Drums ?

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I use an SBlive Sound card and at the moment I can utilise 2 drum sounds, How can I use other drum kits without linking by midi to drum Machines, etc. I have downloaded Drum samples but can I use a midi pattern to trigger these samples? Also what is the picture cache? It fills with .wov files can I delete them after finishing with a project?
Thanks for any help
 
I can answer half your question. The picture cache stores the "pictures" of your .wav files. I believe if they are deleted, Cakewalk will redraw them the next time you open the project. Certainly if you are finished with a project there is no need to keep them on your hard drive.

I would recommend that you create a backup .bun file of your "finished" projects though. You can do this on CD-R's or CD-RW's. Never know when you might need them again.
 
LiveWare comes with a Roland GS sample bank that contains something like 10 drum kits or so. From the Soundfont application in the Live control panel, make sure that you have this bank loaded. When you assign your drums to channel 10, it's best to assign the "Roland GS" definition through the "intruments" button so you can see which patch # is which drum kit. For some reason they are not sequentially numbered. I'm not sure if I've answered your question, might have gone off on a tangent, but hopefully someone will find this useful.
 
One of the great things about the SB Live is its Sound Font support. You can get other sound sets saved in Sound Font format and the SB Live becomes a remarkably flexible bargain MIDI device. Not just drums, but entire GM soundsets, ethnic percussion, techno/industrial/ambient synths and drum machine sounds, specialty instruments, even sound effects and loops that can be played from the keyboard as if they were notes. There are some sample Sound Font sets that come with the SB Live. You can also get a bunch for free off the web. A particularly good site is Hammersound:

http://www.hammersound.net/

Sonic Implants have particularly good ones for sale:

http://www.sonicimplants.com/sonicimplantproduct.asp

I have downloaded Drum samples but can I use a midi pattern to trigger these samples?
If you mean you downloaded WAV files that have kick, snare, cymbals etc. being struck once, these are not as directly useful, because to play them as if they were MIDI notes, you have to load them into a MIDI instrument. However, the application for creating and editing your own Sound Fonts, called Vienna Studio (I believe that's the name), is free (and should have come along with your SB Live). Learning to use it is not easy, it's a lot like programming hardware synths and samplers, but once you do you can make Sound Fonts out of any source material.
 
re drum sf files

Thanks for the info I learnt a great deal. I am having trouble trying to find these sf. files through cakewalk, I can utilise them using the SB live keyboard , no problems so I guess I have put them in the right spot and loaded them ok using soundfont editor in audio hq. But just cant use them through Cake, and have tried just about everything to the extent that it starts to confuse me.
went to the site you suggested, thanks.
 
whhoooaa stop everything.

I worked it out, Just like to thank you guys for your help.
Back to grind of home recording.lol
 
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