Rayzoon Technologies LLC

[Ralph [RZ]]

[paspallum]

Ralph
I have just been playing a Jamstix free-jam with the BFD.
Here's what I think:
It's going to be really hard for you to beat the recoding of hi-hats and toms that they have done... their hi-hats and Toms are just so amazing.

So many mikes and the 24 bit rcordings do help the hihats sound real.
And the toms they use are just perfect.

However, in my opinion... with the drumpack #2 I think that you have in fact made a superior snare set than what BFD have done.

To me the sound of the snare is the MOST important element to a tasty sounding kit... and you have NAILED IT!!

I can see myself writing a song with the entire arrangement worked out with the jamstix... then I would 'bounce down the drumpack#2 snare to an audio track... then use the BFD for the rest of the sounds.... but keep that Jamstix #2 snare as the final product!

it sounds THAT good to my ear.
(The kick sound spretty good too)

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[Ralph [RZ]]

Thanks, Bud
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Ralph Zeuner
Rayzoon Technologies LLC
http://www.rayzoon.com

[paspallum]

Ralph
I've taken all the demos mp3's through (on disc) to my studio and loaded them into my system (yeah I'm not silly enough to have my recording studio PC hooked up to the internet)

This way I can really hear the difference between the new demos and other sample sets... when all the 'detail' comes out through my studio monitors... the drumpack#2 sound even better!

I did a demo 'shoot-out' with the mp3 demos for Jamstix Drumpack#2 and the new BFD deluxe mp3 demos... well Jamstix Drumpack#2 kicks BFD's butt completely.

Your samples sound as good if not WAY better.

BFD could also do with some good beat programming to match their above average sounds...

There was only one snare from the BFD deluxe set that even I liked at all and of course it sounded REALLY good...
it is on the MP3 demo: BFD Deluxe groove[1] (it's from their website, I'm not risc enough to buy the deluxe set... nor do I have RAM and CPU to 'throw' around...who does?)

I can send it to you as an mp3...

It is very 'buzzy' in a warm and fuzzy way... but is still crisp.... it's a different vibe to what your new (awesome) Mapex samples sound like...

...completely different... but complementary... I'd really use a snare that sounded like 'BFD Deluxe groove[1]'

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[Leighton]

[drk1]

Ralph
Drumpack #2 sounds excellent - can't wait to buy it.
The problem is with so many new features to keep up with and sounds to try I haven't finished off any recording since I first purchased Jamstix in (I think) April. Although the world is probably not missing much.

Keep up the good work Ralph

[drk1]

Just Noticed that I joined in May not April.
Just for information when I bought Jamstix I gradually changed over from Using Logic to Ableton Live and have therefore spent alot of time redoing all (or most) of my previous drum parts which is probably another reason why nothing is finished. I like the keyword search in the rythmns section but was wondering whether there would be any advantage in having subfolders to further organise the mass of rythmns that will eventually build up when using jamstix over a period of time.
BTW Whilst Jamstix seems generally to work OK in Logic I found there are a number of quirks. One is that the arrangement always starts at bar 10: as with anything in Logic it seems to take forever to set the thing up; it was always crashing or freezing for no apparent reason

[Ralph [RZ]]

[gregjazz]

I've been visiting the Rayzoon website at least once a day now, awaiting the Drum Pak #2.

[earthlinger]

Hi Ralph,

Perhaps it's simple but I have a question for sample rates and resolution. When my projects in Cubase SX are 48 khz and 32 bit, what kind of differences I might have, if I use 16 bit 44.1 khz samples like drum pak 2?

earthlinger

[Ralph [RZ]]