The Search for Drum Sounds With Real Character
A personal story told by a music producer who spent years digging through sample packs that sounded too digital, too compressed or flat. Unable to afford the drum machines behind the sounds they loved, they searched online and found the Roland 909 and 606, whose punch, clarity and character became their benchmark. That reference inspired them to create their own digital drum machines and sample libraries. It is drawn in the Crude Doodle style with rough marker gags, suited to producers and beat makers.
Storytelling Crude Doodle style
- Voice
- Eleanor
- Language
- English
- Length
- 0:44
The brief
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Make a vertical (9:16) first person story of about 45 seconds about a music producer's long search for drum sounds with character. Show the producer digging through endless sample packs that sound too digital, too compressed or flat, with a running joke about drum machines that cost far too much. Follow the search online until a slower, dramatic reveal of the Roland 909 and 606, whose punch, clarity and character become the benchmark. End with the producer building their own digital drum machines and sample libraries. Use a warm, reflective British narrator and a crude marker doodle look with humorous physical gags, with visual drum hit cues and no music or sound effects.
The script
For years, I kept searching for sample packs that sounded right. Most didn’t. Some felt too digital, others too compressed, and many simply had no character. I wanted drums with punch and clarity, but the machines that made those sounds were far too expensive for me to own. So I went looking online instead. That’s where I found sounds from the Roland nine-oh-nine and six-oh-six. They had the punch, clarity, and character I’d been missing. Those sounds became my benchmark: the reference I kept returning to whenever I made music. And, in time, they inspired me to create my own digital drum machines and sample libraries.
