Native Instruments Studio Drums Wav

I have been producing music for over 5 years. I make Drum & Bass, Breakbeat, Jazz, Funk, Trance, Electronica, and everything in between. I've been using this library mainly in my EMU e5000 sampler, as well as often in the Creamware STS3000 and STS5000 samplers. I've worked with this library for around 2-3 years now. Monitors: Yorkville YSM1P.

When I first opened the (nicely designed) CD case and listened to the samples, I didn't use the library in my tracks for quite a while, and it ended up on the shelf for some months. When I started experimenting some more with my electronic music and wanting to add some 'live' sounding elements, I reached for this library and was quite surprised! These drum samples fit so well into my mixes that now that I see what they can do, I truly can't live without them!

The drums are nicely categorized into 10 Studio kits and a few other Stereo and Tom kits. I mainly use the Studio kits, which each have distinct sounds for a large range of genres... Rock, Pop, Jazz, Blues, Funk, Grunge, etc. Once you get familiar with these samples, you can really appreciate all these different kits. Each one is played with a different style.

I find I am using about 1/3 of the library very often. I don't produce 'traditional' music so a few of the kits don't have a sound I feel like I'll need soon --- but I am very sure that producers in those genres will love them. The variety of sounds is honestly great for the variety you can expect with 'live' drum kits. The quality is unblemished: dry and remarkably open for processing. I've used kits in some of my tunes without any processing, and they fit in well too.

After release, Native Instruments also provided a downloadable percussion library for owners of this product - a very cool gesture on their part!