I’ve grown meanwhile quite bored with that sound, I must say. Despite all these different studios they record in, and using all these different engineers and different drummers (playing widely different instruments), there must be something happening during the production process of a Toontrack library that sort of unifies all their samples - almost as if they're marinated in Toontrack-liquid for several days -, after which they emerge as yet one more platoon of perfect carriers of the Toontrack idea(l) of how drums should sound. Kicks are every bit as kit-defining as snares. Which is just as big a pity, because, even though it might seem that the specific colour and contours of a kick has less influence on the overal sound of a kit, that’s not true at all. And it’s not so much an instrument thing, it’s more of a sound thing.Īnd the same goes for the bassdrums. (It’s not too difficult to post dozens and dozens of examples of snaredrum sounds that, despite Toontrack’s meanwhile huuuuge collection of sampled snares, just don’t figure in any of their libraries. In favouring and pursuing one ‘vision’ of what a snaredrum’s supposed to sound like, Toontrack keeps ignoring countless other possibilities of what snaredrums can sound like. Just like too many of the snares in previous TT-releases. Great idea, and something I would buy instantly, if it weren’t for the fact that all those snares, even though clearly different from one another, all sound like they’re fruit from one and the same Toontrack-tree.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |