Thank you. I'm hoping to get back to it real soon. Work schedule has been crazy but I have some new videos planned.

Yeah and the update was to just sell the individual pieces instead of giving control. Big thumbs down.

Yeah I adjusted that in the future episodes

Great Ranking my dude

I run midi out of Ezdrummer 3 directly into Kontakt so I can use the song creator in EZ3 with the sounds of Mixwave.

Yeah those 2 have just that raw feel that can never be recaptured.

I went back and listened to every album and I still couldn't get into it. That's why music is amazing. I don't think any of their albums are terrible but that one just didn't resonate like the ones above it. Love Ray though.

If I could only have 1 I would pick Invasion because of the sheer volume of drum options and ability to mix it for any project.

Yeah its a game changer. A lot of work but only once then you can pull stuff up instantly

Thank you. On the drum bus I use virtual mix rack and jst clip. On the master I use virtual tape machine, bus compression, clipper and limiter

Looks like they just dropped individual plugins instead of fixing this. Unfortunately

That's the best part. Your ranking is completely different and still 100% correct for you.

So depending on the size of the project but I don't usually need to freeze. I will sometimes bounce out the audio and delete the routing afterwards and mix the audio files once I'm too that point.

@@ADistortedPerception thank you for replying. I've been searching for this for days and you gave me some luck since I found the solution between my question and your answer. I was freezing by selecting the track with Kontakt and to achieve what I wanted I had to select that track and the tracks with the channels the Kontakt track is routing to. It's that easy but didn't cross my mind.

No problem, I'm glad it was helpful. I save multiple routed drums once I get them to the point I like as a template. After that it's easy to drop them into a track. Most of the time I mix on the individually routed tracks and never freeze or bounce to audio. Whatever your system can handle.

@@ADistortedPerception Yep I get it. I'm returning to Reaper and the first track template I created was Khrim Drums! This whole freeze thing is because I have guitars, bass, drums and then big orchestra and synths and effects, it gets messy for my computer. To avoid issues I just commit everything to audio before mixing and freezing is just convenient.

Check out my series of mixing with Free Plugins and I have a list of all free plugins you could swap out.

@@ADistortedPerception you’re the best, thanks man!

No problem, might take a little more but you should be able to get there. Good luck

That's how I have it too. I pretty much use Mixwave and Krimh exclusively in my Frankenkits. Sometimes I still use Invasion for certain things but that's about it on the GGD front.

When I add midi guitar I use the DI settings and process them like real guitar DIs

Glad you enjoyed it! 🤘

I have a video on how to route Kontakt drums in reaper. Fairly recent

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ha-Th9F-qpjGh4U.html

@@ADistortedPerception Thanks man, going through this tonight. Any chance you can show how you setup that EQ (your settings, not installing it). I am using the same Fabfilter EQ

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pt-qa5B6spi5Zqs.htmlsi=_SgVqx8SxuGxG4zr This is my Frankenkit video and you can click thru and I show all my processing from kick and snare to drum bus. Let me know if that isn't what you are looking for.

@@ADistortedPerception Yes, if you can put something together showing how you setup your EQ for the kick and whatever else, that would be awesome. First time messing with this type of thing, so I have no clue where to make the adjustments in the EQ. The Bass is easier cause that plugin is pretty straightforward. But if you have something showing how to setup the EQ, that would be fantastic. The way you have this kit setup is exactly what I have been searching for in SD3 for a few months now.

This Kit has way more options than either of those kits with at least 5 different kick drums alone. I like the Cymbals in Mangini over either of those kits combined. The amount of Velocities are way more detailed in the Mangini kit also. I still love the Gorjira shells more but I like to combine both kits. Also this has way more shell options than either and the shells are very different. Hope this helps!

Everyone's list is different. How would you rank them?

Everyone was really amazing but Danny Elfmans performance was my favorite. I had no clue what to expect but he killed it. I would see him again.

I will definitely check it out. I caught some of their set at Sick New World this past weekend. They sounded great.

I dont have experience with Edrums but I trigger everything with EZDRUMMER. I have a video on how I trigger Kontakt with EZDRUMMER so I imagine if you set that up and then trigger with an Ekit you can control Mangini

It was certainly tough sledding and my ranking might be different tomorrow, 😆. Thanks for watching 🤘

Thanks for Watching 🤘

Appreciate it. I have like 50 different Frankenkits but this was a combo I fell in love with. Especially since it required very little processing.

His screams are definitely on point. Cleans aren't that bad. I think they have potential as a band.

Awesome. Hope it was helpful and thanks for watching 🤘

Agreed. Jonathan hates it and not a lot of people rank it low but I absolutely love it.

That's very weird. If you set up the outputs in Kontakt first and then have kontakt create the outputs in your daw, then assign them inside the plugin to corresponding outputs then everything should work.

yea so far tried a new project with the outputs already set as default. Still same issue, trying the snare on output 3, give a muffled sound, at the same time stereo is also picking up. Dunno maybe its my reaper and using Luke Holland kit.

Sorry just seen this. The muffled sound seems like some other issue going on, maybe something with Luke Holland. I do this method with every Kontakt drum library along with multiple Frankenkits and have never had that issue.

@@ADistortedPerception its okay, managed to get it to work. Forgot what i did, just moving outputs back and forth. But yea for sure its in my end.

Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching 🤘

@@ADistortedPerception also, as soon as I finished this video, I listened to koRns self titled and, GAWD DAM ITS GOOD!

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Yeah as far as Mixwave kits go, this one is not one of the best. It's very specific and I absolutely never use it lol so I feel you. Gojira or Mangini is the way to go.

@@ADistortedPerception yeah man. I knew I should've gotten the Gojira kit. I should've trusted my gut. It doesn't sound that bad in a full mix but solo... They're kinda weird sounding. Oh well. Live and learn. Lol.

Just input midi expression pedal on Amazon. They have a few cheap options if you have a midi keyboard with an expression pedal input

line 6 fbv express mkii if you don't have a midi keyboard with expression

@@ADistortedPerception Thank you very much amigo..!!!!