working with battery.....

[sparkyness]

whoa...whats quantizing?

this great thing they invented...oh about 20 years ago to keep shoddy little finger drums like mine in time Which reminds me....my old Alesis HR-16B drum machine is crudded up in a cupboard somewhere ...but anyway I digress.

Quantize....a timing-correction facility for Midi. You set the timing correction you want (eg: 16th or 32nd notes) and the quantizing function will correct whatever you're playing to the nearest beat based on your settings. The end result is locked in time, but rather inhuman sounding so paired up with "humanizing" it will lock things in time, without sounding too rigid and robotic. Google is your friend

 

[ApolloSpeed]

sweet...so I just need a midi keyboard of some sort that does quantizing?

cool cool.

 

[Sweetnothing]

sweet...so I just need a midi keyboard of some sort that does quantizing?

cool cool.

Quantizing is done on the DAW, you don't need a keyboard or controller that does it. If you want to go fingers, check the M-audio Trigger Finger, the Korg PadKontrol or the Akai Mpd16, those are just "finger" controllers, like old pads in drum machines.
You can write the notes on the DAW with the mouse, as you did with fruity loops, I assume you had the grid on FL set to 16th, so on the piano roll/drum editor say, on cubase, you draw them the same way. It's the way I do it, it's time consuming, and sometimes it's a horrid experience, but it does the trick if you don't want to improvise and do straight timings.

 

[sparkyness]

Slight more expensive, but I can also recommend the M-Audio Axiom midi controllers. I just picked up the Axiom 49 and it's a keyboard controller plus has 8 finger (drum) pads and other midi-assignable knobs/sliders.

 

[gumplunger]

so in PT or Cubase..... is it setup like Fruityloops to make your sequence? Clicking all those boxes and shit??:Smug:

No idea, I don't use FruityLoops. You program drums in PT and Cubase just as you would in just about any other good DAW with a piano roll though.

 

[JBroll]

You can just be lazy like me and program the drums in Power Tab or Guitar Pro, and then drag-and-drop the MIDI into your DAW (I'm just too lazy to read that part of the manual, I don't even know how to get sound from the Audiophile I just spent eighty bucks on). That's what I do on covers - find someone with a good drum track on their tab, and... rrrrrrrrip it off. Hope they don't mind, I'd hate to have to start trying to tell all those bloody toms apart.

Jeff