Hey what’s good fam, hope you’re enjoying your holiday season!
Today I’m doing a drum library review for ya!
I usually haven’t been focusing on straight drum samples recently but these are different.
It’s an actual custom Kontakt interface dedicated to hard/urban drum sounds, you know I had to show it to ya!
let’s check it!
So what is DruMM?
It’s basically a series of dedicated drum modules for Kontakt geared towards urban and electronic music.
Mostly dirty urban music in my opinion
The concept behind the modules is to provide you quick access to fx and parameters that you would use on your drums, without having to load up various plugins and fx modules.
Everything is on the front panel and ready to go.
Also, these modules are designed to be layered together as well. Samplecraze aka Zukan..the guy behind the company, is also a great engineer as well.
He applied some mid-side processing, phase cancellation, polarity inverting, and other sorts of audio nijitsu to the drums so they they all layer perfectly together with no artifacts or distortion (unless you want to add some distortion!)
This makes created thick drum sounds very easy and quick to tweak
Quick Specs
- format: kontakt (full version
- price: $8 per module or $40 for all 6
How do they sound?
The individual drum sounds themselves are well recorded and cleanly mixed…unless made dirty on purpose.
The sound have the thump and snap many of us look for.
However my big deal with this library is how you can layer and tweak the sounds.
Having control over ambiance, fatness, crunch, even vinyl noise as well as filter and envelope settings right on the front panel is dopeness.
When you start layering them together, man, that’s when they really start to stand out.
The way the drums mix together is just plain great man, no unwanted artifacts, just pure thick drum sounds.
What’s the bottom line?
This is the first time I’ve seen a dedicated urban drum module for Kontakt
The price per module is more than fair, and for the whole collection, I’ve definitely seen drum libraries that cost way more
I give this library 4.5 out of 5 subs. The ease with which you can mix, match, layer, and effect your drums makes it a great tool to have for anyone using Kontakt.
Bottom line, go download the free kit: http://stretchthatnote.com/catalog/drums
Then get your own copy!
let me know what you think, leave a comment below
This really sound tight and phat, and layering sounds great. Thanks saintjoe.
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saintjoe Reply:
December 28th, 2011 at 5:00 pm
@Sergiu, cool man, they def sound thick!
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Sold – just bought them and was playing with them in Maschine well Kontakt in Maschine and I like them. Thanks for the video on these drums.
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saintjoe Reply:
December 28th, 2011 at 5:01 pm
@Myke, good news man, that’s exactly how I use them, maschine, pad mode, bang out! LOL
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Amazing sound, i have to tell whit Santa you know?, Thanks for the review info
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saintjoe Reply:
December 28th, 2011 at 5:12 pm
@iLogic Chop, No doubt fam, def check it out, some good stuff he’s doing.
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A worthwhile purchase at $40, especially when you take into account the flexibility offered. Thanks for shedding light on this, however…you know this is messing with my Rolodecks/Sonic Couture support fund right? Because a beat is a terrible thing to waste..
lmbo
Peace & Blessings to you and your fam’ towards the New Year!
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saintjoe Reply:
December 28th, 2011 at 5:48 pm
@Jamari, hahaaaaaaaaaaa, it’s a great collection of drums man, high quality samples but the layering is where it’s at man! Yes, a beat is a terrible thing to waste, so don’t do it lol
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On a more technical note, 1) how was the CPU hit when layering 2) how’s the note mapping in Maschine with or without layering or did you find it more efficient to layer sounds via the pads in Maschine?
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saintjoe Reply:
December 28th, 2011 at 5:49 pm
@Jamari, cpu was negligible, I just load up one kontakt on a pad, put maschine in pad mode, and play my kits that way, layering away
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Gonna try this one out, look slick. Thanks saintjoe.
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saintjoe Reply:
December 29th, 2011 at 12:15 am
@friDAY, no doubt fam, it’s a nice lil setup for sure
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nice video ..good information …great sounds
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saintjoe Reply:
December 29th, 2011 at 8:35 am
@storm9000, no doubt fam, thanks for watching
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love the drum sounds joe.And your right they do sound an 100%better when you layer them thanks for the post bro.
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saintjoe Reply:
December 29th, 2011 at 8:36 am
@julius, indeed fam! Thanks for checking it out yo!
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hey joe we thank you for all that you do for us and keeping us up to date.
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saintjoe Reply:
December 29th, 2011 at 8:50 am
@julius, that means a lot to me fam, I appreciate the support!!
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Ya bro! That was a good call those are tre cool!
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saintjoe Reply:
December 29th, 2011 at 10:03 am
@thomasgreco, yah bro, good stuff!
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So you layer with one instance of kontakt and play them on Maschines pads then,no keyboard huh?
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saintjoe Reply:
December 29th, 2011 at 10:04 am
@thomasgreco, both, either way works, pretty much the same thing, but yes I load them up in Maschine and either record from the pads or from the keys.
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SJ: This seems to have all of the urban drums sounds I would ever need to get things flowing. ‘I Gotta Get This One’. Thanks for the review.
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saintjoe Reply:
December 29th, 2011 at 12:20 pm
@Baddboy2000, yeah fam, it’s nice for sure, I like it.
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yo g! check out the massive response on this video
this is how you thouch us daily thanks bro happy new 2012
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saintjoe Reply:
December 29th, 2011 at 5:36 pm
@dledge, preciate it fam! That’s whasup, glad yall dig what I’m doing, makes it worth the time and effort!
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Sold! and I am only 2min in.
That price is crazy to. Thanks SJ
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saintjoe Reply:
December 30th, 2011 at 4:29 pm
@Tiko, no doubt fam, thanks for checking it out bro.
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Tiko Reply:
December 30th, 2011 at 6:49 pm
@saintjoe, How did you install yours to have all the sounds in the same location fam?
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saintjoe Reply:
December 30th, 2011 at 11:12 pm
@Tiko, I just put everything in the same folder
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Tiko Reply:
December 31st, 2011 at 7:14 am
@saintjoe, Thanks man. These drums are slamming!
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saintjoe Reply:
December 31st, 2011 at 12:21 pm
@Tiko, no doubt fam! Enjoy!
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hey joe im looking for a vst plugin like j holiday use on that song call its yours.soungs like a brass some type of string like an arp kinda let me know man thank you.
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saintjoe Reply:
December 31st, 2011 at 2:11 pm
@julius, do know the song or what the producer used for it, but you can probably make something similar with a lot of different plugins. Most let you layer and stack stuff so you can get whatever sound you want.
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the song is call its yours.
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saintjoe Reply:
December 31st, 2011 at 8:51 pm
@julius, yeah, I can’t tell you what they used, too much stuff out here that it could have been really. Just look for something with similar sounds and you can get it done I would imagine.
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Thanks joe.
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saintjoe Reply:
January 1st, 2012 at 12:44 pm
@julius, no problem,thanks for the comment!
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That’s outrageous!
Thanks for the review Joe
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saintjoe Reply:
January 3rd, 2012 at 10:02 pm
@everythingbutthegirl, no doubt fam!!
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Got all 6 units off your recommendation and can’t wait to mess with it. Thanks for putting me on to this bruh!
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saintjoe Reply:
January 15th, 2012 at 11:33 am
@friDAY, no doubt fam!!
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this is dope, i dont know how i missed this. i guess im finally going to have to get the full version of kontakt
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saintjoe Reply:
February 6th, 2012 at 10:36 pm
@xavier.p, word fam, they dope for sure!
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