hello all -
ive been using drum machines for quite a while now but what i really want to be able to do is program drum beats using REAL sounds, im not too clued up on whats available out there, but this is my dream process...
get together a library of live single drum sounds (wavs?)-
store them in a drum machine -
program them into serious drum patterns -
is this possible?
does anyone out there know of a magical drum machine that can let me do this.. pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease
thanks for readin
I had the same frustrating experience. The sounds in my Boss DR-660 just sounded too dated and artificial for what I was doing (straight ahead rock and power pop). So I bought a CD with acoustic drum samples from various kits on ebay. The collection is called betamonkey and it cost about 20 bucks. The drum samples sounded great, were very realistic and were in .wav format - but how to store them and recall them?
I had a LE version of Battery installed on my computer. Battery is a software based drum machine (VSTi) created by Native Instruments. Battery is basically a big matrix with a bunch of cells mapped to keyboard values. You load a sample in each cell and make sure it's mapped to your midi drum file. When you play your midi file, Battery triggers the samples stored in the corresponding cell.
With a little tweaking, my midi drums sounded incredibly realistic. You should definitely check out Battery 2 (the latest version) from Native Instruments. It could very well be your magic drum machine!!!
you should look into something like Propellerheads Reason too....I gave up on drum machines almost instantly when I found out about Reason. I still keep my korg electribe es-1 around though (since it is a sampler) SO ..if you do have a drum machine that can sample (like the ES-1) than you should look into getting a pimp drum library such as "drumkit from hell" or Akai's Bob Clearmountain drums
