guitarjesus said:
Dimebag and Zook250
I read up on the 323 and listened to some demos. Great sounding.
Now I have a few more questions.
When you program the Bass, you program with letter notes right. Like a E note to a B note and make progressions like that right?
Now the smartcard. Is that for only storing files. Can I down load it to my PC and burn it on a disk?
Can I use something like Cakewalk Pro9 to record with the 323?
Regarding the bass :
Nope, you would either play the pads in real time (and assign whatever note you want, to whatever pad you want), og record in "step-mode". These modes are the same as for programming drums.
Recording in real time means that when you have decided how long your pattern is going to be, you start recording. Then pattern-playback start, and whenever you hit a pad (velocity-sensitive ones... cool, huh???) that "hit" is recorded, whether it is bass or drums. Pattern keeps playing back until it reaches its end, and then start over. This is my preferred way of making patterns, since it gives a more "live-feel" I think. Another thing is, if you at a certain point in you pattern have a bassdrum, for example... when you are recording and playing another bassdrum-hit at the same point, the last one played is the only one audible... They are not "stack-able"... not that it matters musch, but nice to know... (instead of making one hit a little too hard, then stop recording just to edit it out manually)
Recording in step-mode, means that you go through the pattern one step at a time, and put in your pad-tabs (again, no matter if it is bass or drums)... You have the quantizing feature, which basically means "how-many-steps-per-quarternote", meaning 4 steps in a bar, 8 step per step in a bar...get it??? I'm Danish... this is my best try to explain...
Regarding the smartcard... Nope, I don't think it's possible to edit or do anything to the smartcard with your PC. It's only purpose is to backup all your self-made drumkits, patterns and songs from the 323... and possibly moving them to some other Zoom device... This may sound like you'd never need that feature, but think about it... Every song you make take up several patterns, and if you only can make 100 (not sure about this number for the 323... it's 100 for the 123) it will not give you room for that many songs, thus backup everything to a card, insert another card, make new songs... You will still be able to get your old songs back, which may come in handy... Read below...
Regarding recording : Yes, off course you can record it, BUT you may not want to!!! I use
a Korg D1200 instead of Cakewalk, but the basic idea is the same. You use your PC or Korg as Midi-time-master, and whenever you hit play on your PC the 323 will start playing... This means that I can Record 12 tracks on my Korg, and none of them drums from the Zoom... The drums are only monitored during recording... This gives me the opportunity to change drumkit or whatever during the entire recording phase, and not decide upon the drumsound until I reach mixdown-time....
Hope I made at least a little bit of sense...
Dime....
