Aug 23, 2004 02:42 am goodbye.
drum fill plugin help
Posted on Aug 22, 2004 06:27 pm
fortymile
Member Since: Jan 18, 2003
i just downloaded the demo of fill-in drummer:
www.cakewalk.com/Products/MusicLab/fid.asp
it's cheap, and if i can make it do what i need it to, i'll be getting it sometime down the line. too bad i cant even figure out how to make it work. does anyone here use it? (or know of any other good programs for drum fills?)
i have the MFX wrapper, but i cant get this fill thing to work as a send effect. this may be because my audiophile 2496 doesnt have general midi drums in it. (drum maps: what ARE they? and can i even use them with this soundcard?) so here's an easy question which shows just how far i'm out of the loop here these days...
my workaround was to export the midi drum fill data to a cubase midi track, so that the note data would just appear in the track itself, bypassing the plugin entirely. i figured i could then map some good drum sounds into my korg triton and this note data would trigger them.
but the triton isn't receiving midi data apparently. this has to have something to do with my midi settings--a topic that i never really learned. i got midi to work with fruity accidentally somehow, and i got the keyboard to the point where it can send incoming midi to the computer, but i totally forget how to make the keyboard play note data from the computer. i never use the cubase midi editors. so can someone tell me how to get that note data out of cubase and to the triton?
by the way is there some way i could use these fill patterns in fruity? that'd be the best overall solution.
i also have a retarded question still open in the thread 'please help'--im really looking for an answer to that question if anyone has a moment. it's a dumb question on the surface, but my knowledge still has huge gaps and this is one of 'em and i'm just looking for a yes or no on that one.
sorry abt all these bolded parts but my posts are longwinded and these questions are really important to me right now as i'm in the middle of something ive been working on for a month and am getting frustrated--just want to make the actual issues visible
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Aug 23, 2004 05:04 am I really don't know
I'll bet Noize will now
Hope he'll drop by today
Aug 23, 2004 01:07 pm just a quick thought - are the features you wanna use disabled in the demo version? had a read through and dont know the answer otherwise, but thought that might be it...
stick with it dude, youll crack it eventually. ive been trying to get my network working for about 2 months and i got that working to day...maybe todays your day too?
Aug 23, 2004 07:03 pm Aye..the master of the midi Universe is bound to know.
I think you needs to go into the Cubase menu for VST Connections and set up yer MIDI device there.
Canny mind for sure tho as I just save ma settings for ins/outs and recall em each time I start.
I design beats in Cakewalk Pro Audio 9 (I like the simplicity) and export to Cubase for my song. Then just route the MIDI track to ma wee Zoom machine...da bomb it is.
Coco.
Aug 25, 2004 02:17 pm the demo version is fully functional for 14 days, but i haven't been able to get it to make any sounds at all. the meter on the midi track seems to be doing something when i hit play, but no sound is coming out.
my workaround (exporting the midi fills to a cubase midi track where they appear as note hits) should work independently of the plugin. when i hit play, the meter for that midi track jumps and pumps in time with the data, but i get no sound. (im trying to send the midi output to my triton, and using the regular piano patch for now, just to verify that the thing is receiving. it apparently isn't, or else cubase isn't sending.)
the last time i got this kind of thing to work i just played around until it did. i have no idea what i might have undone in the interim. but if anyone else knows the particular areas/panels of cubase i need to check out, i'll do that and then read my triton manual and find the prob. the inspector confuses me. there's a port setting and a channel setting for midi? whats that mean?
here's some more so-far-noted confusions:
1. anyone know why for my midi input i'm given the choice 'delta ap midi' as well as 'delta ap midi (emulated)?' i find emulated works most often when i do midi, but i dont know why.
2. to send midi data from cubase to a device my output should be one of those two deltas. but it gives me an input choice too. since the only input i want to capture is keyboard audio, does it even matter at all what i set the midi input to?
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