Mt Power Drumkit 2 Free Plugins Out

It was once a paid plugin for 39 but now its free, and its easily one of the best free plugins out there.

You can also use samples from other plugins and use a DAW to further customize the sound.

Compatible presets include Superior Drummer, EZdrummer, Addictive Drums, Studio Drummer, and others.

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I have started using MT Power DrumKit 2 to get moving on some drum parts.

I like that I can use the rhythmfill library to start building things.

Then I EQed each track a little as if they were from a mic-ed drum set (using reaper eq presets, actually).

I also humanized the cymbals and toms about 10 and the bass and snare 5.

I was wondering if anyone else separates the different drums from a (MIDI) groove I figured if I add reverb I would want them separated.

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Anything else I can do for getting a good, realistic sound out of free software Is this overkill I have heard that the drum samples are already about as good as possible (with no added effects) and I have been told that they are a starting point and meant to be manipulatedprocessed.

Am I going to end up buying EZ Drummer anyway How much better is that Is it harder to use Thanks for any advice.

The one big advantage of EZD is the expansion kits; you can easily replace the entire drum kit.

I separate every channel that theyll let me and mix them separately in the DAW.

The defaults do usually sound good, but they dont necessarily sound like my mixes should.

The one downside to this strategy is that I have to maintain a bunch of different track templates for each kit because when you load up a new instance of MT or EZD (or switch kits in EZD) it reverts to a default stereo mix.

A while back I started to try remapping MT to trigger my SR18 to give me multiple drum kits, but MT has a lot more channels than the SR, so it was triggering bass notes and other junk.

I need to minimize the MT kit, but that all got pushed aside.

I have the original (full) drum track on Track 1 - it needs beefing up.

I find a groove I can work with, add it into Track 2 below where it needs to replace Track 1s section.

Then I move the cursor to Track 2s groove and split Track 1s start and end to match (may need to Zoom in), then turn Track 1s split sections Volume down to 0dB so Track 2 will fill in on Playback.

Currently, I have a full drum track on Track 1, various (different) tom-cymbal fills on Track 2, then more (different) cymbals on Track 3.

Im going to add Snares on Track 4 and play around with that for awhile.

When I get it all worked out, Ill cut all the splits from the original drums on Track 1 and merge all tracks into one.

Leaving the splits in will allow for EQing each section separately.