Need Help With Drum Samples/Loops

[botface]

I've recently started using MIDI instruments. It's lots of fun and so powerful. Anyway, I'm having problems with drums. I've never played drums (or percussion) and find that I can't think like a drummer so it's really hard to build musically sympathetic drum track for whatever I'm working on. The obvious thing to do is to use lops or "grooves" - I have MT Power Drums and SSD5: both freebies but I don't want to spend money until I have more knowledge/practise - but all the provided grooves are 4/4 (OK SSD5 does have some 6/8 that might be useful). Can anybody point me to some good, basic, free 3/4 grooves? Looking further ahead do commercial (IE paid for) packages have a decent range of time signatures?

[Mark Bliss]

https://groovemonkee.com/products/drum-freebie-pak-gm

These are a pretty good place to start. Pro level, human played drum midi examples.
And I think theres a lot to be learned by studying the midi programming closely.

[Rolling Estonian]

One of the best things I did was buy EZDrummer2. I'm a hack guitarist who knows nothing about drumming, so it was a lifesaver. It has a song creator mode and tons of different kits to suit you needs. It's not free but invaluable to me.

M

[heks]

Grooveemonkee are good, but for something more "off beat" not just 4/4 have a look at https://www.oddgrooves.com . If you don't mind them emailing you adverts they send free samples of their grooves every so often.

[TrevsAudio]

Plus 1 for Rolling Estonian!
Do yourself a favor - If you're remotely interested in good sounding professionally played drums - outlay a little cash. You won't find better

[jlouvar]

I also recommend EZDrummer2.

[botface]

Thanks very much guys. There's plenty here to keep me busy for a while!

[Acoustica Greg]

Hi,

A lot can be done with Omni Sampler and the samples that come in Mixcraft's library as well. Change the Library setting to samples and load them up in Omni Sampler.

Greg