Manufacturer: Wavelore
Format: NCW, NKI, NKR
Quality: 24-bit; Sample Rate – 44.1 kHz; Channels – stereo
System Requirements: Native Instruments – Kontakt 4.2.2 +
Size: 94 MB
The Brush Kit library consists of 5 elements (208 samples), recorded using brushes.
The Wavelore Brush Kit contains 208 samples from a 5-piece drumset. The kit consists of a kick drum, snare drum, hihats, and two rack toms, a ride cymbal, a crash cymbal, and a splash cymbal. The drumset was mic’d with a pair of overhead microphones, and the kick, snare, were also mic’d “close”. In addition to all this, a microphone was placed in an
adjacent room to capture some ambiance for the kick drum, hi-hats, and toms. In this virtual rendition, you can switch these mics on and off, as well as adjust their relative levels and panning for each part of the drum kit.
The drums were played with a set of wire brushes, and each stroke was performed 4 times over, so that the samples could be used in “round-robin” programming, allowing repetitions to sound more natural than the traditional “machine gun” effect often heard on sample libraries in the past. The kick drum, toms, crash, and splash cymbals were only struck in a single, plain strokes; The following is a summary of the “special” performances of the other parts of the kit:
- Snare Drum: The snare drum, in addition to its regular strokes, was used to play “stirs” (that swishing, swirling effect heard on a lot of soft jazz, easy-listening, country ballads, and other music that requires a soothing touch on the drums). The stirs were recorded with both left and right hands separately, and in four different lengths.
- Hi-Hats: The “hats” were played in five different gradations of “open-ness”: Fully closed, almost closed, halfway open/closed, almost open, and fully open. There are also samples of the hi-hats being closed by the pedal.
- Ride Cymbal: The ride was struck on both the edge and the bell of the cymbal.
The library follows the traditional method of mapping the parts of the drum kit to various notes on the MIDI keyboard, but also allows some interesting performance control options for folks who like to play their drum parts live. Read on!
