[Mario Michetti]

Thanks Henrik, I had thought of that but was a little intimidated at learning to create such tempo maps. I’ll give it a look and see how it goes. The other issue that needs to be resolved is to find some arpeggio patterns that can mimic what is called organ crawling because most of the keyboard parts I want to create are B3 organ parts.

Thanks for the suggestions,

Mario

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[Mario Michetti]

Thanks, that’s what I wanted to know. So here is a use case you may want to consider:

1. I am not a keyboard player
2. I have studied music theory and know my harmony
3. I do not like quantized music
4. I play drums, bass, guitar, timbales, congas and all the afro-cuban percussions
5. I like to create songs without a click track for a more organic feel
6. I like to create backing tracks by playing Superior Drummer (best drum vi in the world) along with the original song using my Roland electronic drum kit and recording my performance in Cubase.
7. I repeat the process for all guitar parts

Regards,

Marius

 

[Mario Michetti]

A 3Gz machine, optimized, (see Tuning an Audio PC produced by Mix Magazine) with a PCI or PCIe should give you about 2millisecs latency on the audio out side. Then the host software and the trigger module add their own latency as does transporting the Midi data from the drum brain to the host. You’ll always feel a lag, even with my TD-3 with the headphones plugged directly I always feel a lag. For recording, I just cue my ears to the noise coming from the pad itself knowing the the Midi will eventually get there. And beleive me, once it gets there it’s glorious. I love SD2. So:

For best results:

1. Get the fastest Drum Module you can afford.
2. Optimize the drum module’s Scan Time and Retrigger Cancel Window to your playing style (playing softer can help)
3. Get the fastest Midi connection you can get. (Standard Midi is very slow, USB 2 is faster but watch out for jitter).
4. Get the fastest audio card you can afford. (I believe PCMCIA is faster than USB2 but not sure)
5. Optimize your computer. I have a separate partition just for music.
6. Don’t expect it to feel like a real drum. Most percussionists will sense a 4-6millisec latency easily. Especially when playing cowbells, cascara, timbales.

Marius

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