The hi-hat open and close effects may prove useful, but I haven't tried those properly yet - I'll try playing around with them when a future project needs it. My conclusion is that I'm far better served by the Acoustica drum kit selection (I have Mixcraft 6 Studio), because with some applied EQ, compression and reverb I can at least achieve a nice big authentic sound.
#MT POWER DRUM KIT 2 DOWNLOAD#
Unfortunately, this free download is stuck with only one (lame) drum kit. So much for this being correctly equalized already! The MT Power Drum Kit is a new drum sampler offering the powerful, high-quality sounds of an acoustic, realistic drum kit. As for the amplifier, its a freeware plugin as well. Basically EQ and some compressors, but not much. So I found out this plugin 'MT power drumkit 2'.
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It has thousands of integrated MIDI grooves and fills that can easily be dragged and dropped into. Manda Audio has announced that its MT Power Drum Kit 2 free multi layer drum instrument for Windows and Mac, is now available for free. I started using freeware plugins because I really believe that We can reach a great quality in our homes with it. To get it sounding reasonably okay I have to kill the 8khz band completely and give some boost at 63khz. MT Power Drum Kit 2 is a free drum sampler offering high-quality sounds of an acoustic drum kit. The kick drum sounds a bit powder-puff, with far too much high frequency content around the 8khz band that reveals a metallic click sound, and putting it though a compressor just brings this out even more.
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The floor tom has no depth, sounding far too shallow, so I had to give the 125hz band a massive 18dB boost (all the way up with the Acoustica EQ) in order to get it sounding anywhere near decent. As for the crash cymbals, they are just lightweight and limp. It sounds like someone has removed the snare (the loose spring that straps on underneath), which ends up making it sound like a tom with too much high-mids applied.
#MT POWER DRUM KIT 2 MANUAL#
My manual adjustments proved just as chaotic. the left crash is, by default, mapped to C#2, but it plays at C#3, and the rim-shot (Side-Stick) plays at C#2 but is mapped at C#1. The mapping feature in 'Settings' is all over the place too, whereby the octaves in midi are referenced wrongly, eg.
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They claim they've set up the eq correctly, but it's just plain wrong, and the inbuilt compressor controls do nothing. I'm not surprised they gave up trying to make any money out of this because the quality is mediocre, and I would imagine the demands for a refund were appearing in droves.