Programming Drums in PT...

[AudioPhile777]

how do you program drums in PT?

I have this highly inefficient way of doing it.... basically drawing in each hit... which sucks... and by the time I've got a couple measures, I've lost my inspiration...

I've got an M-Audio Axion 49 key midi keyboard with 8 drum pad things on it... not sure of how to set it up in PT... or even if I can...

 

[NickL]

i tried the drawing thing for a while and almost threw up

 

[Where She Wept]

I pencil in the hits individually for a measure or two, then copy and paste from there.

 

[Genius Gone Insane]

Honestly, don't do that to yourself. Go get Cubase or something else that's MIDI-friendly.

 

[Exocaster]

Honestly, don't do that to yourself. Go get Cubase or something else that's MIDI-friendly.

+1. I'm not enough of a masochist that programming in PT is worth my time. I have a version of Cubase LE kicking around that I use for programing. If I really want to get serious programming hardware synths, I'll boot up OS 9 on my old iBook and use the old Opcode software. I've kept it around for years solely for that purpose. Cubase has pretty well supplanted that for me these days, though. I just export the MIDI file and drop it into PT.

There's gotta be a decent free sequencer around for the PC guys. I'm on Macs exclusively, so I've gotta pay if I want anything useful.

 

[JonWormwood]

I use guitar pro for programming MIDI. So much easier IMO then using Cubase MIDI editor. I then use Cubase for velocities and such.

 

[RemoWilliams]

I use guitar pro for programming MIDI. So much easier IMO then using Cubase MIDI editor. I then use Cubase for velocities and such.

Same process I use.

 

[AudioPhile777]

Yeah, I figured out how to get my midi controller hooked up into it... playing the kick and snare parts are so much easier than drawing them in... then i go back over it and put the rest of it in... pretty nice...