On Tue, 17 May, 2005 at 06:33PM -0600, Steve D spake thus: > > First, 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)? > > Then Steve D wrote: > > [...] 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. > > > Well, I tried it. I set one of my MIDI tone generators to "rhythm" mode > (which simply means it changes to a percussion kit with various > percussion instruments mapped to individual keys of the MIDI keyboard), > then used the keyboard to "play" the drums and record it live > into Audacity, adding a drum track to my little piece Herky-Jerk. > > The good news is that I could play with lots of expression and variation > in tempo, just like a real drummer. The bad news is that it was d*mn > hard! I had to be incredibly relaxed to achieve anything even barely > approximating a stable rhythm or tempo, and I have a new found > appreciation for drummers and their skills. Damn you. The drums are really good. I just hate it when people can be so good at something first time. > If anyone cares to hear the rather rough results of this tedious (but > enjoyable) experiment, the ogg file is here: > > http://www.xscd.com/pub/music/herky-jerk-drums.ogg > > the original, without the drum track, is here: > > http://www.xscd.com/pub/music/herky-jerk.ogg > > Best wishes, > 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)
