Sonoma Wire Works DDEBPRO Discrete Drums Earth Beat Pro Set

Very handy.

Discrete Drums was the first to get it right...The EarthBeat Pro Set will not disappoint. Multi-track drums are what make a song like a professional work verses a demo made with a drum machine or stereo wave files. That said, EarthBeat Pro Set is recorded by a professional drummer (Greg Morrow) and a percussionist (Eric Darken) at a professional recording studio. The sections are recorded as songs (sessions) at a given tempo and broken down into intros, verses, chorus, bridges, fills, outros, etc. at various measures. Some are 1 measure, 2 measures, 4 measures recorded in multi-track 24-bit WAV. as the description details. The multi-track sets give you a separate kick, snare, hat, stereo toms, overheads, room and various percussion instruments to set the volumes of each drum and process with eq, compression, reverb, delay or whatever you desire without affecting the adjacent drums. You just CAN'T do that with stereo .wav files. I've been a Discrete Drum user before Sonoma Wire Works purchased them. I originally purchased them for my Roland VS2480CD in a format made especially for Roland DAWs. When I switched over to a Windows based DAW, I searched high and low for other multi-track drums. I purchased multi-track libraries from ESoundz Drum Masters2, Ocean Way Drums and some of the Epic Drums. All of them sounded excellent but when it came to the loops, many fell short. I'm not a loop maker and the availability of multi-track loops to purchase was scare. So for me, I still felt unfulfilled. Others offered quasi multi-track in a sub mix mode (Sonoma's Drum Core, which I own in my quest). They did allow the user to somewhat control the mix but they were still stereo 2 track files that you couldn't sub mix if needed on my DAW.I've come back home to Discrete Drums. They work perfectly with Sonar X1 Producer Edition and now I just upgraded to Sonar X2 PE and they are so cool! (Note: they also work as .wav files on other DAWs, this is what I use) The sections fly in from the DVD with the greatest of ease! and the loops in the tracks are clearly labeled (verse1, chorus 3)so it's easy to cut and paste around the song your recording. You may change them after you finish should you decide a tom fill might sound good at the end of chorus 1 into verse 3. Going from a tempo (124) to (118) is easy as well. The EarthBeat Pro Set gives you 16 songs (sessions) of multi-track drums and percussion recorded at various tempos. You can mix and match songs (sessions) if desired. If you can't get a great sounding drum track with these DVD sets, then all I can say is to look for a good day job!

This product is recorded expertly and played flawlessly. Greg Morrow is the ultimate drummer for any rock or country music and his playing on this project is nothing short of great. Eric Darken's percussion work is also stellar and will give any recording the sizzle that will set it apart from the rest of the pack. Percussion is the kind of thing that you only really notice if it's missing. After working with Earthbeat, you'll start to hear percussion on your favorite songs, that you never knew was there. The combination of seriously rocking drums and very tasty percussion is an amazing songwriting tool.