You are likely to own a few different drum libraries for this reason. You may look into electronic drums for EDM or video game scores, or softer, mellow kits for jazz ensembles. What drum VSTs you go for relies heavily on the genre or style you are composing for. How Do I Choose the Best Drum VST Plugin? I’m hoping this article lightens the load, but understand that it can be complicated, especially at first. Learning VSTs and making a set-up from scratch can be complicated and daunting. This is a whole subject in of itself, just like mastering real drum grooves or playing the guitar.
If you aim to become a professional composer/just want to become more theoretically accomplished it’s best to look to playing and writing music with various instruments alongside study and notation instead of just placing samples together.
If you don’t play the drums, these passages can help you out with learning and employing simple or more complex grooves.
In order to connect the two computers, you will need Vienna Ensemble Pro which acts as a sampler to host your samples from your ‘slave’ computer to your main computer.
The more samples you have, the less efficient and longer it will take to work within your DAW, so a lot of industry composers use a slave PC to save on CPU usage.
SSDs can be pretty expensive relative to HDDs so if you can only afford one it’s worth weighing up whether you’d rather the sample libraries load faster (external SSD) or if you want the computer, DAW and everything else running quicker (replace internal HDD with SSDįor advanced users: you may also wish to have a ‘ slave’ computer, usually a higher-end desktop PC or Mac where you can run sample libraries from without using your main computer’s CPU.
Samples are quite large files so you will need spare storage space to keep them on your computer, while superior RAM will improve performance of VSTis within your DAW