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Jul 26, 2004 05:01 am You need a basic drum sequencer that will plug in to a host application. I will continue assuming Home Studio does allow softsynths to be used. You then open softsynths in your track view. In Sonar this is done via an "insert > DXi" menu clicking. It then opens a single MIDI track and a single audio track. You go into the MIDI track and assign your beats there.
I personally use Project5 for this, but Cakewlak just released a program called Kinetic www.homerecordingconnecti...tory&id=394 that works as a plugin with Sonar, but I doubt with your app. Other apps Kinetic would work as a standalone drum sequencer, make your beats in it, then export them as a wav file, then import that wav file into your project. FruityLoops is another common app that can work as an integrated softsynth in some apps, or as a standalone.
