Just wondering if anyone has purchased any of the HD kits from Beat Boutique and used them on their old song/beat libraries?
If so, did you notice any difference in how the beats sounded, or were they pretty much the same?
Short answer: Depends. If you like the non-HD sound of the HD kit, then you’ll likely enjoy the HD kit as much, if not more. If you don’t even like the non-HD sound, then the HD kit won’t change that. Base your decision on the tone and if you like it, get the HD if it’s available. Don’t waste money on a tone you don’t even enjoy.
Long Answer:
The HD instruments are just bigger. You can have more samples per instrument, and you can have more instruments. For example, the standard custom for the BB1 has 18 instruments with 9-15 samples per instrument, and the HD has 22 instruments with 25 samples per instrument.
The old midi loops won’t play the new instruments in the HD kits, so you’ll just get the same instruments with the extra samples, and while you might notice the variation, you might not, depending on the loop. There are some difference in the samples and layers used, for example in the Soul Jazz kit, the HD snare has 5 velocity layers with 5 samples per layer, but the non-HD has 3 layers with 10 samples total. When playing something like “Blues 1”, they sound different because of the number of samples and extra layers. Better or not is subjective. I personally think the HD sounds better, but I think that’s because it hits a different velocity layer with more tamed samples than the non-HD one.
The biggest advantage of the new kits is the breadth of instruments while the old 100MB kits were limited. The Bass kit I upload has a full 2 octaves with 9 samples per note which is 200MB by itself with another 250MB of other drums I can still add. That allows me to create songs and have the BB include other sounds, like the bass, without needing a DAW to provide those sounds.
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I expect the audience to go crazy over the difference in samples. 
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