Lots of great simfiles

Having finally had a couple of days off and the time to dig around the Simfile sharing and the Requests forum, it's suddenly occurred to me that there's a LOT of high quality simfiles on the site.

Back in the day there were hardly more than 4-5 good GDA makers out there, but looking at how active the forums are now, it's great to see such a good collection of simfiles!

New site: Drum PDF

Kung Hei Fat Choi, Happy Year of the Tiger everyone!

Thanks to pedropete's DTX to MIDI program, I've managed to make a couple of real drum scores from DTX files. They can now be found on my new site: http://www.drumpdf.com/

Head over now to check it out!

DTX: 恐怖の右脳改革 [Special Long Version]

One of the bonus tracks from the recent GuitarFreaks & DrumMania V6 Official Soundtrack.

This is the first time I've used DTX Creator instead of GDA Creator to make a DTX. All in all, I think this song took about 12-15 hours to make over a span of 3 weeks. My poor right (and left) brain is fizzled after making this.

Drums 1BD and 2BD version only. (16.0 MB)

Download Mirror 1 (GDAmania)

Download Mirror 2 (Mediafire)

DTX: Dream Theater - A Nightmare to Remember

From DT's new album Black Clouds and Silver Linings. This double bass in this song is incredibly difficult. It constantly shifts between 8th beats, 8th beat triplets, 16th and 16th beat triplets. Check out the blast beat near the end of the song!

I cut out some of the solo section because the drums are really repetitive in that part, but this simfile still clocks 13+ minutes.
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Acid Rain on the new kit

I don't know how Mike Portnoy can play that drum solo (at 2:37) so cleanly and accurately. It always sounds like mush when I try to play it.

Papa's got a brand new bag

My new kit arrived at long last after Parson's Music "forgot" to deliver it last week. V-Drums for V-Day.

The amount of cardboard they used to pack the kit in is pretty astonishing... guess it's still better than polystyrene.

It's sound quality is a zillion times better than the TD6, and mesh is ahhh.. nice and quiet. I can finally do some blast beats without waking the neighbour's dog.

How does it fare with DTXMania? The best part is having a cymbal to use as an escape button so I can quit a song without reaching for the keyboard? Priceless.

On second thoughts, the kit WAS darn pricey.

Video Tutorial: How to make a DTX simfile

If you are interested in making your own DTX file but aren't sure how to go about doing it, this video is for you. To see the video more clearly, select HQ (high quality).

To begin you must have the following:
GDA Creator*
DTXMania*
Drum sound files*
An image editing program (e.g. Photoshop)
A sound editing program (e.g. Adobe Audition / Audacity)

*These are available in the GDAmania Files section under accessories.