From Oblique Hostility Sent Sun, Oct 26th 1997, 06:24
From Oblique Hostility Sent Sun, Oct 26th 1997, 06:24
On Sat, 25 Oct 1997, GamePrg. wrote: > > to me, making complex drum programming is very difficult, at least on > Performer. I don't want to fiddle around with tick numbers or notation. > maybe this is because i've not been using in much at school, but so far all > the stuff I have done have had very simple drum programming, and when I > tried to add in a snarerush, I just gave up coz it was to stressful. maybe > it's just me, i'd like to know how others do it really. :) > Performer kind of makes it difficult to do dense beats, as it doesn't have the weapon of choice for drum programming -- loop programming. Loop 2 or 4 bars, record in hits, erase 'em, add more. You can spend hours on the perfect 4 bar loop, but it's fun. Opcode's Vision works for me -- I do EVERYTHING that way. For a snare rush, read up on step recording in the on line help. Turn on step record, set the duration to 1/64 notes, and hammer that snare 64 times. Then figure out if Performer will let you draw in velocity curves for that buildup, and you're there. All the drill and bass guys use a variety of tricks to get those drilling drum rolls. The MPC3000 (Mike Paradinas' current ax) has a repeat button you can hold down to get a drum roll. Who knows what Richard James uses. But consider that snare rushes are getting pretty played out.