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musikjock · Post by **musikjock** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 4:14 am

This may come off as a stupid question..but i've only programmed drums myself, save the occasional dr. rex loop in reason. I know that you can purchase prepared drum loops from various vendors, but my question is: Can you set the BPM's with these prepared grooves or do you have just work with the drum loop you have? I am what you would consider a '1-man band' and almost everytime in my recording my programmed drumming is the weak link of the recording. Furthermore, the way I usually start the recording process of a song is by recording a couple bars on the acoustic guitar, find out what the exact tempo is, then I scratch the acoustic guitar and start over with just the drums. So obviously it'd be very convenient to be able to sent the tempos if I were to sometimes use prepared grooves.

djanthonyw · Post by **djanthonyw** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 4:17 am

you can change the bpm by time stretching and by slicing the audio in recycle or something similar

musikjock · Post by **musikjock** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 4:18 am

Ohh,okay..yeah that would make sense!

dusted william · Post by **dusted william** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 4:39 am

or you can stretch it to your tempo with almost any host.

EX2, Live, Cubase, Traktion, I'm pretty sure FL does this.

musikjock · Post by **musikjock** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 6:02 am

thanks guys, i probably should've not needed to ask this..but thanks lol

musikjock · Post by **musikjock** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 7:12 pm

Okay, so after figeting around in cubase for awhile, I realize I still don't quite understand how to use these midi files. For example, I downloaded a free 'rock drum' midi loop to practice on attempted to load it up in cubase. I imported the midi file and output'd it through my favorite synth, hypersonic. I then chose a rock drum kit that I thought would fit the midi track profile. I started by dragging the midi notes to the correct key (EG hi-hats to the respective hi-hats on the hypersonic, kick to kick, and so on) and after a long while of trying to work this out, I guess I kind've got a loop going but was definately nothing like the audio sample they had posted on the website. Am I doing this the wrong way? Or is this correct, but like everything else it takes time to master?

Thanks

mw · Post by mw » Mon Feb 12, 2007 9:09 pm

chances are the midi files are laid out to a general midi standard, if so you shouldn't need to change anything. just make sure you send all the midi drum tracks to the same midi channell/instrument. ie channel #10 for drums. the demo probably sounds different because they are using a different kit and/or fx. try starting out w/ general midi files to get the hang of mappings.

a general drum loop question