pro audio 9 drum options

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hey! i'm new to DAW recording. I have a good computer, audiophile 2496, preamp/mics, instruments, midi keyboard and pro audio 9. I'm doing all tracks by myself and am most concerned about drums. I want options- electronica and natural acoustic sounding percussion- can I do this with pro audio 9? Should I buy fruity loops or Acid and use with pro 9? or should I upgrade to sonar? thanks...
 
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In Cake 9, you can't have drum looping. However, you can create it using MIDI / sample, or even record your drums as audio tracks. If you look for sample triggered based looping drums, then you may try Fruity loops or Acid like programs. SONAR is great when you know you realy need it. Otherwise, it's more complex than CWPA 9 to do music producing.
 
monster said:
...electronica and natural acoustic sounding percussion- can I do this with pro audio 9? Should I buy fruity loops or Acid and use with pro 9? or should I upgrade to sonar? thanks...
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Of course you can do enerything in Cakewalk, but Sonar is MUCH MORE convenient and, due to its looping features, makes Acid redundant IMHO. Fruity is handy for creating your own loops and importing them into Cake/Sonar, but it's not a must-have since Sonar can do this too.
 
...thanks for the info and please excuse my ignorance...is either or both of these programs competant at building complicated (non-looping) percussion using some type of sound file?
 
I'm a CWPA9 user, too. I'm so excited with the way it works with fruityloops, I've never thought of upgrading to sonar.

Buy, fruityloops and enjoy the ride! It's a great toy to build all the percussion you ever need!
 
monster said:
...thanks for the info and please excuse my ignorance...is either or both of these programs competant at building complicated (non-looping) percussion using some type of sound file?
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Yes, very competant. BTW, since looping tends to be more efficient for some musical genre, it would be easier (put the patern, there you go...). But you can make non looping drums/percussion programed in both. You can use either MIDI or sample from .wav files imported and sequenced. I f you already have CWPA 9 or SONAR installed, then you may see the demo included with them. Giving a simple, plain and basic explaination on how we build the drums tracks this way. I didn't do other sound files than .wav. Neither know if there's any chance to import other than .wav.
 
thanks again for the info....is the session drummer useful in PA9? Does it pale next to the drum synth/sampler in 2.0 xl? If I use fruity loops with PA9 how do the two programs interact?- do I open FL from PA9 and build drum tracks or do everything from FL and then import files?
 
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