[Rwp] Newbie to Reaper on the Mac with a drum track question

[Scott Chesworth]

Sure. In my experience, there's still an extra bunch of velocity
tweaking with the third party MIDI groove libraries I've tried to get
things sounding as natural as possible, because not all drum plugs
respond the same, but it's another way of working. I guess this is
like anything else, the more you practice the workflows the less
cumbersome they seem once you're familiar enough to stop thinking
techie and return to thinking about songs.

> On 24 May 2015, at 02:40, theoreomonster--- via RWP <rwp at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
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> There are a fw companies out there who release drum loops in standard midi  format so you could build the drum track using midi loops with all the advantages of midi then use something like the ReaDrum Template for ReaSamplematic to map the different parts of the midi loops to trigger single hits to convert to audio. Plenty of single hits with varying velocities out there too in standard wav files. Just another work around to consider.
>> On May 23, 2015, at 2:56 PM, Scott Chesworth via RWP <rwp at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
>>
>> To add a little to Oreo's answer - if you want the flexibility of MIDI
>> triggering a drum plugin and don't want to learn to play, there isn't
>> an easier option right now. Two potential  long term solutions are to
>> lobby the hell out of Toontrack, XLN and their competitors to either
>> A) release their groove libraries in a non-proprietary format or B)
>> work on increasing the accessibility of their in-built tools. Tbh,
>> neither option is all that likely, and I'd argue that you could
>> probably get semi-decent at programming parts in the same amount of
>> time, and acquire a new skill to boot.
>>
>> Sighted people have this easier, but I've met enough of them who still
>> choose to play stuff in to believe that it's a viable way to go.
>>
>> Scott
>>
>>> On 23 May 2015, at 14:48, theoreomonster--- via RWP <rwp at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
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>>> its pretty much the same way, You need a drum software instrument and  you play it out on the keyboard. Reaper may have some tools to make editing/etc a little easier  depending on how you work but at the end of the day its pretty much similar DAW to DAW. I personally use audio drum loops since i am not a midi person, don’t have a keyboard, and don’t have time to learn how to play drums. With Audio loops I can audition loops till hear something i like, and use standard audio editing operations, (select, copy, split, cut, paste) to edit it into what i want if its not exact. It worked for me with great results so just never ended up learning how to program drums.
>>>
>>>> On May 23, 2015, at 3:28 AM, Krister Ekstrom via RWP <rwp at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>> If i want to do drum tracks in Reaper for Mac, are there any tools to help doing this or is it the Pro tools way, hammering away on the keyboard and hope it get’s somewhat right? How do people who use Reaper for the Mac do with that?
>>>> /Krister
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