![]() ![]() Drums come in a multitude of shapes and sizes, and can be struck, stroked, bashed and beaten in any number of ways, by players exercising their art across all musical styles. The apparently modest demands that drum samples placed on primitive samplers, in terms of memory and bandwidth, made them a fertile area for exploration, and basic drum and drum-loop sample libraries were some of the first sample libraries ever to become available.Īs technology and our understanding of the true complexity of drum and percussion instruments and how they are played has progressed, however, it has become ever clearer that a sampled representation of a drum kit that has any pretensions to authenticity must be extremely sophisticated. ![]() Since its very early days, sampling technology has been applied to drums. We caught up with some of the people behind the leading applications, to find out why this new software genre has appeared and how it might develop in the future. More and more music producers are turning to 'virtual drummer' software to help them realise authentic-sounding drum tracks. ![]()
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