Drum tracks, samples and loops for 3/4, 12/8, 7/8 metres

[mhschmieder]

The jazz libraries (two volumes), Colombia, various world percussion and world instruments, Salsa, Latin Spice, Bill Bruford, are certainly top of my list.

I learn a lot by studying their patterns. I've even been able to improve my own hi-hat programming by studying the hi-hats in some of those libraries.

What's especially great is that they cover LOTS of instruments, and not just drums. For latin genres in particular, where the rhythm section is comprised of many instruments and no one part stands on its own, that is especially helpful.

I find the Twiddly.BITS libraries incredibly inspiring, along with Platinum Samples. I probably would have given up on doing a MIDI-based jazz album otherwise. I doubt anyone will suspect the drums were from MIDI (though of course I tweaked everything as I never use someone's stuff as-is, even if it fits from the outset, as I consider that plagiarism).