Adding Drums

[paulbergel]

I'm new to this forum and I was just wondering how to add drums to a piece in Tracktion? What I have been doing is scoring everything in Sibelius, exporting it as a midi file into Tracktion, and then changing the sounds all around with a vst. This has worked wonderfully for all my orchestral pieces, but now I am faced with the challenge of adding a kit to the mix and I'm completely clueless!

If anyone has a link, a tutorial, or even a simple answer -- please, by all means, contact me!

Thank you immensely,
Paul Bergel
http://www.pauldavidbergel.com

[timmyo]

I'm pretty inexperienced myself but to get you going:

Look at plugs like DR-008, RMIV, Jamstix.

Alternatively you can downlaod a free soundfont called ns_kit from www.naturalstudio.co.uk that you load in to a soundfont player (sfz is a free one) and trigger with midi (so you could bang out a basic rhythm on your keyboard and tweak the midi notes in the midi editor)

Cleverer people will be along soon

[djsubject]

if you where using a vsti for your drums in "sibelius" then all should work the same as with the other vsti's

if this is what you are doing then maby try shifting your midi up or down a octave

i have read in this forum that sometimes imported midi can move to different octaves depending on what you set as your defalt middle c note

any body have more infomation on this??

Subject

[chico.co.uk]

AFAIK, Sibelius is notation software,[1] to let you draw the score in treble and bass clefs etc. So I'm guessing it doesn't exactly support vsts, it's more for getting a nice view of your music, than for actually turning it into audio. But the general principle described above should do the job, grab a copy of sfz from http://www.rgcaudio.com/sfz.htm

chico

[1] I could be wrong ... also, i think i've been valley-ed

[paulbergel]

Yeah Chico -- you are correct. Most of my music is orchestral, so the use of a notational program is an absolute necessity.

So I'm going to try the sound font idea out -- thank you everyone for the links!

Take care,
Paul
www.pauldavidbergel.com