Looking for excellent and useful drum loops...

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of the natural/real drum variety...
Anyone point me to some?
Thanks.
 
tubedude, I don't know if this is what you're looking for, but ther's this software called Drag and Drop drummer, the website I believe is www.dddrummer.com They're really nice sounding, really easy to use, pretty much kick ass. I have a light (small) version of the software that came with my cakewalk guitartracks, and I love it.

Check out the site, and download some demos.


Hope this helps,

-E
 
Went to the sight, and it turns out that DDD is who is known as Smartloops now, which have a few included on the new Sonar disk, which is exactly what got me interested in the 1st place.
Thanks.
I think I am going to order the full version and the percussion disk, too. I have tons of questions to clear up before I order them though. See my other thread now.
Ever seen the Sonic Foundry loops, some good ones there. I like the Native American stuff and the weird purcussion ones a lot.
 
acidrock, I downloaded the drumloops in the sites you mentioned, but, how do I use them???

can I open those with drag and drop drummer??? if not, what else can I use??

thanks,

-E
 
I have "Drumtrax" which claim to be real drumming converted to midi with the slop, uh, I mean feel, left in. But I'm confirmed slacker in this area.

wayne
 
Escani, there are basically two types of loops in the sites mentioned. Wav files and MIDI files. A wav file is an audio file that can be Imported into your Audio tracks. A midi file can be Imported into a midi track.

Both are short clips, maybe a bar or two long and so you will need to copy and paste many times to get the clips to last as long as your song. Fortunately, Sonar makes that easy by asking you to state how many repetitions you want when you come to paste the copied clip down.

There is one big difference between the two types, if you use a midi file, you can look into the Piano Roll View (in Sonar) of the imported clip and alter its make-up; timing, decay, instruments etc. If you use soundfonts, you can also change the drum kit or any other instrument.
Another difference is that people might say that a wav file is more natural sounding than a midi file. This is a matter of personal opinion.
PRV is a tremendous composing tool to make your own loops with too.
 
Maybe I'm mixed up here... but the best way to take a short clip if its not already a continuous loop is to import to your track, double click it to open it up in the loop view (assuming you use Sonar here), let it acidize or whatever you want to call it, and then put it in your track and then slip edit it as far as you want it to go. You can just keep pulling it and it'll just keep getting longer. If its cut right, it will be perfect. If not, you can edit it a little and get it right. Chances are a good clip will loop just perfect.
If anyone hasnt tried this yet, you should. There is a tutorial in the manual that walks you though it too, and it is a super useful and excellent feature. You can even change tempo and pitch after it is acidized, which is what makes Acid files, and Sonars ability to use them, so cool.
It works so good it almost freaks me out.
 
Sorry tubedude, you are right, the Loop construction method you describe is a simpler way of achieving the same result. Its funny how old habits die hard!

Do not forget to "enable looping" first in Loop Construction and then slip edit (drag) to the repition/song length you desire in Track View.
 
Is the obove method for samples, or midi also?
(If this gets easy enough I might even try using it some more.)
 
Nope, works great with wav samples...
you import your audio, place it in loop construction, and you can then slip-edit it how ever you like. Its the midi that I DONT know about, but I know audio will work.
 
Strange, I tried it this afternoon and it didnt work with wav's. Just done it again and it works:) I usually use it for midi, not audio. You learn something new every day:)
 
Starting to love Sonar with the Delta 1010.
THere is a good learning curve, and things edit differently than ProTools, but I am starting to catch on better now that I can actually use it in real life, in real time. I just need to get where I can edit small things very fast and efficiently, since the drag and drop fucntions dont seem exactly like I like, which are perfect to me in ProTools.
You seem to have to cut the whole part, or slice it and then move it. I like the idea of highlighting just, say a transient, and dragging the higlighted area wherever you want. Lotsa cutting neccesary with Sonar as far as I cantell, but I'm really liking it in general. Stable as hell on my system, too. I got over 30 tracks running with over 10 reverbs and no crash or lockup, just to see.
I dig it.
 
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