Music Programs Used in KF

[natace]

Because i'm in the process of making my own mod, a zombie mod, and have been doing so since the start of the year (mainly learning modelling and writing a crap load of documentation, plans, etc) I have to make music for the mod.
Now, I have only recently got Reason 3.0, one problem though, I can't get drums to have a really big DOOF sound (now I sound like a music junkie )...what I mean, is I am doing menu music as the first song I'm making with the program, and the song is supposed to build up, getting heavier and heavier, before dying off again at the end, and...well, I can't really get it to build up, because I want the drums to sound less like throwing a tin can onto a road, and sound more like someone kicking a drum.
In other words, the drum sound I'm after needs to be bassy...rather than soft and not so heavy.

I'm not a very big music speaking person, I don't know all the terms and stuff, so hopefully, you understand what I mean...

Uhm...the style of music I'm aiming for, for the menu, is pretty much, like the Resident Evil main theme made by Marylin Manson...it's kindof dreamy music, but ...i dunno, evil, like something terribly wrong has happened.

I'm sure you know what I mean when I refer you to that song..
But yeah..in that song, where it builds up and gets heavier, and into the drums, that is the kindof thing I want, and I just cannot, for the life of me, find a drum sound in Reason 3.0

So what programs did you guys use for KF, I really liked the music...it wasnt scary, but it was definately up beat, and gets your adrenaline pumping by using the heavy drum sounds at some stages of the songs.

Any help would be appreciated

[Rattic]

I dunno how Zynthetic did his drums, but I used a Roland drum module for the main drum tracks, and all the distorted drum loops, I created in Reason with a distortion unit connected to a mixer Aux. If you just get a drum sound nearest to what you want and then slowly increase the amount of distortion, I'm sure you'll find you can go from getting a nice punchy sound to something a lot more heavier. Also within Reason you can load any WAV file into the drum unit. So you might wanna try gettin on the net and lookin for some free drum sounds.

[zynthetic]

Reason comes w/ redrum which comes w/ several kits/lots of samples to pick from. You're only problem should be deciding which one to use
If you need to add punch add a (very) little channel distorion then an inline eq and compression.