Attached is a link to a new folder containing drum kits which have either gone missing from the Forum or are difficult to locate. These include: the GarryA drums; drumkits for specific songs; drumkits that were posted without a name to kit, such as might be the case were it included in a response to a question; kits that were removed for revision; possibly some kits that I never shared previously, and more.
DO NOT EXPECT SUPPORT FROM ME ON THESE KITS!!! If you find problems, edit them. The most common problem would be a “stuck” note where a non-percussion part was inadvertently labeled as percussion. Simply make the change and save the kit. If you need to know how to edit kits, refer to this
Fantastic! Thank you, Phil_Flood. Can you recommend one of these drum kits that is a Rock set with a Keyboard? We have guitar and a bass and use the rock drum kit for all of our our songs. I’d like to add some keyboards for a Linkin Park tune.
No problem, although it does kind of beg the question as to why you couldn’t find a suitable kit out of the other 75 kits I had already posted to the Forum over the years. All of my kits with key have some type of bass in them. That’s not a real problem, just don’t program anything for the bass part, or find a bass that sound totally different and add that to the overall sound. I can’t think of kit that has a signature Mike Shinoda kind of sound to it. But here are several I might try:
Avicii kit - This has a synth and piano that you can double and get some great effects. The bass is not a standard bass sound.
Either of the Prince kits - Try 'em see what you think.
OK - dumb question - I downloaded 1 of the drumsets under the missing drumset link. Saved to my User Library Drumset file, added a new song, but the new drumset was not in the list of available drumsets.
I tried Open Drumset and then searching for that new kit, but still doesn’t show up.
From what you’ve described, it sounds like you used your computer operating system to place the kit in the bbworkspace folder. If this is the case, you should use the BeatBuddy Manager (BBM) to import and then activate the kit. If using the BBMO, you just have to import the kit. You should remove the .drm file from that folder.
The tabs are located beneath the Virtual Machine (the pedal) and they may or not be visible (a bug in the BBM) unless you hover over and click on their location.
I’ve made screen shots of the Songs and the Drum sets tabs. The Drum sets tab is to the right of the Songs tab and in the middle beneath the Virtual Machine. Upon opening the Drum sets tab, it displays the list of imported drums sets. You should see a check box next to the kit you imported using the BBM. This list is where you would also select and delete the duplicate you imported; from the BBM - Drumsets menu select Delete Drumset.
Save your project and then quit the BBM; reopen the BBM and you should see your kit from the Default Drum Set dropdown list. You’ll do this because the BBM may or not display your just-selected kit.
You are encouraged to use the BBMO instead of the BBM. It’s been vastly updated and improved and the few issues that it has are being addressed by Singular Sound.
All of my kits with key have some type of bass in them. That’s not a real problem, just don’t program anything for the bass part, or find a bass that sound totally different and add that to the overall sound. I can’t think of kit that has a signature Mike Shinoda kind of sound to it. But here are several I might try:
