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Double
Platinum Drums
Organization
This data is organized into four CD-ROM's.
Disc 1, Room Loops and Loop Kits/Cymbal Kits.
Disc 2, Room Instrument Hits and Kit Combinations.
Disc 3, Dry Loops and Loop Kits/Cymbal Kits.
Disc 4, Dry Instrument Hits and Kit Combinations.
Discs 1 & 3
Loops
All Loops are mapped from C5 ( note number 72 ) upwards.
Loop Kits/Cymbal Kits
Loop Kits/Cymbal Kits are designed to work directly with the Loops.
Try loading a Volume of Loops and then load the associated kit (
see listing ). This will allow you to add you own cymbal hits or
fills as needed.
Discs 2 & 4
Instrument Hits
The concept of these instrument Modules was borrowed from the Roland
developers' guide. This allows you to build your own kits easily.
You can plug and play different combinations of Kick Drums , Snares,
Toms, etc. with out having to change your sequencers note mapping.
This also allows the Akai and Roland Versions of Double Platinum
Drums to be mapped exactly the same, for you multi-sampler owners.
In most cases there are 3 or 4 versions of each instrument, varying
in number of megabytes used. When possible use the biggest version
of each instrument. These usually have more velocity splits and
will have a wider dynamic range. When it comes to samples, size
IS important, bigger is better.
Kit Combinations
These kits were mainly set up as examples of how to use the Modular
instruments. They're also cool kits.
The Name Game
Creating a naming scheme on a big project like this one of the most
difficult aspects of programming. I came up with a scheme that works
well once you understand it.
Loop Volumes - all loop volumes start with their tempos in BPM followed
by the style name and a "D" or "R" which identifies
it as a (D)ry or (R)oom version.
example 96HARD ROCKD
Loop Programs - loop programs begin with their tempo in BPM, followed
by a very abbreviated style name, followed by (D)ry or (R)oom designator,
followed by the memory size in megabytes. All megabyte numbers were
rounded up. i.e. 4.111 megabytes = is displayed as 4.2.
example 96HRDROKD7.8
Loop Kits - loop kits (Volume and Programs) follow the above layouts.
They differ in their style name. The first name tells you which
kick drum is used, the second name denotes the snare drum used.
example DW+TAMA D = DW kick with TAMA snare
Instrument Hits - all hit programs begin with the model name of
the drum/cymbal, this is followed by a type designator, SNR, KICK,
HAT, etc. . Next is the (D)ry or (R)oom designator, followed by
the memory size.
example TAMA TOMR6.5
Memory Requirements
These discs were designed to be most effective on machines with
32 Megabytes. of RAM. Most individual Programs will fit into 16
Megabytes. All programming was done on an S-1000HD to insure compatibility
between all Akai samplers and samplers that read the Akai S-1000
format.
Levels, Panning, Velocity, etc.
Levels - due to the fact that all of these Loops and Kits can be
used in many different musical styles and may be mixed to various
type of media, the levels in the drum kits are set to their maximum
values. If you make use of multiple outputs you will most likely
want to be recording at the maximum output levels and if you are
using the stereo outputs you will probably want to mix the drums
to your own personal liking.
Panning - all drums were recorded in their stereo field, therefore
panning on each drum and loop is hard left and right.
Velocity - velocity curves on keyboards vary greatly between manufactures
and even between models. The curves and scaling used here were set
using Roland D-50, Kawai K-5, and a Roland XP-50. If you need to
change the velocity scale consult your controllers owners manual
or change the "Loudness" and/or "vel>loud"
setting in the "Edit Program>Output" page of your sampler.
Velocity for all Loops is set to OFF.
Sample Transfers
All samples were transferred digitally from a Macintosh using Interval
Music's Transfer Station software. Programs were created and edited
using Interval Music's S-Edit, S-1000 editor. Special thanks to
Michael Brecker for parting with his S-1000HD.
Loop 'til you droop,
Glen Darcey - Big Bear Audio
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