Storm Recording Studio has disappeared off the internet, taking with it the only source of drum sample replacer Drumtrig.
I mentioned Drumtrig in the list of drum replacer plugins. It’s a free, dressed-down alternative to Drumagog: Only one sample per track, but incredibly easy to use.
As with the similarly-fated Paris EQ, I saved the install file:
Here’s a brief description of the plugin from Storm’s old site:
By using this plugin on single drum tracks like Snare or Kick you can replace the sound with any sample (.WAV file) you like. Great if you’ve tried everything to salvage a poorly recorded drum sound and got nowhere!
If you like this plugin but fancy something a bit more sophisticated, have a look at Drumagog. It’s not free but it has a lot more features.
And there’s a copy of the Storm Recording website on archive.org with some more information. (Note that the plugin is Windows-only.)
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Alternatively………….
KTDrumTrigger
http://www.koen.smartelectronix.com/KTDrumTrigger/
Blurb
KTDrumTrigger is a VST plugin with custom editor that triggers MIDI notes based on the sound level of the incoming audio stream in different frequency bands. It allows you to “detect” occurrences of percussive sounds in an audio stream and send out a MIDI event whenever that happens.
This plugin has three channels and each can be tuned – so you could do kick, snare and hats in one pass if your original recording is decent.
Ya, that one’s definitely my favorite. (It’s first in the list on this page: http://www.hometracked.com/2006/04/29/free-drum-replacers/.)
The “velocity sensing,” which Drumtrig lacks, is key for realism, at least outside of electronic music.
I wonder if this would open up the idea of making some piezo triggers that can be played like a real kit. Record the various clicks and pops that the triggers make, then sample-replace them. Alternatively, the MIDI output of KTDrumTrigger could drive a drum synth in real time.
It’s a thought, anyway.
Darren, there’s an example on the KTDrumTrigger site of something very similar. As scuzzphut noted above, KT can filter input by frequency, so you can even get away with using fewer microphones than drums. Fun stuff.
Heh, I was just kicking around an idea of making sets of piezo triggers, some with different filtering, so as to be discernable by a program. That way, I wouldn’t be limited to the eight inputs on my soundcard. Active filters could be easily made to band-pass a piezo disc in any range.