Analogue Drums specialise in recording drum kits to tape and releasing the results as sample sets for use in Battery and Kontakt. The samples are loose WAV files, so are available for mapping in other formats, such as sfz.
I originally did Natural Drum Kit layout mappings of two of their kits - Big Mono and RockStock - and have subsequently complete mappings using the "native" layout for Big Mono, PopSticks, RockStock and SplitSticks; this includes separate snare maps for all the Snare City snares, too.
Having bought RockStock, I went ahead and bought everything else Analogue Drums had available at the time! That covers PopSticks, SplitSticks and the Snare City add-on pack.
As noted below for RockStock, SFZ (the sample player) has a severe limitation with large sample sets - it wants to load everything into RAM. Even if you have plenty, the time taken at start up can be annoying, so you are recommended to use a player that supports streaming.
Included in the first archive are the individual sfz mappings per kit piece, along with kit mappings and ARIA Player ".ariax" files for the kits. The second archive contains additional kit mappings compatible with LinuxSampler. For PopSticks and RockStock, the kits do not include a snare - pick one from the piece mappings.
This first archive (78K zip) should be extracted alongside the Kontakt, Battery and Wav folders for the kits. For users of LinuxSampler, this second archive (15K zip) should also be extracted to the same location and the kits used in place of the ones in the first file.
As a taster of their wares, Analogue Drums released the Big Mono kit. It's a pretty neat kit, too, recorded in mono with not too much room sound.
Once you've downloaded the samples, create a "sfz" folder along side the Battery and Kontakt folders and put the sfz mapping in there.
This mapping (5K zip) follows the Natural Drum Kit layout (with some duplication to fill the gaps - but I have not created "new" drums or cymbals where none existed in the Big Mono kit).
OK, so I liked Big Mono so much I went and bought RockStock. It's very nice, comes with close and room mic'd samples and a very large number of kit pieces. In fact, as many pieces as Natural Drum Kit. So it does benefit from being used in a disk streaming sampler, like Kontakt. Of course, you may want to try it in SFZ...
The mapping uses the floor positions of Natural Drum Kit as a guide - so the actual kit pieces do not necessary match perfectly. I felt this was a better approach than trying to shoehorn things around. Of course, there still needed to be duplication to match the range of samples Natural Drum Kit comes with - but then, it comes in at about 6GB for the rock kit and this is a "mere" 873MB..!
SFZ will try to load this into RAM. If it cannot find a contigious chunk for a sample, it will silently fail. If you don't hear one or more notes, this may be what has happened.
Last updated: 3 June 2011
Correct amp_veltrack on "native" mappings.
1 June 2011: Corrected octave on "native" mappings.
25 May 2011: Released ARIA / native mappings.
5 June 2009: Added RockStock and replaced Big Mono with a zip.
3 June 2009: first version.