Sequencing Drum Patterns

[bharris22]

Hi Everyone,

I am trying to dig in to my new Novation Circuit and would like to program some basic drum beats. I work primarily in the rock genre, and would like to know if anyone could recommend a collection of drum patterns specifically for sequencers? The more, the better - a collection of a bunch of patterns that I could just input into the sequencer would be ideal. I am used to using midi loops, Jamstix and WAV loops for drums in my DAWs, so programming on a sequencer is new to me (plus, I am not a drummer and have no real feel for this).

Thanks!

[telecharge]

I don't have a Circuit, but looking at the specs it seems you can use external sequencers, so you should be able to use your existing MIDI loops/patterns.

Here's a YouTube tutorial playlist you might find helpful.

[bharris22]

Thank you very much for your help. One of the reasons I bought the Circuit is to break away from the computer a little bit, so would very much like to input some drum patterns manually.

[carrieres]

i use https://groovemonkee.com/

[lfm]

15 years ago using portastudio for recording/mixing, all I did in computer was drums.

http://pcdrummer.com/

I really liked this as a sequencer, and do step programming, real time programming and generate drums as audio.
But midi is also available as target from what you did.

So to get patterns to have a skeleton or do some work, your choice.
As I recall I could do a good bit just running trial.

Real easy to work with, drag n drop patterns - make loops if you don't want to repeat same pattern.

Another idea, if you know drum notation - have a look at Yamaha drum engine patterns/beats. I downloaded such as pdf before.

[bharris22]

Thank you!