Re: Question about electronic drums and Mac looping

[Warren Sirota <wsirota@wsdesigns.com>]

If you want to get beyond static drum tracks, my recommendation would be RMX. There are certainly things about it that don't work the way I wish they would, but it does come with a huge sample library and, most importantly to me, it provides for randomization of a number of parameters.

Aside from that, I have had good success using Live to play drum patterns also - the midi output of the patterns can be put through velocity randomizers, etc., and you can also easily set up progressions from one pattern to another. I usually put kick/snare patterns in one track and hihat (or parts that function like a hihat part) into another track and let them vary independently, for quite a lot of variety.

I might point out that the way I use these is to have the loop be the master and the drum parts slave to the tempo implied by the loop, rather than by starting the drum track first (you can hear some of these tracks on my home page, warrensirota.com). However, this is pretty complicated to manage, and is in no way necessary to using these products to create drum tracks.

Hope this helps,

Warren

On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 4:17 PM, andrea trabucco <andrea.trabucco@hotmail.com> wrote:

Hi guys!

Abandoned the choice to live-looping several percussion instruments, I've come to the decision to use some prerecorded stuff via a Mac computer and also do some live-looping with and e-drum pad.

Questions:

which the most intuitive and good software for Mac to do this

I was thinking of a Roland SPD 30, but maybe using the Mac there's some other way (less expensive) such us buying only a controller and take the sound from the computer

by the way I plan to use in conjuction with this also the Rc50, but since, as you can understand, I've no clue on how to do all that (being new to Mac and computer music usage) there's no more need...

Thank to all that want me to suggest something to help me get the point: I want to able to start prerecorded tracks in a multitrack fashion and to loop live on the with e-drums (with many different sounds as in the SPD 30) and also as always play and record guitar besides that

any advice also on a good audio interface based on the software suggested, having decided for the Macbook pro and planning to record myself the track, some percussion and vocals via mic and some guitar

Thanks a lot,

Andrea

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