Analogue Drums specialise in recording drum kits to tape and releasing the results as sample sets for use in Battery and Kontakt. As a taster of their wares, they have release 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: 5 June 2009
Added RockStock and replaced Big Mono with a zip
3 June 2009: first version