Programming Drums in PT...

AudioPhile777

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