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Tapspace Productions Virtual Drumline
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7/4/2004
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100% of reviewers
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$89.00
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9.0
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Description:
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Virtual Drumline™ is an innovative sample library for drumline arrangers, band directors, and composers, containing high quality stereo recordings featuring the award-winning Santa Clara Vanguard drumline. With this library, you'll be able to get incredibly realistic playback of marching snare, tenor, bass, and cymbal line sounds. Gone are the days of using cheap, simulated drum sounds during playback. Now you can have the real thing! Virtual Drumline™ is like having the SCV drumline living inside your system, ready to bring your arrangements to life.
ON THIS DISC:
GigaStudio formatted instruments:
Snare Line
Tenor Line
Bass Line
Cymbal Line
SoundFont banks (three different sizes):
Virtual Drumline™ "full" SoundFont (contains all samples)
Virtual Drumline™ "med" SoundFont (doesn't contain all samples)
Virtual Drumline™ "small" SoundFont (minimum configuration)
These three SoundFont versions are to accomodate users that may have limited computing resources such as limited RAM, or finite amounts of sample loading in their soundcard.
Help File
This document contains information about how to install your samples, and a few tips about using them, as well as graphic displays of all keymaps.
SAMPLES INCLUDED
Snare Line
Right and left hand hits, short/medium/long buzz rolls (cresc. and decresc.), sustained buzz roll, dry crush, wet crush, right and left hand rim shots, ping shot, right and left hand rim clicks, over-the-head shots (OTH shots™), rim knocks, stick shots, right and left hands with Dreadlocks, right and left hands with felt sticks, ride cymbals, bell of rides, crash on cymbals, Dreadocks on cymbals, stick clicks, shell of drum, sticks in sound.
Tenor Line
On all drums: right and left hand hits (with sticks, puffies, and Dreadlocks), short/medium/long buzz rolls (cresc. and decresc.), crush, right and left hand rim shots, right and left hand rim clicks, drum 4 skank, muted drum 4, side of drum, stick clicks, shell of drum, wood block (high), wood block (low), cowbell.
Bass Line
On each of 5 drums: right and left hand hits (w/regular mallets, puffies, and Dreadlocks), sustained buzz rolls, crush.
Unisons: right and left hand hits (w/regular mallets, puffies, and Dreadlocks), right and left hand rim clicks, short/medium/long buzz rolls (cresc. and decresc.), sustained buzz, crush, sticks in.
Cymbal Line
Unison and solo: flat crash, orchestral crash, port crash, crash choke, suck, sizz/suck, sizzle, sizz/suck longer, tap choke, tap, crunch, ding, HH choke, click, zing, scratch in, scratch out, circular roll, tremolo, whale call™.
*Note - From the Tapspace website.
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Virtual Drumline Soundfont Sibelius Finale
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Posts: 41
Registered: August 2002
Location: Stateboro
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SMDLsnare
Registered: September 2004
Location: Cape Coma, Fl
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Review Date: 6/15/2004
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: None indicated
| Rating: 8
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Positive aspects of the product (pros):
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your compositions come alive
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Cons:
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the rolls could sound better for snare
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This product really helped me get a feel for the piece and let me make those changes that you figure out when its played live. VD let me cut down on changes for my drumline.
The sounds are ok, but definately better than the midi wood blocks, disco drums, and other bad midi sounds.
I would really like to see the rolls get cleaned up. They come close to the real thing but not quite there.
VD also has a problem with sound levels. With out changing the sound levels for each individual Snare, Tenors, Bass, and Cymbals the Snares will over power the tenors and the bass unison's will over power everything.
VD, with Sibelius, does not allow the bass unison to be placed on the middle line of the staff for a unison note and be played as unison. So to hear it unison you have to put a bass note on each bass space. (for a whole song this becomes very time consuming and tedious)
Overall this product is very useful and well worth the $100 dollars your paying.
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kevin_fu
Registered: June 2000
Location: Southern MD
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Review Date: 6/15/2004
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: $99.00
| Rating: 9
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Positive aspects of the product (pros):
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Creates authentic-sounding sound files from scratch
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Can be a bit difficult to implement for the novice computer user
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I use this product along with Sibelius3.
All of the complaints I've heard from people come from a lack of understanding of the product which can include...
Rolls sound pristine. There are different sounds for L and R hands for every drum sound included. Users that don't take advantage of this will hear rolls that sound mechanical as opposed to human-like.
I'm not familiar with other notation software, but I know with Sibelius you can adjust the sound levels of each track independantly to suit your needs. You can use this in conjuntion with dynamic markings and other musical notation to obtain COMPLETE control over balancing and blending.
You CAN create unison parts by using the middle line only - you just have to use the right notehead and it sounds perfect. Putting a note on every space creates an unrealistic unison hit.
The $99 I paid was a great investment for being able to hear any groove that crosses my mind or eyes in a matter of minutes - being "virtually" played by the SCV drumline.
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-Kevin
Instructor/Tech
Northern HS - Owings, MD | Winter '03 - Fall '04
Patuxent HS - Lusby, MD | Fall '06
Huntingtown HS - Huntingtown, MD | Fall '07
Project PIW - Pittsburgh, PA | '05 - Cymbals
Promote Tolerance|Go Redskins! 
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NeoDrummer
Registered: July 2003
Location: DeKalb, IL
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Review Date: 6/26/2004
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: None indicated
| Rating: 9
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Positive aspects of the product (pros):
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Gives you true drum sounds
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Cons:
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you'll need extra stuff to go along with it.
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I was sold when I heard Spice Mon on the Tapspace website, I finally decided to get it last summer and it took me awhile to learn how to use it right but I finally got it down. When I first learned how to use it. I've had the experience of using it on both sibelius 2 and Finale 2003, and I have to say that I rather use it on Finale since you can change the velocity on accents and other articuations to give you more of that "drumline expression."
The thing I didn't enjoy about it was that I had to go out a buy a new soundcard so I could use the program. I bought a Soundblaster Audigy and eventhough it was a great addition to my computer, I don't see why tapspace couldn't find away to put an application that helps use the soundfonts on stock soundcards. I heard of people using Kontack and Reason with Maple Midi Tools but using a soundcard helps minimize the use of too many applications running at once.
If you're tired of hearing "Nintendo Drumline" sounds and you want to hear your compositions played by a real drumline, then I would suggest buying it.
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Marched in band for 6 years
2 bass and 4 snare
drumline leader at DHS for 2 years
Marched Marlyn Majors for two years
1 year Quad and 1 year snare
won AYOP national multi-percussion solo Champion 2003
Go Barbs!! Syco Spartans Suck!
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Review Date: 7/4/2004
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: $79.00
| Rating: 10
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Positive aspects of the product (pros):
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Ease of use
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Cons:
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Hard to setup for the inexperienced
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I heard about Virtual Drumline from when it first came out. I had to wait to purchase it because I had an older commercial. Now that I have the right computer and have been using VD for a while now, I wonder how I wrote battery parts without it. I use Virtual Drumline with Finale 2003 and Sibelius 3 and Kompakt and Maple MIDI Tools. Setting up the three programs correctly was a bit confusing, but that was a software problem and not a VD problem. The included handbook covers setup for Sibelius users, but ther is a Finale users help file on the TapSpace website.
TapSpace has posted a few updates on their website to help new users get up and running quicker. If you're using the soundfont samples instead of the GigiStudio samples, you're limited in the accessibility of the sounds. With the GigaStudio samples however, you have complete control over everything.
The only downsides that I've run into is that there are only 5 bass sounds, would've liked to have access to 6. I would also like to have a dual snare unit sound, but I understand that SCV uses Pearl drums and don't use a dual snare.
There is a Virtual Drumline 2 in the works and many of the sounds people have asked for will be included.
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