns specifically designed for use with the brushes, mallets, timpani and gong as well as the hand and finger sounds included. Inspired by the like of Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Kiss, The Rolling Stones and The Beatles, this MIDI will take you through thunderous onslaught of classic rock, the jazz-inspired psychedelic grooves to the straight-on pounding and in-your-face rock beats. This is what Toontrack say "Just like the drum sounds, the main portion of the MIDI circles in on the era of Eddie's career that stretches from the full-on rock years of the sixties through the seventies. Along with the huge library of kits is the MIDI library of grooves. What makes this library so great is not only the sound, anyone working in modern music production knows that even the best sound with a bad performance sounds mediocre at best. BUT, after just 5 minutes of me trying out Legacy of Rock, it propelled my creative juices into writing a song idea. The litmus test I place on any product made for creatives is this does it inspire me to want to write a great song? Sadly, fewer things claiming to inspire me do that these days. I'd go as far as saying buy Superior Drummer 3 so that you can own this library. Legacy of Rock is probably the closest thing most of us will ever get to having world-class drums on our tracks. There's two versions of this review, the long one and the short one. However, a drum library designed around this made me wonder if it was too narrow for my range of recording needs… I was wrong. I like a rock track as much as the next person, I was alive for many of the albums mentioned in the advertising material and if not I’ve certainly heard them. When I first saw the Legacy of Rock SDX for Toontrack's Superior Drummer 3, I wondered if, even with the iconic Eddie Kramer lending his name and decades of recording experience to it, it would be something for me.
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