Don’t buy a DRUM VST before watching this! 10 Best Drum libraries played live!

[Music] foreign [Music] foreign okay my friends grab your popcorn tea coffee whatever you want because on this video I'm going to play for you my favorite drum libraries ever the libraries that I've been using the most for productions for client work for drum replacement I'm going to play all of them live freaky on the keyboard let's get started to start off I want to talk a little bit about what I'm going to show you here today so today I'm going to show you my favorite acoustic drum libraries that I've been using in my workflow for many many years now some of them are newer additions I'm gonna talk about them some of them I've been using for ages and these are acoustic drums so I'm not going to show you any electronic drums in this one but I'm going to show you how I chose these libraries and what are the criteria and what each library has to offer and hopefully at the end of the video you will be able to tell which Library might be for you and which Library you might want to invest in and which might be the additional library that you might want to get if you already have a few drum libraries straight away I want to say this video is not sponsored by any of these companies that I'm going to show you here today these are my personal picks but if you want to support the channel maybe you want to check out my Model 8 is drum kit which is a really good drum kit if you're interested in drums and the Apollo expansion for patch up if you're interested in synth sounds and beautiful cinematic textures I'm going to try and have links to each one of these libraries down below let's get started with the first one the first one is the groove agent the kit now a light version of the kit kit SC is included in Cubase so if you're using Cubase make sure you have this Library installed because even the light version is amazing [Music] so for me this library is a really solid acoustic drum kit Library this can go from really really raw to quite a bit of a process sound so I like the fact that we have all these bleeds so if you notice if I play the toms [Music] foreign [Music] and you can hear a little bit of the bleed from the snare and I absolutely love the toms on this Library check it out [Music] nice and tight [Music] and they sound great in a mix now this is not one of the most processed libraries that I'm going to show you here today but it's a really solid library that will give you a very good all-round sound of course we have different ways for example you can have a muffled snare you can have you know a normal snare a towel snare so the full Library does make a big difference now I'm not going to go too deep on any one of these libraries because the video is going to be hours and hours long let me know in the comments down below if you want me to do a review for any one of these libraries and if I get enough requests I might do it and I'm going to stick with the groove agent expansion and this is the Simon Phillips Studio drums now if you don't know who Simon Phillips is Google it you know and you will understand why this Library sounds so good let's play it [Music] foreign [Music] so it's a massive drum sound and this has a lot of different like elements like octobots and all these things I'm going to load another preset [Music] foreign [Applause] [Music] so these drums for me sound really big I love layering them with other drum kits sometimes and they give you this really big special sound really nice and natural they're not heavily processed I started using back in the summer and I love this Library these are the herds drums and this is a library that differs to what I played up to this point because they are mix ready so if you want a really modern Punchy in your face sound these drums will give you this with minimal effort it's very easy to build your own drum kits and let me play them thank you foreign drums come in three packs the blue pack the red pack and the white pack let me play a preset from the blue pack [Music] and a preset from the red pack [Music] so these drums will give you a sound straight away straight away they are so Punchy so powerful they have a very contemporary sound so very nice the interface is nice and clean actually I'm going to make a dedicated video about this Library so make sure you subscribe so that you can see everything but like I said this video is not sponsored so please allow me a little Shameless plug this is my own modern 80s drum kit and these are not acoustic drums these are drums that I would use for electronic music for synthwave for pop music pretty much everything that's up in the charts right now but also I would use them for sound replacement so if you have like a weak snare you can enhance it with a modern 80's drum kit I have a video about the modern 80s drunk and you can check it right here but let me play them very quickly and then we're going to move on to the other libraries and the Beautiful Thing with the modern 80s drum kit is the sauces so I can activate the kick sauce add some thump some definition and then the snare sauce punch tightness really tight or really long clap with make your claps nice and wide and I want to add a little bit of Reverb for this snare and why not add this characteristic 80s gate some yeah some Toms River you know so these are really good if you want to beef up a snare just for the snare reverses near as well you know do all these crazy things so I'm not gonna dwell too much on the modernity drum kit check out the video and if you like it and grab a copy you're really supporting the channel so thank you so much in advance let's move on to the next library and this is who doesn't know Superior drama now Superior drummer is the Pinnacle of drum instruments right so I'm going to play a sound very quickly [Music] foreign [Music] Superior drama excels at is that it's really really detailed okay the library is massive we're talking about hundreds of gigs has every little detail that you could wish for you know you can mix it has grooves I'm not going to go into the grooves or any one of these libraries because I never use them personally but they might be a really useful thing I know for many people there are two things that you should be aware about Superior drummer the presets are really good and the engine itself is really powerful it has some really interesting ways to layer snares and all these things what I would say though is that this is an instrument that I would go for if you're really really serious about getting the most detailed acoustic drum kit sound ever because if you're looking for a ready to go sound it might be too much you know what I mean so it's very very detailed and the other thing that for me it's a little bit of an issue is that when I play and for some reason I activate after touch on my midi keyboard you get this symbol chokes Okay so which is a great feature but it's triggered way too easily so when I play see so what I have to do in Cuba is to combat this is I have to activate the input Transformer and filter the after touch messages when I'm playing live and that's why I'm using Cubase because all these things are so easy to do I'm gonna play a few more presets this is the ielt I'm going to keep the clean kits here I like the Yamaha quite a bit and as you can see two gigs of RAM just for one drum kit they're very detailed [Music] all right foreign but if you're looking for realism you can't beat Superior drama it's very very powerful let's play The Pearl as well [Music] now the next Library I want to show you is the Steven Slade drums 5 and to be honest with you I've been using Stephen slay drums for like since they came out like a decade now might be might be more actually these drums are a staple right so basically they're super processed they're great again for sound replacement for drum replacement for snare replacement Kick Drum replacement and they sound big they sound modern [Music] touristic that I immediately recognize his drums when I hear them in a production so for me that's the only downside for Steven slate drums they've been around for such a long time and even though when they first came out you know every time I was using it for an artist or for a production or for a client people are going crazy about them now I find that sometimes I need to reach out for newer sounds [Music] so good and this is the CLA hybrid this is the beefy dry I love the sound of the Stevens Lee drums they also have some signature sounds from artists you know the chili this iconic drum kit [Music] and it goes without saying that all these drums that I'm showing you complement each other very nicely so there's a reason why I have all these drum libraries because sometimes I want to layer three or four snares from different libraries and one of my favorite expansions for the Steven Slade drums is the CLA uh drums so they're really nice you know they have this kind of CLA sound that you know if you're looking for this [Music] I use it mainly for replacement what a sound the next libraries I want to show you come from Addictive Drums to Addictive Drums are really great they have so many different libraries and they sound so distinct but I want to show you some libraries from them that I think sound really unique the first library is the Vintage dry and check this out [Music] foreign [Music] dry sound I love it for funk I love it for Seoul beautiful let me just show you a few more [Music] disco dirt so if you're looking for this kind of sound vintage dry is one of my favorite libraries when it comes to this dry Punchy very dead sound and the other library that I want to show you from Addictive Drums is the blue oyster I love this for you know injecting this kind of Motown Vibe uh to my Productions so even though I might not use these drums on their own because they sound very let me show you you know with the tambourine you know this is so Motown so so good let's try this one [Music] oh I mean just puts a smile on my face the next library is maybe the most intricate library that I'm going to show you here today and this is Drums of Saint Paul from sound iron these drums were recorded in a cathedral let me show you kick drums snares Toms [Music] and you can play with all these Mac positions [Music] so these drums can be really useful if you want to get this kind of Stadium kind of sound so again I would use them for layering they're also very cinematic sometimes this really helps this library is extremely affordable kind of library but nevertheless the sound is really unique and it's going to be really hard to get this sound that you can get with this Library the next one is an old favorite of mine and it's the Native Instruments Studio drama foreign this Library sounds so good I think it's so versatile you can use it on pretty much anything for my taste I always like to make the snare a little bit tighter because it has a long tail [Music] but this you can fix very easily in the mix that's my only gripe but the toms are nice [Music] and you know if you have Native Instruments complete you have this already this is an you know old school library but still very good the next one is also from native instruments and this is the Abbey Road vintage drama and this is a library that I would use for jazz for when I want like this kind of old school brush drum sound [Music] [Music] [Music] so it sounds beautiful now the symbols [Music] and you have you know the brushes and everything so really nice Library the next Library I want to show you is the circle drum samples dead 1975 and this is a library that again I like when I want to have this really dead really kind of muffled sound it doesn't have an interface so it works in contact and I think also in some other platforms but the contact is the only one I really use from the other platforms that they support I wish the supported Groove agent but they don't it doesn't look fancy but it sounds nice [Music] foreign [Music] would be GM mapping because the kit is all over the place especially when you use GM I don't know why many developers choose to go for a proprietary mapping GM works so well why change it many of these libraries that I showed you here today don't use GM and you have to load a preset in order to load the GM mapping now here you don't have this but I can still work around it because it's not too far from GM foreign so for example I mean this symbol has no place here this is reserved for tones this is where the symbols are [Music] so there you go my friends these are my top libraries that I use all the time as of today I have way more of course in my system and of course I couldn't show you all of them but if you like this video I might make a part two let me know in the comments down below and in the comments down below let me know which one is your favorite drum Library which one is the one that you use the most maybe you can show me one that I haven't tried I'd be really really interested if you enjoyed this video don't forget to like And subscribe leave a like and also check out my instruments right here modernity's drum kit and Apollo like I said I'm going to try and have a link for all these libraries down below take care of yourselves happy drumming and I'll see you on the next one bye [Music] foreign

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Length: 21min 36sec (1296 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 11 2022