Dad3353

Make your own..?

Good evening, Mudsprout, and ... Plenty to read and amuse you here, and lots to learn and share.

Maybe that's where we differ.? I (nor my partners in crime...) are not so much moved by the clapping and cheering (in fact it's more often an embarrassment...). I started playing because I enjoy making music with other like-minded musicians; to give ourselves a raison d'être, we rehearse, and folk ask us to come and play. Apparently they, too, enjoy watching and listening to what we do, and do, indeed, clap and cheer. They clap and cheer, and ask us back, with the repertoire we've rehearsed. We wouldn't rehearse a set with songs we don't like, so that's what we play when we play out. We get asked back more often than my health permits now, and, because we don't ask for (nor want...) payment, we can choose which invitations to accept. We don't want to be out every week-end, either, so half-a-dozen dates a year was about our maximum, anyway. Different strokes, and all that. It's all good; we don't all do the same things for the same reasons for the same audiences. I've other anecdotes about getting the party up and dancing, but that's for another time.

I trust adequate ventilation has been factored in..? Condensation, damp; the air needs to be renewed in some way. Just sayin'; s'looking good.

Our ideal audience..!

True, probably, if it's a job, but if playing for one's own pleasure, one may be more discerning, I'd say. Fewer gigs, maybe, but more satisfying.

I remember every single one of the ... ... What was the question again..?

OK, I'm out. I'm quite used to 'accents' and such, and I also know how to count bars in pieces with multiple time signatures.

No, I don't agree. Yes, one may play the drums in 4/4 throughout (I'm a drummer, and that's what I do...), but the bass staff has 2/4 and 5/4 bars in there. You can't count 4/4 all through the bass part and be on the '1' all of the time. It's possible to play 3/4 throughout on the drums; that doesn't make the bass part 3/4.

I could (but probably won't, as it's tiring, and I'm old...) count along with this (as I have done, many times...), to show how, in the first pink bit one counts to 'two', and in the second pink bit, a count of five. I don't know how others do it, but when I'm counting beats, I count '1-2-3-4-' for 4/4 bars, then '1-2-' for 2/4 bars, and '1-2-3-4-5-' for 5/4 bars. That's what I count for this song, in those spots. Counting '1-2-3-4-' from end to end will throw off the '1' beat (for the bass track, which this is; the drum track is different...). I maintain that there are bars of 2/4 and 5/4 in there.

Good evening, Andy, and ... Plenty to read and amuse you here, and lots to learn and share.

Good..! I'll delete my helpful hint, then.

I click on 'Share' in Soundcloud, then select the link text in the box that follows. I paste this into the BC post and... Voilà..!

It's so that it doesn't look stupid.

That, in essence, is the solution adopted, but using the Behringer UFO-202 instead of the X-Air (£18 instead of £400...). OK, maybe a few less options, but the music gets into the PC, which is the objective..!

Once you've seen it done, it works, but to the inexperienced, it's not so evident.

Gentle leverage with a thin blade. Here's a picture ...

More likely not 'the wrong way', but a narrow strap with shoulder pad, like this ...

I concur, on all counts, with the proviso that Superior Drummer 3 is far more expensive. Worth it, for many, but far more expensive just the same.

The pink sections are the non-4/4 bars (2/4 and 5/4...). There's a metronome click to help illustrate, with a slightly stronger '1'.

It sounds OK when Guitar Pro plays it.

Are there any other features of EZ-drummer type plug-ins that I should take into consideration? No, not really, for what you're doing. EZ-Drummer can be played from an e-kit, 'live', or recorded from such a kit; I don't know if that's the case with Impact or not. Am I making a mistake to dismiss MIDI loops and mic placement ? No, except for the ease of using a MIDI loop as a basis for 'tweaking' to one's needs. I often do this, as what I'd do from scratch would be close to what's in the MIDI file. All I need to do, using a MIDI file, is change to what I really want (dynamics, subtleties, accents, 'more' or 'less', depending ... MIDI Drum files can be sourced from anywhere, though, not just EZ-Drummer. Mic placing is of limited use for the type of stuff you or I are doing, I suspect. I do use the Mixer a lot, though, to change or eliminate 'bleed', or add/subtract 'ambience' mics. Nuances, though. Any other thoughts/advice on the topic? If what you're doing ain't broke, don't fix it. There are dozens of 'rabbit holes'; choose wisely. Is it easy to obtain packs of drum his with velocity layers for my Impact? Here, at PreSonus..? About £30 a pop, I think. Here's one... Tom Brechtlein Drums Vol.1 - Stereo ... Hope this helps.

Hmm... If you try to count 1.2.3.4. all the way through, there'll be moments when the '1' is no longer the '1'.