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Redfeather
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Link Posted on Nov 12 2018 07:40 PM

I found this small selection of surf beats available for free and I can confirm that they work in Abbey Road 50's Drummer. They're not amazing and they all use a 4 on the floor but they're pretty decent.

https://groovemonkee.com/pages/beat-farm-free-midi-beats

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edwardsand
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Link Posted on Nov 14 2018 04:27 PM

Thanks - those will come in handy. Do you know of any other groups of surf-like MIDI drum files?

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Merlin
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Link Posted on Nov 14 2018 06:30 PM

Thanks for those! I'm always looking for more drum stuff.

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PTPDennis
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Link Posted on Feb 11 2019 08:06 AM

This is a good collection that I play with from time to time... http://www.happydogmedia.com/rockabillymasters.aspx
Not EXACTLY surf, but certainly in the neighborhood... and at that price its hard to pass up

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Skiltrip
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Link Posted on Aug 13 2020 09:36 PM

I'm STILL on the hunt for Surf MIDI grooves. Toontrack has a metric ton of MIDI loop libraries at this point, but NO surf pack, or even surf-punk. It's such a fun and lively style of drums, and they've released every possible take on metal grooves, yet they keep doing more.
The core surf beats are easy to program manually, but it's those bombastic surf fills that are very hard to hand build with midi notes. And just the overall live feel of a drummer playing surf. It's just not quantized. It's loose and free by design. Hard to replicate it manually.

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SHADOWNIGHT5150
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Link Posted on Aug 14 2020 03:41 AM

i use superior drummer 3 and just take a standard drum beat and add the extra snare hits

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