Reaper and drum machines?

[schust]

anybody ever hook up a drum machine to Reaper to bang out a rhythm real-time and record it?

i'm trying to write some new material and just want to lay down some drums quick and easy, then go back at a later date and record w/ a real acoustic kit.

i'm new to midi - and recording in Reaper - so feel free to talk in complete newb language. i've been searching all afternoon over at the Reaper forum, google, etc - but just can't find anything that talks about this specifically.

here's what i got so far: boss dr-670 (midi-out) -> M-AUDIO MIDISPORT Uno -> USB (Reaper)

any help would be appreciated. thanks.

 

[schust]

figured out how to map individual midi-notes to their own tracks and then use slate samples - but now experiencing massive latency issues.

anybody got a good workaround in Reaper for this - or is it a fact of life with usb/midi stuff?

i've got Slate's KONTAKT player 2 as well from a recent LE purchase - wonder if that's a better option - although, i've been trying to avoid "programming" anything. i'd rather play it real-time, much easier for me...

 

[Jinko17]

look on the reaper fm for multichannel drum bus templates. this way you can edit each drum as if they were on separate tracks when theres really only 1 track.

 

[schust]

thanks. (btw, i think i might have responded to one of your posts over on Reaper forum earlier this week about impulses??)

i've got the drum machine mapping one drum to one track in Reaper - i was just having an issue with latency. however, that's been resolved too by simply downloading the new ASIO4ALL drivers an installing.