--- Hans <hansfong@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Ryan, > > I am looking for the same thing, although I already > gave up and vowed to > learn to play the drums myself. I've been studying the drum kit for a couple years. I love it. I guess by knowing > how to play drums you > can more easily program drum beats yourself. Learning to read percussion notation is a one afternoon study. Developing the skills to play what you read takes a life time. Programming what you read into a sequencer doesn't require any musical talent. And there's lots of notated percussion available free of charge. www.drummingweb.com has useful content. ron > FWIW, I recently found out that Horgand has a build > in drumbeat, > programmed for different styles. Unfortunately > Horgand is not well > documented and maintained as it is a one-man > operation. > > Let us know if you find anything interesting along > your search. > > Hans > > Ryan Heise wrote: > > >On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 12:45:08AM +0100, Carlo > Capocasa wrote: > > > > > >>You could check out specimen, a pretty nice MIDI > sampler... Just load > >>any WAV file. > >> > >> > > > >What I mean by "drum beat" is the rhythm sequence > itself. i.e. rather > >than sequence a drum beat myself, I would sometimes > like to just select > >an existing one from a library, and then play over > the top of it. > > > >Ryan > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
