by mosrob » Sat Jan 01, 2011 11:56 pm
Here's some inspiration for the organisation of your sounds and drumkits:
1. Use a standard-setup for drum/key assignment of drum- & percussion sounds.
There is a standard-setup that is used by Roland and Yamaha and can be found in related mauals of the said manufacturers.
2. Create Presets that include just one drum-/percussion-sound with related key-assignment, playback-parameter, modulation settings & output-assignment.
It is easy to copy a preset and make some minor changes to the playback-parameter.
Undesired side-effects may occur if the same MIDI-Controller is used on multiple presets for the realtime-control of some modulation parameter.
So make some thought about this also ...
Give the preset a reasonable name, maybe with an extension at the end of the name. Example:
- a sound is just played as long as a key is hold: HLD (e.g. "808 Kick HLD"),
- a sound is played completely after it is just triggered with a Note On MIDI Command: TRG (e.g. "HH5 Clsd TRG")
- there are multiple presets that use the same sample and have similar playback-settings but Filter or Modulation settings are different: make up your own mind ...
3. Create Banks with Presets of the same type like kickdrums, snare drums, tom setups, hihats, etc.
When looking for another sound, you can use SoundSprint to check if the selected sound fits to your set.
4. Use a Master-Preset that links the required presets together to a complete drumkit and select this Master-Preset in Multimode.
When a drum- or percussion sound should be replaced, you just have to change one link in the Master-Preset.
Such an organisation makes the setting up of a drumkit very quick and easy.
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mosrob on Mon Jan 03, 2011 10:46 am, edited 1 time in total.