by Per Ulfhielm | Jul 20, 2020 | Articles and Tutorials, Blog
This is how you add an OddGrooves MIDI pack to Steven Slate Drums 5.5: Save your new OddGrooves pack on your hard drive. Locate the folder with the .lib extension and copy it to the “Grooves” folder located in the SSD5 Library (this varies depending on...
by Per Ulfhielm | Jul 20, 2020 | Articles and Tutorials, Blog
This is how you add an OddGrooves pack to Native Instruments Studio Drummer: Save your new OddGrooves pack on your hard drive. Locate the folder marked with “NI Studio Drummer” and copy it to the “MIDI Files” folder located in the Studio...
by Per Ulfhielm | Jul 1, 2020 | Articles and Tutorials, Blog
This is how you add an OddGrooves pack to Toontrack’s Superior Drummer 3: Save your new OddGrooves pack where you normally keep your grooves, samples etc Navigate to the Grooves page in SD3 and click on the barely visible button named “Grooves” top...
by Per Ulfhielm | May 12, 2020 | Uncategorized
The 2020 Lockdown Song Contest is over, and we have chosen four winners out of a total of 50 tracks. This was not an easy task, I assure you, as there were so many good songs! So, without further ado, here are the winners: Winner #1 is Saulo Valerio Saulo Valerio Hi,...
by Per Ulfhielm | Apr 1, 2020 | Blog, Free drum grooves, Uncategorized
16th note shuffle funk, a style that we like to refer to as Bumpy, and is a type of groove you frequently hear from artists such as Stevie Wonder and James Brown, but also Toto, Sting and Peter Gabriel. Magnus got the inspiration from Vinnie Colaiuta, Per Lindvall,...
by Per Ulfhielm | Dec 7, 2019 | Blog, Free drum grooves, Uncategorized
What is a jam? A MIDI drum jam is a 32-bar drum groove that you can use as a starting point for a tune, practise other instruments to or simply play along with, whether you are a guitarist, keyboard player, bassist, songwriter or whatever. Just like all of our...
by Per Ulfhielm | May 5, 2019 | Uncategorized
Do yourself a favor and check out this big band version of Mihai Sorohan’s excellent track Splash, on which Magnus plays drums. This is a pretty good example of wha you get when you hire Magnus for a custom drum...
by Per Ulfhielm | Feb 22, 2019 | Blog, Free drum grooves, Uncategorized
Isn’t it time we did something jazzy? Of course it is! We have a brand new JAZZ WALTZ pack coming up, and you can listen to two sound clips using the Soundcloud player right next to this text. The first one is Toots Thielemans’ classic Bluesette, performed...
by Per Ulfhielm | Oct 24, 2018 | Blog, Free drum grooves, Uncategorized
Here’s a bunch of funky MIDI drum grooves inspired by neo-soul and hip hop, and artists such as D’Angelo and Erykah Badu. Listen to our short demo tracks below and then click the big, ugly yellow button that says “Download” to get your hands on...
by Per Ulfhielm | Jun 9, 2018 | Blog
A while ago, I was playing around with a cover version of Rival Sons’ excellent tune Open My Eyes, just for fun. Such a good song! My version sounded pretty bland though, especially with my lame vocals, which are very far away from Jay Buchanan. The first draft...