Hi,
I am a very non-serious bedroom musician but I am getting frustrated with one aspect of recording - drums.
Here is my current setup
Cubase 5 on Win98
Yamaha SY22 (very old, but the sounds do for me)
Alesis SR16 drums
Alesis Quadraverb
Tascam 8 Track
The fact is, I hate creating my own drum patterns and I'm not very good at it. I've tried getting hold of midi drum patterns but even then I can never seem to get them into a shape I like. I have been toying with the idea of a sampler for some time for using loops and doing it that way, but I am looking for ideas really.
The sounds in my SR16 are not fantastic but they would probably do. I'm more interested in the patterns themselves, but if there's something that helps me do both at the same time, that's great.
Obviously, cost is an issue because getting something that's too expensive would be pointless, because I would be unable to play due to 2 broken arms, courtesy of the missus.
There you go then. Sick of writing crap drum patterns and need something with a bit more class.
Can you suggest anything? What do you lot out there use?
I am a very non-serious bedroom musician but I am getting frustrated with one aspect of recording - drums.
Here is my current setup
Cubase 5 on Win98
Yamaha SY22 (very old, but the sounds do for me)
Alesis SR16 drums
Alesis Quadraverb
Tascam 8 Track
The fact is, I hate creating my own drum patterns and I'm not very good at it. I've tried getting hold of midi drum patterns but even then I can never seem to get them into a shape I like. I have been toying with the idea of a sampler for some time for using loops and doing it that way, but I am looking for ideas really.
The sounds in my SR16 are not fantastic but they would probably do. I'm more interested in the patterns themselves, but if there's something that helps me do both at the same time, that's great.
Obviously, cost is an issue because getting something that's too expensive would be pointless, because I would be unable to play due to 2 broken arms, courtesy of the missus.
There you go then. Sick of writing crap drum patterns and need something with a bit more class.
Can you suggest anything? What do you lot out there use?