Yamaha MOTIF XF Owner's Manual - page 2
Introduction
Thank you for purchasing the DCP Productions "Studio Drums" library for
the Yamaha Motif XF synthesizer workstation. This library utilizes over
235 MB megabytes of new samples, therefore you will need a 512MB
flashboard installed in your XF in order to use it. 2 GB of flash memory
(two 1 GB flashboards) is recommended so you can install other libraries.
"Studio Drums" was conceived to answer many requests for a more
comprehensive library of drums for the Motif XF. It features 32 new User
Kits and 50 new drum arpeggios (including brush kit, alternative rock,
metal, surf-rock, shuffle and reggae/ska arpeggios). Kits include brush
kits, ambient and room kits, hard rock and heavy metal kits, funk
drumsets, jazz kit ,special effects kits, even a "vintage 70's style" kit of
drums recorded with towels placed over the heads! The library contains
almost 110 MB of stereo cymbals and gongs, including rolls, crashes, bell,
ride, brush and shank hits, as well as splash and rivet cymbals. Finally,
there is an assortment of percussion sounds included, such as stereo and
mono hand claps, fingersnaps, tambourine hits, shakes, and rolls, cymbal
stand and hoop rim hits, and “kitchen” percussion such as struck plates,
saucers, and forks and knives.
The kits and arpeggios load automatically as an ALL file. A separate file of
the 50 drum arpeggios is included for backup purposes or cases where
you want to build a library of kits from different sources and wish to
include the user arps.
The sampling and programming for "Studio Drums" was done by Dave
Polich, who has been a longtime sound programmer for Yamaha, Korg,
Dave Smith Instruments, Native Instruments, Roland and other
manufacturers.