I would recommend choosing plug-ins it based on what they can do and not based on how they look. And I think with this free version, which has no time limit, some may have a chance to really try the product and actually take some time to learn how to use it and see just how great it really is. It does have a learning curve, which I believe is the main reason why I think some are discouraged. If you want a fairly simple 4/4 groove with six or eight fills to choose from, Groove Agent or Abbey Road or Studio Drummer may be fine but if you want a complex song that sounds like an actual drummer, Jamstix is better. Where Jamstix REALLY blows others away is when you start getting into things like odd time signatures, ghost snares, tom grooves, rudiment patterns. You can even take a MIDI loop and drop it into Jamstix and it will “humanize” it by slightly varying the timing and velocities, adding or skipping hits, accents, and generating fills based on the player chosen or style chosen. You can customize each kit piece such as the snare, kick, and hi-hat individually. In Jamstix, there are so many ways you can define how you want the groove to sound.

You can modify them somewhat but you still don’t really have anywhere near the “control” that you have in Jamstix. With Groove Agent and Abbey Road and the other “MIDI Loop” based drum modules, you pretty much have to write the song around the choice of grooves available. I admit that I don’t know much about using the script language in Kontakt but I am not sure it is even possible to use it to create fills and accents in that way.Īnyway, I have to say that I have Absolute 3 and Komplete Ultimate 11 and I use Jamstix almost exclusively on pretty much ALL my projects. It is a drummer that actually creates drum grooves and modifies them with accents and fills, etc. They can focus on the samples and use script language and controls to affect the samples and how they are presented or played. In my understanding, the real advantage of using Kontakt is that the developer doesn’t have to create the “behind the scenes” programming. I am also curious why making it a Kontakt instrument would be a good idea. The latest JS3 version was 3.6.5, which was pretty solid.

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