Originally posted by Diki:
For me, it's not necessarily about drum volume, or reverb, but more about how compressed the actual drum samples themselves are. A drum with it's transients squashed in the sampling process will never have the 'snap crackle and pop' of a less processed one, no matter how loud or dry it is.
Add to that the actual internal dynamics of a style, not something easy to adjust, and that is what I personally think is the difference between the Yamaha sound and others like Ketron and Roland. The more you play on top of a style, the more important it is that elements like the kick snare and toms 'jump' out of the part. The less you play, the more subdued or refined those elements can be.
I always find myself wanting to turn a lot of the Yamaha parts off, because I want to play much of it myself, but when I do, and play with a 'live' dynamic, IMHO the Yammie's snare kind of disappears. You can turn it up, but then it doesn't get out of the way on the softer hits. I am looking for a real drummer's dynamic, and you know how hard it is for them to play too softly!
Yes, I know you can go in and edit every style to add a bit more snare, etc., but, as always, I'm looking for the sound to not need that in the first place...!
Because the Roland's V-Drum sounds were ported into the G70/E80, you are already getting drum sounds that pass the 'drummer' test, and can quite convincingly evoke the impression of a real drummer (in a box!)...
just for clarification, when you say yamaha, are you talking Tyros 2 or an older model??
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