Re: [linux-audio-user] RE: More Homemade Muzak

From: Steve D <groups@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Wed May 18 2005 - 03:33:43 EEST

> First, on Tue, May 17, 2005 at 12:42:47AM -0400, LinuxMedia wrote:
> > When I actually have everything set up the way I want it and get ready
> > to make music, I will probly eventually look into electric drum pads (or
> > whatever you call them). I'm assuming they are all midi. Would midiable
> > drum pads help to make it more musical for you (assuming one could use
> > the drum pads to trigger sounds via midi and a linux sequence/sampler)?
> --- ---

Then Steve D wrote:
> [...] But your email gave me an idea. Rather than use Hydrogen (which
> I really like) or another percussion program to produce drums for any
> particular piece of music I'm working on, I could simply use one of
> the percussion kits in one of my MIDI tone generators, which maps a
> whole array of percussion from bass drums to snares to toms to hi-hats
> to everything else, to the various keys of a MIDI keyboard. Then I can
> simply use the keyboard skills I already have to "play" the drums in
> real time and accompany my already recorded tracks of piano, organ,
> etc.

Well, I tried it. I set one of my MIDI tone generators to "rhythm" mode
(which simply means it changes to a percussion kit with various
percussion instruments mapped to individual keys of the MIDI keyboard),
then used the keyboard to "play" the drums and record it live
into Audacity, adding a drum track to my little piece Herky-Jerk.

The good news is that I could play with lots of expression and variation
in tempo, just like a real drummer. The bad news is that it was d*mn
hard! I had to be incredibly relaxed to achieve anything even barely
approximating a stable rhythm or tempo, and I have a new found
appreciation for drummers and their skills.

If anyone cares to hear the rather rough results of this tedious (but
enjoyable) experiment, the ogg file is here:

http://www.xscd.com/pub/music/herky-jerk-drums.ogg

the original, without the drum track, is here:

http://www.xscd.com/pub/music/herky-jerk.ogg

Best wishes,
Steve D, New Mexico US

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