Bespoke Live Drums (and Modular Kicks)
So I’ve just finished this today. It’s for my own use but you can have it too!
I’ve put out a series of drumkits, back in the day, and when I started to get into Bespoke I was frustrated not to have as many drum samples. So I started to adapt all my old EXS drumkits to Bespoke format, which basically means ‘take all the instruments and put them in their own folders’. In Bespoke, you select a folder and then you can hit a randomize button and select something out of the folder: you can even trigger an event to continually randomize your groove. If they ever add the ability to pick from the folder based on velocity, the entire library is already ready to work that way.
The old samples are all 24/44.1k, not always super clean: some of ’em had some background noise. In some cases they were mic to mic pre (API) and directly to the converter chips inside an old 20-bit ADAT, ‘cos these date back quite a ways. As a result they can have a lot of impact but signal to noise isn’t ideal: these samples are as raw as I can get them, without processing.
The new ‘Electric’ samples are either Moog or Blue Lantern. DFAM sample sets are from my Moog DFAM, using a FM patch and listening to Osc 2. The Blue Lantern kicks come from three sources. One, an early and hot-rodded Asteroid BD (larger power supply and coupling caps). Two, a newer Asteroid Accented BD, also hot-rodded (new oscillator caps allow for much, much deeper notes). And third, a stock Asteroid Mini Synth, with two other Blue Lantern modules also driving it: the first Asteroid BD (a stock one would do as well) into the Lin input to add FM to the oscillator, and a red Mini Shimmery producing a hihat or click-like sound, that either goes into the Mix input to just be mixed in, or goes into a PCV input as yet another FM modulation. The combination of these Blue Lantern modules made the Electro kicks, with their super-aggressive attacks. There’s a youtube video documenting how I selected the Electro kicks from out of a thirty minute long sampling session, here. All the Electric kicks were picked out this way, but only the Electro ones got a livestream :)
Hope you like these samples!
Hi Chris! Do you have any more information about the Bespoke format? These samples sound great BTW.
Both the DecentSampler and SFZ formats have a lot of features including varying samples based on velocity, it’s just a matter of putting together a text file that configures how the raw samples should be used in the context of an “instrument”. I haven’t come across the Bespoke format before, but SFZ seems to be the most popular in terms of the number of (free) instruments made for it, and tools developed for working with it.
Josh “Bespoke” is a word, meaning: “made for a particular customer, person, project, etc.” made for a particular circumstance
Never mind! ignore me sorry