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

From: <james@email-addr-hidden-dot-dat.net>
Date: Wed May 18 2005 - 12:37:44 EEST

On Tue, 17 May, 2005 at 06:33PM -0600, Steve D spake thus:
> > 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.

Damn you. The drums are really good.

I just hate it when people can be so good at something first time.
 
> 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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