drum machine help...

[e.white]

i am looking for a drum program that sounds good and lets me program/write my own beats. (and hopefully is easy to use) the style of music i play is mostly hard rock/metal. i have tried using ez drummer and particularly drumkit from hell but i find it too difficult to create my own patterns, and i would rather have a standalone program that i can create beats in, save them as wav files, and then import into my recording software. is there software that can do this? I have tried to use the seqencer in adobe audition to create beats with dfh, but no success. also any tips for using ez drummer would be helpful as well. what is the best seqencer out there for arranging patters from ez drummer into a song?

 

[suprstar]

What kind of DAW software are you using? Cubase is easy to put together midi, esp. with ezdrummer. You can use any midi controller to record yourself in real time, or program by clicking on the piano roll. If real time recording is too laggy, you can adjust your driver settings and get latency down to near zero, assuming your pc isn't ancient. Of course you can quantize, copy, paste, etc. In ezd you can drag beats and fills out of 'grooves' or whatever it's called onto your midi track and very quickly put together a rough track for an entire song. I've found NOTHING easier than cubase and ezdrummer.

 

[e.white]

i believe i'm going to give cubase a try. for recording live instruments i use either cakewalk guitar tracks pro or adobe audition (mostly for effects and mastering) audition has a sequencer but it doesnt seem to like ez drummer too much.