First, Steve Do wrote: > > Drums are a real weak spot with me. I have a good sense > > of rhythm and I always wanted to be a drummer instead > > of a keyboard player (but my mom and dad forced me to > > take piano lessons). I love Hydrogen but I always > > feel that if I were to try to add a drum part it would > > sound ultra-cheesy and unrealistic. Then, on Tue, May 17, 2005 at 12:42:47AM -0400, LinuxMedia wrote: > When I actually have everything set up the way I want it and get ready > to make music, I will probly eventually look into electric drum pads (or > whatever you call them). I'm assuming they are all midi. Would midiable > drum pads help to make it more musical for you (assuming one could use > the drum pads to trigger sounds via midi and a linux sequence/sampler)? --- --- MIDI drum pads kits are great and very versatile. I have a drummer friend who uses them all the time for recording and I've known drummers who also use them for live performance. However, they require a drummer's skill and technique with drum sticks. As a keyboard player I don't possess those skills, as much as I would like to have them. But your email gave me an idea. Rather than use Hydrogen (which I really like) or another percussion program to produce drums for any particular piece of music I'm working on, I could simply use one of the percussion kits in one of my MIDI tone generators, which maps a whole array of percussion from bass drums to snares to toms to hi-hats to everything else, to the various keys of a MIDI keyboard. Then I can simply use the keyboard skills I already have to "play" the drums in real time and accompany my already recorded tracks of piano, organ, etc. While this idea may seem obvious to some, I had not really seriously considered it before. But it might work and I think I'm going to try it. Thanks for the nudge in that direction. ;-) Best wishes, Steve D New Mexico US -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Politics is the stomping ground where personal ambition and greed parade around as altruistic service. -Eli Khamarov ----------------------------------------------------------------
