Boom and Bap: Native Instruments Drumlab Review

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OK, so if you’re looking for a new way to quickly come up with hybrid drum sounds you may want to give Drumlab a try.

The concept is to provide a very simple interface in which you can mix 2 drum layers to come up with your own unique drum sounds. You get a layer of electronic source drums, and a layer of acoustic source drum sounds, with a simple fader to mix how much of each is present in your drum sound.

Throw in quick fx, style presets, and a groove sequencer and you have a pretty cool way of adding new drums to your track. This can really fit any type of genre, as long as you’re looking for a creative way to create drums it’s worth consideration.

 

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  1. I think DL’s strength is in the ability to select and shape individual kit pieces and build up a grove from those pieces from scratch and play them back in real time. I hope to get this by the end of the year. Nice work again Saint Joe. Thanks for the video.

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  2. There isn’t really anything special to doing it that way, I’m usually not a fan of playing kontakt drum libraries in Maschine, it would just be putting the pad in keyboard mode.

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  3. Very nice drums, thanks for the review, I’ve got enough bread&butter drums already from Toontrack EZ / Superior Drummer as it is, and a fast shrinking harddrive, but yeah these sounds pretty awesome.

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