General Midi drumset for Kontakt: Any reccommendations?

[Raindog]

I´m looking for a good GM drumset for use with Kontakt 2. I´m especially looking for good sounding percussion sounds. Any reccomendations out there?
Thanks for your help
Raindog

[fizbin]

For general MIDI you'd want something like Studio B (http://www.beladmedia.com/studiob.htm)
But this is a drumkit, not necessarily a percussion set.

Most of the larger kits available are not general MIDI.

fizbin

[Raindog]

Thanks for the hint. Any other ideas out there?

[Marko]

Even though it is not known for its drum kits, StormDrum has some very good GM drum kits. They are basic: just the bass drum, high hats, cymbals, tom toms, and snare. There are a lot of extra rim shots that can be loaded onto other tracks. No cowbells and other stuff spread across the keyboard, but the rest of Stormdrum has a lot of percussion. The cymbals sound great. No brush kits.

The StormDrum GM kits may work best for rock and fusion, but I have used them in a jazz piece. You can here a StormDrum GM kit in this piece.

Frankenstein (http://www.planetcanadice.com/Music/Frankenstein_M.Drost.mp3)

(Regarding the sound fx: this was a Halloween piece.)

Marko

[Tom Crowning]

I´m looking for a good GM drumset for use with Kontakt 2. I´m especially looking for good sounding percussion sounds. Any reccomendations out there?
Thanks for your help
Raindog

I use 'Studio Drums' from Native Instruments (see http://www.native-instruments.com/index.php?id=studiodrums_us).

It's inexpensive (about $99), has some good sounding drum sets, is GM
compatible and being from NI it's supposed to work well with Kontakt.

[Martin Jann]

Battery 2, Bandstand and even Kontakt 2 all include a full featured GM1 drumset. Bandstand even includes 9 different GM2 drumkits.

Best,
Martin