Spectrasonics Stylus vs. Ebay Samples...

[Cold Truth]

anyone ever buy one of those ebay drum cds? i am considering buying one of those, for like $25 bucks.... i figure out of the (alleged) thousands of drums, there has to be at the very least 50-60 useable hits, wihch is fairly decent for the price, but there are a lot of fillers out there- i ordered drums from kid nepro and hated ,most of them, out of 7 disks which included samples of the famed (and WAYoverhyped if they are real samles from the actual machines) sp 12 and mpc 60 drum machines......... only to recieve maybe 12 sounds that were useable, even with tweaking.

stylus will run me $200... and it sounds excellent, des a good job with that grittier breakbeat sound, and also does acoustic very well.... do any of you own either one of these? stylus looks like the best thing on the market by far, in regards to drums..... anyone have an educated (meaning you own or have used one of these) review of these?

 

[Copenhagen]

Sorry Truth, can't help you, but if you buy any of those of eBay, I would like to hear your comments on them, I considered buying some at one point but dropped the idea again.

 

[Sober]

Well to tell you the truth most of those self created so called "i made the kits and created them from mpc's or other equipment" are bogus. Don't buy that garbage off ebay. Your better off buying proffesional discs. As far as drums and percussion goes there are some nice sample discs over at sonic state.com ,but as far as hits i can't help you there cause most professionals in the industry end up creating most of there own hits.

never heard of stylus, if its 200 bucks thats pretty steep. I would try to find someone with a copy and then ask to trade sample cd's.

Also if you would like more drums and percussions there is a cd called 3500 drums which is pretty dope from the sounds i was able to listen to. you can get it here its only 20 bucks http://www.soundengine.com/html/products/3500Drums/3500WAV.html

I would also recommend if your going to be dropping loot like that on sample cd's i would say save that money to buy a dope synth like a triton, motiff es, or phantom.

 

[Cold Truth]

well, lets see, i have owned in the last year a triton le, roland xp 80, xp 30, motif rack, proteus 2000, and tr rack and mpc...... all of which wound sold or traded for another one of them...... and ultimately sold to begin my pc recording career..... because the samples i heard on some of these disks (such as the Ultimate Strings disk from east west) blow away anything i had heard on these synths...... i prefer to spend $200 on a very good string section that gives me multiple styles and versions to use, $50 on a vintage keyboards disk (that sounds very good, especially at the price) that has almost exactly what i am looking for, i am sure there will be some things i just dont like on it as with everything..... 200 for a "virtual guitar" player which will sound much closer to the real thing than i can do on the keys myself, and allow me to show a live player EXACTLY what i want, and finally the $200 for the sylus which has a way better sounding drum library for hip hop than any (actually all...) of the aforementioned keyboards combined...... and a sequencer (cubase) that does both audio and midi very well, which means i can do everything i need to, start to finish, on my pc, which ill be packed with an 80 gig hard drive and 3 gigs of ram (yes, 3 gigs!) so..........

 

[Sober]

hmmm well sounds like your happy with what you got so if i were you i would just stay with what you feel comfortable with.