Complete drum track in 5 minutes

[stupeT]

Hi folks,

last night I had to create a drum track for an otherwise complete song. I found a slightly new way for me to do that in MDrummer and wanted to share it here:

1. choose base rythm and switch of all random
2. create one MIDI item for the whole song
3. open MIDI editor of sequencer for note creation and let song play
4. in "realtime" create intro/beat/breaks/outro while the song plays
5. listen again and refine which breaks/beats and exactly when by shifting the notes arround

The result ist a great drum track in just five minutes.

I once had GrooveAgent. Such a work took hours (with automation lanes). And finally never wanted to sound exactly like it should!

If only the track number a particular drum will send audio to the host would not change to these odd defaults if one changes the drumkit! Then MDrummer would be close to perfection.

[MeldaProduction]

Sure it will .
Btw. why didn't you just use the MIDI command method? Maybe the accurate placement. This has the disadvantage, that you are actually recording the "notes", not commands, right? So when you decide to change the rhythm, too late.

This is actually the big issue of all drum machines except MDrummer , when you can define the song structure using the MIDI commands (or song structure system, which is now very refined btw.), and than you can play with the groove .

[stupeT]

Sure it will .
Btw. why didn't you just use the MIDI command method? Maybe the accurate placement. This has the disadvantage, that you are actually recording the "notes", not commands, right? So when you decide to change the rhythm, too late.

Sure. This method gives a good visual feedback. Thats why it is very fast for me in that particular case.

MDrummer is really flexible. I choose the one or other method depending on what the state of a song is. From jamming to basic but groovy rhythm for recording other stuff to refinement and perfection later...

[MeldaProduction]

That was always the point - give people several methods to work with MDrummer .

Anyway next version will automatically preserve output channel mappings when loading/joining/generating drumsets and you will even be able to save the mappings.

Cheers!
PS. Very soon