Drumcore 2.5 new offer

[garchev]

Hey Rich,

Nice to hear from you! To be honest, believe it or not, I didn't have the time to play with it since the group buy.

Back to the topic, I didn't quite understand how you use it with RW.

If you have time, can you post some simple step-by-step example for the benefit of us all?

Best,

Mihail

[Rotund]

I bought it in the group buy and and have used it a lot. It is very flexible with midi and loops and separated drumkits. I'm glad I got in on the group buy it was a good deal. it is a little cumbersome with RW but it is very workable.

[Charvelguy]

Its essentially a loop previewer, creator and editor... the things rappers and all other musicians love. Essentially, you can create your own drum loops and samples to use in place or in addtion too the instant drummer. If I get a video camera one of these days soon and some time.. jah, what I say and do to what I want are sometimes are not always n-sync.

[28if]

Guys, thanks for the replies, As I missed the great deal some of you folks got, I just want to make sure it is, well, I dont want to use the word easy, maybe efficient to use with RW.

Rotund, can you go into a little depth on the 'cumbersome' comment? I hate to spend the money if this is going to be more headache than its worth. I just love the sound of the Drums!

I like RW because of the quick set up / record. I am concerned that if recording gets complicated that some of the fun will be lost.

[geocare]

You can also use DrumCore to export the loops as files in two ways: REX files or wave files. With Rex, you can use the REX player in RW to play back the files for a given Riff. I export the files as wave files, load them into a DAW (found a free one online), edit to fit a riff in terms of length and style, and then use Amit's intelliRiffer to bring the new wave files back into RW as a layer. Just like anything else, its a little confusing at first, but once you get the hang of it, this affords much more variety and control on your drum parts. It's tedious work at times but, for me, the result is more satisfying. So, I give up on some of the easy fun to make a more developed work.

[Rotund]

Guys, thanks for the replies, As I missed the great deal some of you folks got, I just want to make sure it is, well, I dont want to use the word easy, maybe efficient to use with RW.

Rotund, can you go into a little depth on the 'cumbersome' comment? I hate to spend the money if this is going to be more headache than its worth. I just love the sound of the Drums!

I like RW because of the quick set up / record. I am concerned that if recording gets complicated that some of the fun will be lost.

Like Geo is saying. Since RW Rewire does not have a way to direct the input and output to/from drumcore (i.e. midi) it is necessary to work with audio. So if you don't use ID you do what Geo is saying with the exported rex loops. Which works pretty good for each Riff, although I have had some issues with this tab losing those links. Or you can use a program like reason or maybe FLstudio (rewire slave) that you can use the Drumcore midi files imported and then do the juggling act in your audio interface mixer through rewire. You can layer different recordings to get the right timing in RW that way. Works good too but I have lost some sound quality which is (opinion) a great feature of Drumcore (sound quality). So that being said I am having most success as to the creative process work flow etc you mentioned of using RW for the basics like collab and looping and then using a more complicated DAW to mix everything together. If the song is worthy (opinion) of even trying to make it sound better LOL. Bottom line for me the more I read the manual, the more I work with it, the more I do this, the better it gets. The results are (opinion) great and I'm glad I spent the money. It is better than building drums in a redrum machine or in a midi sequencer which is time consuming and a huge headache. Drumcore is worth all of this if you are into it ( playing with all of the different features and softwares etc etc) othewise ID is great and you can buy a few of them at 10bucks each and have fun that way.

[28if]

Thanks again guys. Looks like DC is on my wish/xmas list this year.