Drum Samples Are Not the Way To Go… Get Custom Drum Tracks Online
Undoubtedly you need professional sounding drum tracks for your music. But how to get great sounding drums without breaking the bank?
Many folks see the solution to the problem in drum pattern software samples, such as the BFD premium drum module.
The biggest two drawbacks to using drum sample software are:
1)“Canned”, uninspired results — drum tracks that sound disconnected from your music.
2) Large amounts of time being wasted putting together “custom” tracks slice-by-slice with individual-hit drum samples.
Most of these drum sample software packages give you pre-made loops you can use.
But even if a pre-made drum pattern works partly, there are inevitably parts of your song that could use a little bit of variety.
And at this point you may decide that you need to construct the drum parts yourself, hit-by-hit, slice-by-slice, using single-hit drum samples. Admittedly, you’ll probably get a better result this way as you at least have control over specific cymbal crashes, adding bass drum notes, fills, etc.
There is a big problem to this approach however: It takes up huge amounts of your precious time.
You can now get real, custom drum tracks from a session drummer over the Internet and save a whole lot of money over conventional recording methods. Conventional recording methods tend to involve having to pay several people (renting the studio, carting the drums there, paying the producer, the engineer(s), drummer, etc.).
All that can really add up.
Don’t go with drum pattern software, samples are “canned” goods! Go for fresh, custom drum tracks online.
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