Drums making program?

[Misko]

Can anyone recommend me a decent program (sampler/looper/whatever) for drums? I want to record a live guitar (Acid? Sound Forge?) on a track of drums, but the program should be able to let me compose somewhat complex drum-tracks... Many of the tools available seem to be oriented towards techno beats (i.e. insert couple of beats then loop them to death...), I need metal here

 

[in_absentia]

Guitar Pro...? Dunno just a suggestion

 

[Misko]

The tab program? Nah, the drums are just a convinience there, not serious enough...

 

[Arjen W.]

You'll need a few things to do that, a DAW, like Cubase or Pro Tools, a sequencer program like Kontakt or Battery and a sample package like Drumkit From Hell. You load the samples into your sequencer which you start from your DAW. Then you can trigger the audio samples with a MIDI track, which you can compose in either the DAW itself or an external MIDI program, Guitar Pro can be used for that purpose actually.

 

[Tubbs]

I use Reason with DFH, and it sounds pretty good iyam. The only problem I find with it is the long amount of time it takes to fully understand and use Reason.

 

[Misko]

Thank you!

 

[Arjen W.]

And if you haven't found it yet, go to the Andy Sneap forum for all you music production needs.

 

[Misko]

That's too much for my brain, man... I'm just a simple guitar player here (guitar - cable - amp = banging head 'till vomiting)

 

[Arjen W.]

Hehe, that's alright. If you're interested in making quality recordings at home someday it's really worth it to dive into that shit, though. If you just want to record some ideas then you don't really need it indeed.

 

[hellforge]

BeatCraft is a decent software, methinks.

 

[annt]

Using a tracker like Renoise or MadTracker is, to me, the most comfortable option. You can use samples, like DFH or the ns_kit7 ( http://www.naturalstudio.co.uk/index.html )

 

[Misko]

Hey I completely forgot about the trackers haha, I remember "Fast Tracker", it was uber-popular ages ago!:Smokin:
The Cubase + sequencer seems to be the best option, given that I have Nuendo 2 at work (I was told that Cubase is a watered down version of Nuendo?) and am pretty much adept with working a program like it as I'm a video-editor for a living (I edit in Avid).
But I got hold of Fruity Loops actually, and while on first sight it looks complicated, the 'pencil' tool allows me to draw beats inaccurately enough to seem realistic...
Argh, the possibilities...

 

[affinityband]

cubase is a bastard to pick up and use. you need someone to show you. or at least some kinda tutuorial.

 

[Kenneth R.]

Cubase with the sequencer + DFHS is amazing. But there's a learning curve.

 

[Arjen W.]

cubase is a bastard to pick up and use. you need someone to show you. or at least some kinda tutuorial.

That's true. This DVD set exists, from Askvideo I believe. It comes in three parts, from easy to hard. It's pretty cool.

 

[Scourge of Malice]

im trying to get ezdummer/dfh to work in logic, but im having no luck. maybe i should stop using pirated programs and spend some money