It boasts an easier-to-use interface, in-depth style and drummer modeling and many enhancements. The heavy ones need loads of RAM and fast HDs (better SSDs). The result of this research is Jamstix 2, which is a near-complete rewrite of the original Jamstix. On a laptop better stick ( ) with the lean stuff. I think I got most of this stuff with 30% or more off.Įdit3. The NI kits (Studio Drummer and the Abbey Road series) are quite nice but I'm not convinced of the Kontakt implementation (btw very resource hungry) of the latter.Įdit2. But I prefer the specific packages of Toontrack. The stock library of BFD is very diverse. The stock JamStix kit is very solid, but if you need something for heavy metal, or funk, or jazz, or. 328684 - 12/31/15 05:39 PM Off-Topic Jamstix 4 is announced. Or was your question more about the drum samples? A good multi-sampled drum kit can certainly be used for many styles, esp. Some of my favorites: OddGrooves, Groove Monkee, and Platinum Samples. Make sure your spelling for Jamstix 3.6.0 is correct, you might also want to try searching without including the version number.

In your search, excluding those words will result in better results. There are several good vendors of MIDI drum material. To improve your results for Jamstix 3.6.0 do not include words such as serial number key etc. Of course, you always can program your own pattern in a DAW piano roll or drum editor, but it's not easy to create a human touch. Provided fills are often too long and need shortening. Most provided patterns are often too busy and you need some time to simplify them manually in the DAW. Of those I have only BFD2 has a built-in pattern editor.Īnyway. Sometimes you can arrange them in the VST, but all allow to just drag&drop them into a DAW sequencer.

But usually you get some usable drum track in no time.Īll other drum modules (and I have quite some of them, from Toontrack, Native Instruments, and fxpansion) only provide canned patterns. These are not really documented so playing with the parameters is mostly trial&error. It has its own logic of combining music styles and player styles with quite a number of parameters to generate pattern. The number of kit pieces and velocity layers is heavily reduced but you can see if you like the workflow. You could download the demo version of Jamstix.

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