Some more "Guitar Rubbish"

[robin]

Nice work Robin, as a matter of interest I was wondering what you are using for the drums.

I working on our originals both as backing tracks & recordings and am looking for drums to use in Reaper particularly a plugin that can be triggered by a bass track.

Hey Dave,

I use EZ Drummer. I had a ripped copy, but it is such a great Plug-in and my conscience got the better of me so I ended up buying a copy. Before that I was using MT Power Drums which was OK in a mix and also Sennheiser's Drum Mica. Both of them freebies.

Drum Mica is a very nice all acoustic sounding kit with the choice of a several different Sennheiser mics. It has 13,000 samples and about 1,500 drum patters. But both EZdrummer and Drum Mica are fairly large Plugins and my old computer was struggling to handle both so I have opted to stay with EZD. For the challenged like me, EZD was the best choice for song writing.

You got me beat with triggering drums with the bass, way past my pay scale I'm afraid.

Cheers mate
rob

[Dedman]

Interesting and not unlike how I write stories, particularly the not knowing where it's going bit and the never ending edits LOL

[stan]

that was a really interesting description of your process, thanks for the insight Rob

[dave.king1]

Thanks for the reply Robin, I have the MT drums & both drum mica packages and the PC has the grunt to handle them but I haven't worked out how to trigger them yet.

There is a scripting too for Reaper that allows you to trigger a midi from an audio file and then add one drum / cymbal at a time using a midi drum plugin, I have been playing with this and it's pretty intuitive but a long process.

The reason I am particularly interested in being able to do this is because one of our originals is in a straight 4 at 148bpm but because it has a rolling shanty feel the accents move from bar to bar so a bit like 12/8 but it's not.

As a consequence programming the midi drums beat by beat is a painful process that takes forever.

I was advised of the script in the Reaper forum where I asked " is it possible to trigger midi drums from an audio file " you will find I have a post with a similar title in the Recording In Progress sub forum where I describe how to use the script.

User name on both of these forums is suthol my usual forum name.

[wazkelly]

Loved the tone of the P90's on song 3 and also liked the traditional Tele on song 1. Top effort all 6 and easy to listen to.

[robin]

Interesting and not unlike how I write stories, particularly the not knowing where it's going bit and the never ending edits LOL

Yeah Dedman, I guess that's why writing and music are "art" and not science. There is no right or wrong way, just the way that works for you.

[robin]

@Stan,
No probs mate, hope it made sense.

@Dave,
Still has me scratching my head Dave, I will have to check out your Thread on the Reaper forums. Like most software programs, I am barely capable of scratching the surface.

@Wazza
Thanks mate.

I'll let you in on a little secret. Before I started making guitars I was a Gibson man through and through, and the one thing I knew for sure was that I would never want to build a Tele and I had never even heard of a P90. Now 3 years later, Tele's are my favourite guitar and I just fell instantly in love with P90's the first time I started playing them. Geez, I must be getting old. lol.

[dave.king1]

Gday Robin,

Wander downstairs to the Home Recording forum here for a bit more, it really is a work in progress though

[Muzza]

...keep the Black Dog at bay...

That black dog's a bitch!