A while back I sampled a jazz/funk drumset. It’s a small kit–a kick, snare, two toms, and two cymbals–just like something a jazz drummer would play at a gig or recording session. In terms of jazz drums, I’ve always been in favor of small kits. Skilled jazz drummers can make a single drum sound very expressive, bringing out its character.
It was with this in mind I sampled this drumset. It features unique and rare drums, and cymbals and has an excellent tone suitable for jazz and funk.
Currently this free download is available in Kontakt 2/3 format (a link to the sample library in SFZ format is at the end of this post). However, all the .WAV sample files are included in the download archive, and are labeled, making a conversion fairly straight-forward.
Audio demo:
http://www.orangetreesamples.com/audio/jazzfunkdrumsdemo.mp3
Direct download:
http://www.orangetreesamples.com/download/JazzFunkKit.rar
Also, KVRAudio users Pljones and frollo9386 have kindly made an SFZ version of this drum library. You can download it here: http://www.drealm.info/sfz/GregJazz/
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Man this is an excellent-sounding kit. Thanks for sharing this. I will give credit on whatever projects I might be doing with this.
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Thank you…
THANK YOU for this great set. It’s my first drum kit choice in my recs (I do ethnic – jazz). If I ever publish something I’ll let you know and I’ll give full credits.
Just beautiful.
Panos
Quite an interesting drumkit, thanks a lot!
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Hi.
Cool samples.
Unfortunately all normalized
Can one extract the original level from SFZ?
Deve.
I’ve tried to download several times, but the server stops after 5-10 MB. My attempts have been tried over the span of a week (basically in early Dec. 2010).
The demo sounds really nice. I hope I can download it sometime soon. THANK YOU!!
Ok. I just posted about difficulty downloading. After about the 20th try, I finally got the whole thing.
Thanks
I only wish that some multiple-bounce hits (ruffs) were also recorded. With multiple velocities, these can create a very convincing roll. I have other snares that do this, but it is nice when the ruffs match the hits. Otherwise it’s a very useable set!
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