Lex Luger & 808 Mafia drum kits are standard, then get free Just Blaze drumkit and you are ready to go. No matter how much you want to be unique with using house pack for making trap music, it won't work much... you can create something with same tempo and rhythm patterns as trap, but it won't be trap music because it will lack sounds that are signature for the genre and are specially contained in these genre-specific packs - you won't find 808s in trance pack, trap snares in DnB samples, sirens in Soul pack etc. Why to limit yourself using samples that doesn't fit the genre? I believe even with already milion times used packs/samples you can create something signature and unique if you give it the right processing/edit/idea - pick obvious "hey" chant, stretch it, filter it, or play it as an instrument in sampler and suddenly you've created something less obvious!

If you still want to use packs fro other genres, I'd start with dubstep packs - people often mix dubstep with trap, it fits well, you have whole genre built around it: "hybrid trap"
For nice percussion and random sounds I recommend deadmau5 Xfer pack. I also recommend getting some KRNE pack, he makes really cool sounds. then there is Wallmart drums by Cymatics (for free), that has interesting sounds in it too. Sometimes I even use KSHMR pack for soem trap stuff.

Quote from: Pzychosis on April 01, 2016, 08:41:34 pm

I've been checking this person's stuff alot recently and honestly, best in the game, wish they got more recognition! http://bit.ly/18gLpHB

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April fools bro!

firstly, I'm not anywhere near sending demos, but here are few tips I catched when I was thinking and learning about promoting:
When?
- you should send demos to channels and labels only when you are 100% satisfied with your sound and mix. Make your first impression count
- talking about building a fanbase, It does no harm to start collect followers on SC and Facebook even before your first song upload. It's the numbers of followers that count when you send your profile links to labels.
How?
- if you aren't established, sending promo to Trapcity, Suicide Sheep etc. is a waste of time for both sides. These channels are very picky and most of the time you need to know the guys that uploads songs there. I'd suggest 2 things: First - do some good research around the youtube and find medium/small sized channels that uploads their good music in genre you make. Secondly, try to make contact with owners of these channels, and not by sending them promo in the first message. You can show them how big fan of them you are, bring them some value from you... make friends with them
- you can reach some following even through cliché stuff like youtube comments, if stick to ORIGINALITY of the comment, not typical "I'm 12 years old bedroom producer, check my channel" but comment songs relevant to your style with something like "can you imagine this song with sax intro and in 110 BPM? Give my channel a try!"...

my two eurocents here.
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As much annoying as it could sound, producer/dj nowadays also has to be manager, visual artist, blogger and tons of other professions  (at least in the beginning)

If you feel like your music can attract people, you should encourage yourself and start to learn a bit of a marketing - there are tons of youtube videos (balancing with quality) about "selling yourself" as an artist, this should at least give you some basic understanding.

More than that it's just about opening the doors that nobody openned before you = you need to find unique way of how to get heard, not only sitting on soundcloud. This path is full of tries and fails and YOU need to discover one path that suits you best.
Few examples of original breakthrough:
myspace.com - Justice, Skrillex (closed door nowadays  )
showing unique content on youtube - Madeon (Pop Culture made him widely known)
Reddit - (I think) was a place that helped KRNE
Create unique-style remixes - Kygo

Or just put a mask on and create this "mysterious artist" persona 

As you can see, nobody followed one formula how to reach so many people, they had to open unused "doors" to success

I've been using cymatic's jack you vol. 1 drum pack a lot recently. Great for dubstep and trap tracks!

Sorry, but these are just overcompressed f*cks. I must say Wallmart drums are a treasure tho, plus they're free.
Because I just can't seem to stick to one genre, I use various packs depending on genre:
for all kinds of house songs I love Singomakers Mainroom House - you can find some nice drums, especially kicks and snares
For trap/hiphop stuff I like Blvck sheep drumkit (it's for free so get it ) Phonotix pack ("best selection from free drumkits on the internet") and some stuff from KRNE sample pack is pretty sweet too
(free) honorable mentions: Metroo Boomin Razer pack, Quix sample pack, Trisamples 808 trapstep pack 1,2

Quote from: daimon on March 12, 2016, 08:51:32 pm

Sidechain Compressor by db Audioware all the way. Not so commonly known, but for example Afrojack uses it too.

Afrojack uses SIDEKICK

Maybe now, but 2-3 years ago in interview with Computer music or Future music mag he said he uses db Audioware's

I haven't released anything for almost a year now. Year ago I uploaded last song, which is by now deleted off my SC, because I realized how shitty it was. My musical taste and what I do changed a lot since that time, I decided to completely reboot my "persona" - new name, professional logo and artworks, new attitude. Right now I'm working a lot of songs and I'm quite happy, as I said to myself I won't release any song until I feel it's finished.
Some people say that forcing yourself to work under a pressure of deadline helps them finish the songs, I stopped doing remix comps because I realized I don't work well under deadlines, mix and everything sounds really bad.