appreciate the detail you went into ...playing on the pads really helped give a sense of how responsive this instrument is - good work, and thanks for doing this
I have bought a couple of UJAM products in the past and really enjoy them. Allows us to be creative and get music ideas from them. I do not have their DRUM software. Thanks for showing the UJAM Drum video and take care.
Is there a way to customize how your midi controller corresponds to each component of the drum? For example, the kick starts at C1 and everything before that is unused. If you wanted to add an additional kick for, lets say, a double bass part which would be easier to play on two keys, could you add an additional kick drum to B1 and still have C1 next to it as a kick as well? This would be really useful. Great video, thank you!!
All of these ujam vd plugins need to be mixed properly otherwise they sound dull and often muffled. I wish you could click one button to switch to multi-out for the task but every time i load one of these, i have to manually go through each instrument and set it to independent out. Once you do so, the drums really come alive.
NI has 6 or 7 virtual drum instruments in Komplete standard. The Studio Drummer has similar sounds. Do you have a preference between UJAM and NI use of key switches, patterns and articulations?
Honestly I don't have a lot of Experience with the NI Drums. For Patterns I would probably choose UJAM, but for realism I usually go with Addictive Drums
I'm using an older Alesis Percpad. Pretty good with the big flaw that it's strictly monophonic, so when you hit two pads at the (exact) same time, one will not play
Realizing the point of UJAM is simplicity I have to say the cure for nasty hats, indeed for all cymbals if you're looking for a vintage vibe with modern hats is a high pass filter. Years ago when all of our sampler libraries came with good, bad and often unusable thick hats and cymbals HPF was the cure. Rarely does anyone master with the mids cranked. The "beef" in hats has to go or they get pushed too far back. It's good you're honest, though. But if a tool does the job with one iffy bit, solo it out and tweak it even if it's more work.
I have never tried ezdrummer. But from what I know these are definitely trying to fill the same role. Difference might be that ezdrummer has bigger sample libraries and I think ez drummer also is just one plugin with many expansions, while UJAM Drums make many plugins with different styles
Somehow I prefer Hot, Deep and Solid to this one. The sounds didn't grab me as much as I hoped for and the patterns are not as varied as in the before mentioned products. I might be wrong but that's my impression after demoing it. The picture (gui) hints at Silk Sonic but these drums sound nowhere near. Late seventies maybe, yeah. Not a bad product but the ones before are better, imho. Plus Ujam needs to fix the ujam app to install only chosen formats, not vst2-4, vst3 and aax...
appreciate the detail you went into ...playing on the pads really helped give a sense of how responsive this instrument is - good work, and thanks for doing this
Thank you!
I have bought a couple of UJAM products in the past and really enjoy them. Allows us to be creative and get music ideas from them. I do not have their DRUM software.
Thanks for showing the UJAM Drum video and take care.
Good work ! detailed presentation of the plugins !
Good comments--thanks for the midi walkthru!
I love dry drums and these are no exception
Is there a way to customize how your midi controller corresponds to each component of the drum? For example, the kick starts at C1 and everything before that is unused. If you wanted to add an additional kick for, lets say, a double bass part which would be easier to play on two keys, could you add an additional kick drum to B1 and still have C1 next to it as a kick as well? This would be really useful. Great video, thank you!!
Thanks! I don't think there's a way within the plugin to re-map things. I can only think of transposing the midi controller 🤔
@@xantux I didn't think so. I appreciate the suggestion, will have to look into that, thanks!
All of these ujam vd plugins need to be mixed properly otherwise they sound dull and often muffled. I wish you could click one button to switch to multi-out for the task but every time i load one of these, i have to manually go through each instrument and set it to independent out. Once you do so, the drums really come alive.
NI has 6 or 7 virtual drum instruments in Komplete standard. The Studio Drummer has similar sounds. Do you have a preference between UJAM and NI use of key switches, patterns and articulations?
Honestly I don't have a lot of Experience with the NI Drums. For Patterns I would probably choose UJAM, but for realism I usually go with Addictive Drums
Nice! I was gonna skip this one, maybe not ... what drum pad are you using? Thanks!
I'm using an older Alesis Percpad. Pretty good with the big flaw that it's strictly monophonic, so when you hit two pads at the (exact) same time, one will not play
nice video thanks
What model Kawai are you using?
The MP-7 :)
Realizing the point of UJAM is simplicity I have to say the cure for nasty hats, indeed for all cymbals if you're looking for a vintage vibe with modern hats is a high pass filter. Years ago when all of our sampler libraries came with good, bad and often unusable thick hats and cymbals HPF was the cure. Rarely does anyone master with the mids cranked. The "beef" in hats has to go or they get pushed too far back. It's good you're honest, though. But if a tool does the job with one iffy bit, solo it out and tweak it even if it's more work.
The UJAM hihat sounds are also always bothering me :(
How it's compared to Ezdrummer? From the top they seems kinda similar in their purpose
I have never tried ezdrummer. But from what I know these are definitely trying to fill the same role. Difference might be that ezdrummer has bigger sample libraries and I think ez drummer also is just one plugin with many expansions, while UJAM Drums make many plugins with different styles
Somehow I prefer Hot, Deep and Solid to this one. The sounds didn't grab me as much as I hoped for and the patterns are not as varied as in the before mentioned products. I might be wrong but that's my impression after demoing it. The picture (gui) hints at Silk Sonic but these drums sound nowhere near. Late seventies maybe, yeah. Not a bad product but the ones before are better, imho.
Plus Ujam needs to fix the ujam app to install only chosen formats, not vst2-4, vst3 and aax...
Does it automatically sync to the key of your project or you need to adjust the tune?
This doesn't follow the key in any way. But I'd say with drums you usually don't pitch them to specific notes, but you could do so manually
I have never found them useful, they’re too limiting and sound quality isn’t very convincing.