[Ryan]

Question #1

Click your transport bar where it says "tempo" so that it now says Tempo - Track. Hit Ctrl+T. Thats your tempo track. Move the blue line up or down to control tempo over the amount of time signified by the vertical lines.

Question #2

In the drum editor, beneath all of your channels, click the pulldown menu that says GM Map. Click DrumMap Setup. Save your map ;D

[Leon]

[Chris]

I'll fart with tempo in a bit, lol. I'm makin' some totally ownage completely horrid beats.

More Qs!

- How do I rename the drum patterns? Right now they're all called "MIDI 01".

- How do you do quick double-kicks? Like the beats want to align themselves to the grid, so I get like

kick kick | snare | kick kick kick | snare

I want toss in shit like:

kick kick | snare | kick kick kickkick | snare

Know what I mean? lol

[h4x5k8]

Wow man, Nice Job!

If I only had this about 6 months ago, I had to figure it all out on my own (and with DFHS which is even more of a bitch). Ill help answer some of the questions, and hopefully learn some new stuff as well.

Btw- This should be the official "Questions about working with cubase drum programming" thread as well.

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@Chris
'How do I rename the drum patterns? Right now they're all called "MIDI 01".'
Refer to the first attachment.

The bottom three red circles are all areas where you can double click and input the name (2 for the midi file name, and one for the midi track name). The top two are where you can access your pool where you can re-name it, I could be wrong but I think midi files are included in the pool (not at home computer).


'How do you do quick double-kicks? Like the beats want to align themselves to the grid, so I get like'

Refer to second attachment. Activate the Quantize button and change what note/beat length you want to quantize to, the grid will then change accordingly. Now you can draw your beats with the pencil or record it into the midi track with a controller (keyboard, electric drums, etc.).

Edit- BTW Chris you can turn off the 'Auto-Snap' feature by clicking the button to the left of the Q or 'Quantize" button (one I circled in second pic), this will make it so it doesn't align to the grid and you can place the beats where ever you want. This is also good to turn off when you want to make your drums sound more human, by moving each beat a little (zooming in will help), since no drummer plays in PERFECT time.

Edit2 - I'm PEtarded, I circled the midi track thinking that would rename the drum pattern, ignore that circle.

[The Dark Wolf]

Ryan = the man.

Much love, brudda.

[Chris]

h4: If I click the top left "MIDI 01", it seems to rename the track itself. Clicking it on the actual editing area brings up the drum editor when I click the name.

* Chris feels like such a freakin' newb.

I still can't figure out how to do kicks that roll into the snare, like dum dum-da-BAP, dum dum-da-BAP, know what I mean?

This is fun.

[Ryan]

Try this for renaming:

Click each the box you wanna rename and name it up on the left hand side there:



Turn off the Snap feature to place by hand. I ALWAYS place hits by hand because if not, the beats stack perfectly on top of eachother and they sound like a drum machine. When you turn snap off and place them by hand they sound way more human. And make sure the Humanize setting is ON on the EZDrummer plugin. ;D

[irg7620]

this is exactly the tutorial i have been waiting for to read so i have a heads up when i get this stuff. now, can you use drumkit from hell as well?

[Chris]

Originally Posted by irg7620

this is exactly the tutorial i have been waiting for to read so i have a heads up when i get this stuff. now, can you use drumkit from hell as well?

He is using DFH, DFH is the VST that you send to whatever sequencer you're using (in this case, Cubase).

As a side note, the tutorials from Toontrack (if you're using EZD) are excellent:

http://www.toontrack.com/tutorials.asp

[irg7620]

oh, i thought he said he was using EZ drummer. which i know is a cheaper version of DFH made by the same people. that's cool anyways. i'll have to try to put some money together and try to get these programs.