03/22/2024
Many years back, I created one of the very first massive drum-sample libraries "Purrrfect Drums"... for use with Giga Studio and then Kontakt. Just a guy from Plain City, OH... with big ideas/goals.
Proud to say that Craig Anderton reviewed the library in EQ Magazine... and that Trent Reznor's Nothing Studios and many others bought the library.
If you've ever used the plugins Drum Rehab or Drumagog (drum replacement plugins), these samples were licensed and included.
They were used on countless recordings/records.
Years after that, I created the multi-channel follow-up, "Purrrfect Drums 2" (where you had live control over all 8 mics used on the drum kit). At that time, this was somewhat of a revolutionary concept/idea. This library sold ok... but really didn't take off the way I'd hoped. I had spent many thousands on high-end drum-kits and other gear to create the library.
For those who don't know, assembling drum sample libraries is the very definition of torturously tedious endless (boring) work.
I had resigned myself to the fact that all that time/energy/money was for naught.
Being stubborn, I kept the multi-track recording sessions... of which many of the drums were never actually assembled into the final library.
Flash forward to today (the point of this tome), I grabbed an Akai MPC X SE. This device is commonly used to produce Hip-Hop or for "making Beats".
I'm an old "Rock" guy... with no interest in doing that type of thing (not that there's anything wrong with it).
Being the ultimate computer geek, I popped-in a 4TB SSD.
So what's this old Rock dude decide to do?
Yep, I'm assembling those multi-track drum sessions into a new drum-sample library for the MPC.
Not as advanced as a Kontakt library, but still sounds great and is far less tedious to assemble.
It's a blast to reconnect with this part of my past.
Being able to play/hear (use) my drums, mixed now with my Neve outboard, in a form-factor that makes sense in my office studio.
I should have gotten the large MPC years ago.
Amazing how fun it is to tap out a drum part (that sounds like me)... then just sit and play piano/keys along with it.
Almost feel like I did when I was a kid back in the 80s... when all of this technology was just taking off.
