I’ve been toying around with Native Kontrol’s LPC live and i’ve got to say it adds to the novation launchpad all the functionality i wish it had and even more. The launchpad is great, don’t get me wrong, as a performance tool i feel it’s almost perfect, but with the LPC script it becomes something else, and i’ve been able to craft entire beats without touching the mouse or even watching the screen.

But enough rambling, i’ve put together a little kit of hard messed up drum sounds to try the 16 pads mode, and i’ve decided to post it here to download, so feel free to use it to make some crazy beat or whatever.

it’s 26 samples, 44 /16 .wav files, with kit mappings for battery, kontakt and ableton live drumrack

If you feel like it, you can thank me with a paypal donation, that’d be just great. But no problem either way.

As a bonus, here’s a short little video of me demoing the sounds. Next week i’ll upload the second part of it, when i actually stop fucking around and lay down a beat.

I’ll admit i’m not an ableton power user, especially in the studio, so the bundled stripped down edition is more than enough for my actual needs, though i may be tempted to upgrade in the future.

In the video i’ve just thrown a couple of loops from a piece i’m working on in the session view and noodled on. It’s loads of fun, and i’m quite happy with the tune as it is. It is bare bones and needs a lot more fleshing out and bells and whistles (well maybe not really bells and whistles, you know) but it bounces along pretty well. When i’m using samples i always try to pair recorded sounds with my own synth tones, and the marriage is always a difficult one, so to speak, especially when real brass is involved. Don’t know, i just feel this might wind up a real swell chilled out tune.