On Tue, 17 May, 2005 at 07:08AM -0600, Steve D spake thus: > 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, Watch this guy: http://dis-dot-dat.net/keyboard-drums.mpg At first, it just seems very cheesy, but then... This is rock and roll! Oh, and I probably shouldn't be hosting this file, since it's the property of a company that probably cares about things like copyright, so it probably won't stay there for more than a week or so. > Steve D > New Mexico US -- "I'd crawl over an acre of 'Visual This++' and 'Integrated Development That' to get to gcc, Emacs, and gdb. Thank you." (By Vance Petree, Virginia Power)
