Best 60’s PoP midi pack?

[songhead]

Very surprisingly I have not found the basic beats used to create some of the best music ever…in many peoples opinion

Ringo Beach Boys Byrds AM radio hits Brill Building California Sunshine PoP

Wrecking Crew type of stuff.

Here are some of my songs…….

Just listen to the first song. You will get the idea.
https://sunrisehighway.bandcamp.com/album/sunrise-highway

Thanks for any input!

Best 60’s PoP midi pack?

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[Scott]

Do you use EZD2? If so, you can check out all MIDI from Toontrack in EZdrummer 2 by clicking “Show Web Shop MIDI” button in the search tab. This will give you previews of the MIDI that’s available to purchase in the web shop. If you find a MIDI groove that you like, click the blue button at the left side of the file and it will tell you from what MIDI pack the MIDI file comes from.

Scott Sibley - Toontrack
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[onewayout_1]

@songhead said:
Very surprisingly I have not found the basic beats used to create some of the best music ever…in many peoples opinion

Ringo Beach Boys Byrds AM radio hits Brill Building California Sunshine PoP

Wrecking Crew type of stuff.

Here are some of my songs…….

Just listen to the first song. You will get the idea.
https://sunrisehighway.bandcamp.com/album/sunrise-highway

Thanks for any input!

Best 60’s PoP midi pack?  

Hey how did you get MIKE LOVE to sing for you? (-‘

Nice stuff!!

[songhead]

That was Carl Wilson.

Thanks man!

[songhead]

Thanks Scott

The samples from each pack did not sound right…..but that was just trying the samples that were at sweetwater. Perhaps the method you mentioned I will find more samples to try. I do have EZ2…..Still, from what I have heard Toontrack seems to not have a lot of beats that would be so obviously needed for songwriters in my genre.

The rock is too hard rock and the pop is “modern rock” or whatever sounds…but I’m not hearing Hal Blaine, Steve Gadd, Jim Keltner stuff that you would find on hit singles from the 60’s/70’s.

Is there a forum where users trade the midi grooves that they made?

[David George]

@songhead said:The rock is too hard rock and the pop is “modern rock” or whatever sounds…but I’m not hearing Hal Blaine, Steve Gadd, Jim Keltner stuff that you would find on hit singles from the 60’s/70’s. 

I have found that by reducing the velocity for entire clips I can make some of this “hard” sounding stuff sound really good and more appropriate for what I do. Just a suggestion. On the last track I put together I reduced the velocity to -45 and it was perfect.

[onewayout_1]

Nice Tip!!

[David George]

Thanks.

I was very frustrated when I first got EZD2 because everything seemed BOOM BOOM BOOM.

But as I experimented I found that adjustments to the velocity (not the audio volume) could accomplish a lot.

Think about it: If John Bonham and Charlie Watts were to play the same basic beat, the only difference would be that Bonham would hit at least twice as hard. Since I prefer Charlie, the velocity comes down.

[Nicholas DiFabbio]

Nice stuff.
Maybe except for the drums?
Seriously though, very nice

[Anonymous]

well i caved and bought the 60’s pop groove midi tracks and the soul grooves. Seriously disappointed in all of the files. They use the description and plug in names like 60’s era musicians: “Pop and rock players like Bobby Orr, Mick Avory, Keith Moon, Levon Helm, Charlie Watts, Mitch Mitchell, Ringo Starr and others in many ways rewrote the role the drums used to have in a pop or rock song. “But in actuality, they really suck. the only two straight 4/4 tracks are named “sloppy Tequila, and satisfied jack. That’s it. There are hundreds of variations but all with the same two names only. There is no artist grooves at all. fifty bucks for nothing.For the ballad 4/4 the only tracks are all named Pale Angie, and none are basic 4/4 grooves from that era.

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