vst's/vsti's i'm clueless.. help?

[piscaries]

i'm looking for some good software for making drumkits. just wondering what would be good for this? i was just using hardware sampler for this task, but i just bought a titanium powerbook and had to sell the sampler to afford the laptop, and i'm very unfamiliar with software instruments in general. any input would help.

[euterke]

Hi,

You should look at Fruity loop http://www.fruityloops.com/ or Reason http://www.propellerheads.se/products/reason/main.html or try for free as first audiomulch http://www.audiomulch.com/
have fun!

[piscaries]

isn't fruityloops like acid? i'm not looking for something to make loops.. more of something to mold drumkits out of and trigger via midi. i'm basically looking to turn my laptop into a highly controllable drum machine. i was also under the assumption that reason is kind of like the nord modular, which i've already got.. but i don't know for sure so i'll check that out. thanks for the input

[zongkong]

well, I think there's a lot of software samplers out there, however only three actually springs to mind:
- NI Battery
- NI Kontakt
- Steinberg Halion

[_JM]

Waldorf Attack is a VSTi drum synthesizer, you build your kits from the oscillators up like you would on the Nord Modular.

NI Battery is a software sampler designed for drumkit use - it maps one-shot samples to single keys instead of pitching the sample up and down the keyboard. I've found it to be buggy on the Mac if you're working it hard.

The Steinberg LM4 is the same thing, drumkit oriented sampler. I haven't used it much.

[pille'ocheoni]

yeah halion is good.battery is for the programming type.its more logic involved like flowcharting sounds

[c s]

hmm yes but i wonder if not all the software listed here is for pc only ? for pc & drumsamples battery is the choice. it hasn't got the sampler features of kontakt but more than enough parameters for 'semi-static' samples.

reason is definetely not like nord modular - or like reaktor or max/msp etc. i don't think you can work on a really basic level with it.

[Django]

klick for information (www.kvr-vst.com)

kvr is one of the largest sites about vst/ dx plug ins for different systems.

[ischo]

maybe you wanna check out ableton's live....

http://www.ableton.com

[lucid rinehead]

Waldorf Attack is quite nice, and it runs on mac or pc, same CD, same licence.

but it is just a drum synth, nothing else - no sampling