JAMSITE - Home Recording forum

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Well this started out as a bkp jam/home recording forum but due to lack of BKP members interested in that aspect it is now just a home recording forum.

Im just posting this to get some people interested as there are already some great articles over there and i have some plans to add some more on the following topics.

Drum Programming
Humanising midi instruments

I am also planning on adding services for members in creating string/piano sections and also backing tracks.

I believe MDV (very active member) will also put more in if we can get more of a userbase over there.

I am also hoping to bring in the collaberation aspect that i originally had planned for this site.

As you can see its been slowly dying over this month unfortunately after it had a great start.

Hopefully some of you will be interested and take part!!

Tony

www.infocus.ho8.com/jamsite

[Roobubba]

I've not forgotten it!

Just been struggling immensely to find the will top program drums with that cr@ppy piano roll. I found it so much easier in acoustica beatcraft, but that sounds like cr@p :(

I don't have any interest in programming drums, but I want to do more composition with my guitar through the computer, and it's very useful - no, imperative - to have some sort of basic drums down to achieve that.

That and the fact that I have to restart reaper every 5 minutes because the sound goes all odd. Haven't had enough time to sort it out properly, let alone time to spend thinking about riffs :(

Roo

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Does acoustica beatcraft have a midi export function?

And this is the kind of thing that I could help with. If you record to a click and let me know the tempos etc and give me the rough track i can then program some drums against it for you and send you the drum files back!

[MDV]

Edit a link into the OP, goddamnit!

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can't believe i forgot the link.

[MDV]

I can believe it: You forgot it last time as well!

Anyways, yeah, jamsite, new forum for home recording. It doesnt have any sort of prerequisites or music or gear bias, and it should be a good place for beginner to intermediate experience home recording people to come and learn, bounce ideas around, have mixes critiqued (in the nicest way possible)...and stuff. If more people turn up I'll write more guides, on more interesting things than the bare essentials...whatever good that is to poeple, I dunno. 

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I can believe it: You forgot it last time as well!

That is very true :P

If it does all take off a bit better i will also actually get a domain name (and think up a better name) i just don't really want to pile anything into something that's not going to work.

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Also Roo, I took a look at beatcraft last night and it seems it is just loop based creation. What drum VST are you using?

As most have a built in loop library/editor that you can drag and drop midi from to create your drum track.

If your program doesn't like SSD you can always download ezplayer free which is a library tool or i can just upload a load of midi beats/rolls etc ordered by time sig & tempo that you can piece together.

let me know!

[MDV]

Roo, there are very simple things you can do to decrease the laboriousness of superior 2 (or any other drum sequencer) programing in reaper. Copy and paste is the least of which. If you know there is going to be repetition, all you have to do is program one part, make sure the section is the correct length and drag it out. Any canges made in the first will happen in all the other sections. To change one part, split it out and adjust. A basic beat for a whole track is easily programmed in less than an hour, much less if you know exactly what you want it to be.

[nfe]

I've not forgotten this either, I have a little nose now and again.

Unfortunately I'm not able to upload any of the mixes I'm doing just now, but being able to stick your mixes up and get some feedback and pointers is great.

[Roobubba]

Thanks for the comments guys. I need to tweak reaper somehow to make it run properly first though as it's really annoying having the sound go all strange  after a few minutes. It's a high end machine, so it can definitely cope with what I have going on in there!
The key problem for me at the minute is not having enough time to do anything on it. I'm going to try to factor some time in over the next few weekends, though.

Roo

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Thanks for the comments guys. I need to tweak reaper somehow to make it run properly first though as it's really annoying having the sound go all strange  after a few minutes. It's a high end machine, so it can definitely cope with what I have going on in there!
The key problem for me at the minute is not having enough time to do anything on it. I'm going to try to factor some time in over the next few weekends, though.

Roo

What sound problems are you having exactly?

[Roobubba]

I'll see if I can capture it on my zoom recorder some time and post on the jamsite forums, Tony.

[MDV]

90% of weird noises can be fixed by increasing buffer size.

Track dry, or use direct monitoring on the focusrite with the record monitor disarmed in reaper.

Most computers can handle that @128 bit buffer or less (on my audio rig, i7, 6Gb, texas instruments FW, I track at 48 bits with no problems). Later, when you start to add VSTs and plugs, weird noises will happen. Increase the buffer size; latency will increase, but you dont need it any more, since now youre mixing, not listening back to anything thats supposed to be real time.