Those needing acoustic drum sounds have always been well catered for by sympathetic VIs, but historically genres requiring electronic sounds have been less well-represented.
Contrast that with product cycles that are longer, and stretching to get the thing that you actually want or need is cheaper than buying it twice. Many will be familiar with the immediate need to buy or hire-in a particular tool for a single job this can lead to more similar work as a result. While no-one can anticipate the amount or rate of change in their own needs, it could be argued that these can evolve more quickly than a given product. While total realism can be achieved with advanced tools, the sheer amount of functionality on offer can amount to something of a bottomless pit for less technical users time that is better spent on creative energy. While the former will require immediacy in use, the latter will need the kind of fine control as available when working with the real thing. Those using VIs will often fall into two categories: those doing demos or pre-production, or composers and writers producing finished work from start to finish in the same project.
In this article we’ll look at some of the things to consider when getting an instrument with the things you need without the features you don’t. That’s not to say that it’s no longer possible to pick the wrong one, as that’s not quite the same thing. Thanks to the efforts of developers, and the ongoing advances in computing power, nearly all of the products out there will get you sounds that frequently match the quality that can be expected from a ‘real’ recording in terms of both the sounds and the included MIDI.
When it comes to drum virtual instruments, any working composers or engineer/programmers working with them will tell you one thing in 2022, it’s hard to pick a bad one. With even mid-level virtual instruments ticking more boxes than some users might ever need, what reasons are there, if any, for users to make the leap up to an expanded feature set? We consider some reasons to save or spend…
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