Trying out Native Instruments' Abbey Road 80's Drummer Kontakt library with some drumless youtube clips. No post processing, just the kit loaded into.
A quick and simple rundown of Native Instruments drum library 80s Drummer. You can play the drums directly from your MIDI device or you can import all the.
Once again, the Native Instruments team has been at Abbey Road studios, recording a couple of vintage drum kits to create a library with a unique and desirable sound character. Although the Abbey Road 60s Drummer library is still the real headline grabber of the collection (the others are Abbey Road 70s, 80s, 90s and Modern Drummer Vintage Drummer is free to be itself, and doesn't have to satisfy customers who want to create a virtual Ringo. By most standards, the library is large, apparently comprising over 46,000 samples and weighing in at 7.4 GB. This means that the kits don't load up in an instant (and downloading from the web takes an age but it's still much faster than recording the real thing! As with the previous libraries in the series, there are two instruments to choose from, both of which are represented by an interactive picture in the custom-designed Kontakt interface. The kits are labelled Ebony and Ivory and each can be loaded fully, or as less memory-hungry 'lite' versions. NI describe Ebony as being open, mellow and smooth sounding, and few would argue with that. For those who know their drums, it comprises original James Blades 12- and 13-inch toms and a 26-inch Leedy bass drum, all fitted with original calfskin heads. The Ivory kit — a Slingerland Radio King kit — dates from the 1940s and is intended to be the tighter of the two. Its toms are larger, measuring 13 and 16 inches, yet the bass drum, at 24 inches, is marginally smaller than that of the Ivory. Once again, calfskin heads were in use throughout. Both kits are, by today's standards, very warm sounding, but it is true to say that Ivory feels tighter: its sounds generally seem to have sharper attacks and more mid-frequency presence. It's possible that the mic and recording setup had as much a part in creating the sound character as the kit itself, but it doesn't really matter. The point.
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