camn
Active member
you could get a set of pads w/MIDI triggers...
xoox
ps can we ditch this thread, please?
xoox
ps can we ditch this thread, please?
jwgeetar
New member
what kind of pads? like playing drums? when i play the beat to my song, will these pads record that and all the different parts to the song?
is this pads on a drum machine? all kinda ?????????????????'s. thanks again.
ps: before i invest i wanta know this is the best way of going about it.
ps #2:no, don't end this thread till i get more help--dammnit!LOL!
is this pads on a drum machine? all kinda ?????????????????'s. thanks again.
ps: before i invest i wanta know this is the best way of going about it.
ps #2:no, don't end this thread till i get more help--dammnit!LOL!
W
windowman
New member
No offence Canm but you can ditch the thread anytime you like. Piece of cake!
jwgeetar,
I tried 3 different drum machines when they first came out. They don't make for the best recordings but they sure help in shaping a song and in getting across to other musicians what you want the song to be like. I had the original Roland 606, then the 707, and then the Alesis HR16(?) or something. The Alesis was actually very good and if you spent many hours with it, you could fool people into thinking it was the real thing. Unlike the earlier Rolands, you could do away with that silly quantizing feature and make things much more human. Also unlike the Rolands, it had touch pads on it that were volocety sensative. It was really an amzing machine at the time but I haven't owned one in many years.
The pads are a good way to go but I have no idea how expensive they may be. Their like small little drum pads that you hit with drum-sticks and they have an internal synth with soundfonts to produce whatever drum sound you asign to them. Some just hook up to a synth sound modual of your choosing instead of supplying their own.
The second best way to go in my opinion is to use a simple keyboard synth. They almost all come with built in drum sounds that are pretty good. You just assign them to various keys and drum away. Of course you have to have a sequencer of some kind to record the midi and play it back. You can do that with software sequencers as well I suppose but I've never messed with them. I'm sure they'd be way cheaper though.
Lastly, there's a program called Drag n Drop Drummer that works a lot like a drum machine in that it has several prerecorded drum patterns played by a real drummer in a studio and you just select between the various patterns (I think they're mostly 8 bars) and line them up side by side in the edit window of a wave file. CakeWalk comes standard with a lite version of D & D Drummer. It's a little harder to program individual notes this way (though you CAN do it) but it certainly sounds like a real drummer because it is.
I highly recommend it as an a cheap and realistic alternative when you can't have the real thing.
http://www.dddrummer.com
jwgeetar,
I tried 3 different drum machines when they first came out. They don't make for the best recordings but they sure help in shaping a song and in getting across to other musicians what you want the song to be like. I had the original Roland 606, then the 707, and then the Alesis HR16(?) or something. The Alesis was actually very good and if you spent many hours with it, you could fool people into thinking it was the real thing. Unlike the earlier Rolands, you could do away with that silly quantizing feature and make things much more human. Also unlike the Rolands, it had touch pads on it that were volocety sensative. It was really an amzing machine at the time but I haven't owned one in many years.
The pads are a good way to go but I have no idea how expensive they may be. Their like small little drum pads that you hit with drum-sticks and they have an internal synth with soundfonts to produce whatever drum sound you asign to them. Some just hook up to a synth sound modual of your choosing instead of supplying their own.
The second best way to go in my opinion is to use a simple keyboard synth. They almost all come with built in drum sounds that are pretty good. You just assign them to various keys and drum away. Of course you have to have a sequencer of some kind to record the midi and play it back. You can do that with software sequencers as well I suppose but I've never messed with them. I'm sure they'd be way cheaper though.
Lastly, there's a program called Drag n Drop Drummer that works a lot like a drum machine in that it has several prerecorded drum patterns played by a real drummer in a studio and you just select between the various patterns (I think they're mostly 8 bars) and line them up side by side in the edit window of a wave file. CakeWalk comes standard with a lite version of D & D Drummer. It's a little harder to program individual notes this way (though you CAN do it) but it certainly sounds like a real drummer because it is.
I highly recommend it as an a cheap and realistic alternative when you can't have the real thing.
http://www.dddrummer.com
dobro
Well-known member
Camn's right - this thread has nothing to do with CEP. It would benefit *way* more people in the recording forum, or if you want to continue to discuss protools, in the computer/software forum. This really ain't the right place...
jwgeetar
New member
dobro, i saw a post concerning my needs on this thread. i got a response and thats good. at times i will post a new thread that no one will touch. you get it where you can find it my friend.Comprende?
keep'em coming!
keep'em coming!
C
computerpizz
New member
this is funny
ha ha ha.....
ha ha ha.....
dobro
Well-known member
jwgeetar - sure, I understand that, and I'm glad you're benefitting (and so did I - it's a useful thread). And it does have *something* to do with CE - I was wrong about that. I'm concerned to have things in their appropriate forums is all. This thread's mostly about Protools and getting drums on your tracks. Most people won't read about that here in the Cool Edit forum.
W
windowman
New member
I think we all get off on different topics within threads all the time. That's just the way conversation happens in life. I was a little taken aback by the message that started this whole thread though. Posting about a free download of a different recording product than CE was less than desirable.
dobro
Well-known member
Which was undesirable, the posting or Protools? 
W
windowman
New member
Concidering the version of PT they talked about, I'd have to say both. ;-)
jwgeetar
New member
your all right."****" happens!some of us are more organized than others.we're not all idiots, just musician/songwriter/
producer types.that might splain it all!
i got my answers. this thread is dead! thanks all
producer types.that might splain it all!
i got my answers. this thread is dead! thanks all