24bit Drum Samples For Use In Reason Redrum Options

[taco6]

Anyone know where to get more drum samples (single hits) for Reason's Redrum preferrably in 24Bit or high quality 16-bit? I have a ton of drum machine samples, but am looking for something different...I'm not a big fan of the ones that come with Reason for Redrum. I may just have to effect the same old ones I use to make em sound different... what are you guys doing?

[Levon River]

Can you tell me which ones on this site are good...especially acoustic drums...thanks.

Of course I can't, taco6, because tastes in sounds are as individual as tastes in Hawaiian print shirts. "Good" also depends entirely on what kind of sound you're looking for, and for what kind of music.

If you go to the "A thru E" page of that site and scroll down to the files that conveniently start "Drums..." you'll find one hell of a lot of soundfonts of drum kits, snares collections, kick collections, cymbal collections, hihat collections.... You name it! You might find some full kits you like, or you might want to build your own sets from individual samples within several of those soundfonts. (In Reason, you can load any individual sample from any Soundfont into Redrum, NN-19, or the NN-XT; In fact in Redrum and the NN-19 you can *only* load samples from the soundfonts; only the NN-XT allows you to load entire soundfonts.)

I certainly haven't downloaded all of the drum soundfonts on that site. I suggest, based on what you've said, that you look for soundfonts that have the words "acoustic," "real," "clean," and "dry" in their names. Start there and download all of those and try them out and see what you like and don't like. Hell, they're free! What's it going to cost you to try them out yourself and see if they fit your needs?

Look at the names of the soundfonts and the relative sizes; those can all give you clues to what might be most likely to suit your needs. But you can always go back to the well anytime and try others.

Ultimately, though, it's your music, and only you know that sound you want. It's your decision to make, and yours alone. Music is a lonely calling.

Good luck with it!