Hi Guys,
I want to get drums with variable tembo, so it would consist of midi stuff, but what I need to do that? I can use one of midi drum kits but how can I send apriopriate midi notes to get drums in differet genres? Till now I have been using audio file player with drums in wave but they do not let to change tempo. Can I get something like beat buddy from singularis without spending hours programing it?
seems to me like you want a sequencer or some midi controller with sequencing capabilities. there may be some time sync issues to resolve… or if you want preset rhythms, maybe there are midi files out there for those rhythms, you can load those to your MOD device, use the midi file player plugin to play those and switch between them, and you can then allocate midi channels however you want, etc., use tap tempo…
I’m working on this as a custom plugin… i’ll let you know when finished.
The basic strategy is to make some one or two bar drum beats of a style you like (surprisingly hard to find online). so, i’m using garageband to export single-bar midi loops from the session drummers (kyle, darcy, etc) in 3 flavors (verse, chorus, fill). Then you convert these “loops” to json instead of midi so you can easily store them static. At this point, the tedious & hard work is done.
Then i feed the json into fluidsynth (or black pearl or whatever) and my desired tempo. I’m actually going one step further and matching the tempo to the bpm and bar count of the first loop i record on my looper (also custom). Mine is set to automaticallly insert fills at the end of a progression.
There was work on a drum generator that isn’t in the store from last year at Drum generator in case you want to check that out.
If you use multiple dm-seq instances, you might be able to implement something similar.
Guys, my solution for this is bluetooth audio dingl from Ali. I connect it to one of Dwarfs inputs and send backing tracks/drums from my phone. In fact it is quite handy and with all that apps and YT on the phone you can get what you want.