Re: Oberheim Drummer (was: Loopinh Ensembler)

[Pat Murphy <pmurphy@gibson.com>]

As Kim said, the Drummer has no sounds of its own. It is an interactive
midi drum pattern device. It has around 1000 patterns and can be set up to
play in different time signatures. It can be set up to respond to midi
velocity and can also be set up to listen for silence. With low velocity it
might play the pattern with side stick and closed hi hat and with high
velocity might switch to a regular snare drum and a ride cymbal. This will
vary with the pattern selected. With the silence feature, the Drummer will
listen for a thinning of the midi data stream on the selected channel. When
 it senses silence or fewer notes it will throw in fills. It has a variety
of fills so they are not the same each time. You can also set the drummer
up so that notes below a keyboard split will determine the bass drum hits
for the pattern.
You can use any combination of the velocity, note density, and keyboard
split features.It is actually a cool little device for those of us that are
not capable of sequencing believable drum parts. Namely me.
Hope that helps.

Pat Murphy
Oberheim



>>Now, if you could design something that could
>>track the "feel" of, say, the drummer, and have
>>that as the "master click", you might be getting
>>somewhere.  What you want is something that can
>>utilize "feel", perhaps something that listens
>>to the overall inputs from all of the
>>insturments and, say, samples it every half beat
>>to determine what the tempo is, not unlike a
>>real person does, then outputs that to the loop
>>devices, utilizing time stretching or some such.
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>Interestin' that the good ol' Reverend ;-) should mention this - I often
>have to deal with these sorts of problems - being a drummer/ 
>percussionist.
>I found the following on the Oberheim Drummer page - this sounds like one
>solution.
>HELLO OBERHEIM PEOPLE. I have a question: how does this *actually* work?
>I'm any old good drummer whose subject to the odd tempo fluctuation - I am
>practising to correct this though :-) . Can I load drum samples to the Obi
>Drummer? Thanks in advance!
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>Like any good drummer, the Oberheim Drummer listens and reacts to your
>playing. Dynamics, fills, and other features can all
>be set to follow and respond to your MIDI performance in one of the unique
>Drummer "Jam" modes. Files can be saved and
>loaded via MIDI. Four footswitch jacks allow for real time performance
>control of the Oberheim Drummer.
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