Kick samples > synths?
Do you lot tend to use: layered samples, a synth, or a mixture of both?
I’ve come across a couple of synths geared towards kicks that seem to produce a great sound… it’s really tempting to just use them and not bother with real samples at all… what do you think?
I tried messing with the Kick plugin that Nicky Romero did… I just wasted too much time trying to perfect what I thought was a good kick when I could have just used my folder of samples that I know are good and to my liking. I layer kicks as well. I just get better results this way. It’s all personal preference though.
Yeah that’s the one I’ve been mostly playing with.. must admit I really like it. At a guess how many kick samples do you have? I think I’m working with a tiny amount and it’s making other options look good…
I have probably 5+ gigs of kick samples
And I use about… 3 of them regularly. Lol.
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Good kicks there.
lol i use what ever works… i have a 40gb sound library myself
I usually like crafting my sounds from scratch. I have a bunch of kick samples but I think it’s best to stick with a few. It just makes it harder to find the one I used if something happens to my source files. I wish I didn’t have all of them. But it’s kind of too late. I like Nicky Romero’s kick plugin. I’ve tried a lot of kickdrum synth plugins and found most of them sound either too hollow or flat.
Cheers mate! Will have a look at this and your other sound packs this weekend. Haven’t had 5 mins to get in front of Ableton yet…