Midi Drums

[Bomber]

Hi Dooders,

I would like to lay my own guitar tracks down on some midi drum sequences. I find laying the drum sequence down on the stave quite tedious, can anyone offer some tips on how to do this more efficiently?

cheers

Bomber

 

[acidrock]

Well first off what version of Cakewalk do you own?
Most versions include the session drummer or the ability to use loops.
You can also get midi sequences free on the internet.

If you really want to program your own patterns you can save them as a .sdx file and use them in the session drummer where it will be easier to manipulate and repeat them.

 

[BluesMeister]

You Can't Beat Drums...

Piano Roll View.

It lists the individual instrument names which makes it a lot easier than the staff view. Once you've got a decent groove happening you can copy & paste to your heart's content.

Snap to Eighth note or Eighth Triplet and you're away. You can change to 32nd Note for fills if necessary.

That's how I do it.

--
BluesMeister

 

[dachay2tnr]

I actually use a combo of these methods.

I use Session Drummer to get a basic groove down, and then I print the Session Drummer to a midi track (Apply Midi Effects). Then I use Piano Roll View to further edit the Session Drummer tracks.

Best of both worlds.

Once you're done, output the midi track to the Live Synth Pro DXi, and get yourself some good drum sound fonts. And awaaaaaaaaaay you go.

There's probably a million other ways as well, but using the stave would not be one of them.

 

[moskus]

I find laying the drum sequence down on the stave quite tedious, can anyone offer some tips on how to do this more efficiently?

Yes, practise playing them on your midi-keyboard (if you don't have one, get one ). Practise, practise and... [drumroll] practise!

Small errors can be corrected easy. It's a pain to correct every single hi-hat hit.

 

[JR#97]

session drummer is great. however, I don't like how the mapping assigns the snares to the GM electric snare value. When i write the MIDI file, it cause problems when I try and use soft synths or soft samplers for play back because it messes up the playback.

Anywho, session drummer is definitely the way to go for quick and easy. The pre-sets are "human" feeling and don't have that robotic feel. Another option is to scoure the net for midi drum loops. I've done quite a bit of that as well. Or you could loop .wav drum loops.