Doggiebox April 2004

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21 discussions

wish list
by Phillip Lea 21 Apr '04

21 Apr '04

>>7) An icon editor in the kit editor. >With what kind of facilities? I don't see much point in >trying to >duplicate a paint program inside Doggiebox. What kind of >things >would be >better achieved within the kit editor that could not be >done as a >copy-n- >paste out of Photoshop or somesuch? An icon editor might be overkill, but including a handful of (easily accessed) attractive icons would make DB seem more finished and professional. I think this would improve the perceived value of the program. Phillip -- _____________________________________________________________ Web-based SMS services available at http://www.operamail.com. >From your mailbox to local or overseas cell phones. Powered by Outblaze

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track export
by Tor Lillegraven 21 Apr '04

21 Apr '04

this is what would work wonders for me: * putting in an additonal option in the "export sections..." menu option that would allow you to select ANY, SOME or ALL of the 5 (count them, five) individual kit-pieces for export. Hmmmm... did that make sense? Ok - here is an example: lets say I have made 5 bars of music -- the chorus of a song. It would be great to be able to go into "export sections...", and select, lets say, TWO of the kit-pieces (hihat and snare, or bassdrum and cymbals, or any other combination) and export only 5 bars of those two pieces. Similarily, you could have a complete song over 90 bars, and export ONLY the complete snare track from that song. The logical layout of Doggiebox is such that this could be as easy as just selecting one or several of the five "lines" of kit-pieces for export. For example -- you could just choose to export the "top line" (usually the cymbals), or the "bottom line", (usually the bass drum.) Doing it this way would provide a simple means of organizing your export. Another option would obviously be to just have the option of exporting "all the snare rimshots in this song".type of deal, but I think that be a bit more cumbersome. What if I have a song where every other snare hit is a rimshot? Tor P.S: Here is a track I have made recently using Doggiebox: http://www.mementor.net/lyd/eye_to_eye.mp3 The next step for me would separating each of the kit-pieces, giving the Bassdrum a little extra wooompf, the snare a little distortion, the hihat a little flanger, cymbals lots of reverb and so forth. For this I need the seperate export options.... otherwise its just too much of a hassle here is another one: http://www.mementor.net/lyd/lost_love.mp3 the drums are a little high on this one -- a common mistake amongst noob-drummers like myself, I think :-) ***************************************************************** Denne fotnoten bekrefter at denne e-postmeldingen ble skannet av MailSweeper og funnet fri for virus. ***************************************************************** This footnote confirms that this email message has been swept by MailSweeper for the presence of computer viruses. *****************************************************************

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DB recording posted
by Carl Edlund Anderson 20 Apr '04

20 Apr '04

I've had a couple of "drums only" Doggiebox song tracks sitting on my web site for a while, waiting for me to add guitars and stuff. Well having not quite managed to get my marginally more complex piece ready before my lady wife returned from a research trip abroad and wanted to reclaim usage of the office/studio/bedroom/computer again ;) I hastily slapped guitars and bass on the mindnumbingly simple piece I was working on instead, just so I could claim to myself to have done something ... anything :) So an MP3 of this track, "Afterburner", with drums by Doggiebox is on my web site: <http://www.carlaz.com/music/current.html>. The .dbsong is there too. The track as it stands is just a sludgey riff-fest (plug-in and go), completely unmixed or anything (I made the MP3 by sending the stereo monitor mix back to my old G3, which has a line-in, and recording it in Peak :) I did record a version with hastily written, hastily recorded vocals, but it was so awful decided to revisit vocals at some point in the indeterminate future :) But it's still the furtherest I've gotten with any musical project (other than the dodgy cover band with the dudes from work, which doesn't count :) for a hell of a long time, so I'm determined to be proud of its progress :) Here's a little more about the DB aspects: The track starts with some woodblock tapping that isn't part of the song _per_se_ but is there so that I can (try to) keep time with the guitar before the proper drums come in; I would mix the woodblocks out eventually. The same woodblock tapping returns later in the piece where there's another _sans_drums_ bit. This is my standard operating procedure to line-up the different instruments. I could have probably livened up the drums with some small tempo changes here and there--speeding up towards the end of the instrumental bit, for example--but hey, I was working fast. Ideally, I should go back and liven up the ride cymbal part, which is kinda ching-ching-ching-ching, with at least some different velocity hits--but swapping out the drum track and lineing up a new one with the existing recording is a pain in the ass :) I do like some of the fast snare fills, though. Some of them work quite well, I thought. Though if DB ever got a feature to tweak particular elements of the kit ahead or behind the beat, it would probably have been handy to set the rhythm keeping element of the snare (or ride) a bit behind the beat, to give it a bit more "groove". If we ever get that and MIDI master/slaving as DB features, I'll definitely go back at recut the drums :) Oh, the .dbsong file is "old style". I haven't converted it to the new pattern-pallete approach yet! Cheers, Carl -- Carl Edlund Anderson http://www.carlaz.com/

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108 drum samples
by Sion Morris 14 Apr '04

14 Apr '04

Hi Karl Whoops - looks like the page is no longer there. I got the link from the following post: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=775642#post775642 in the meantime you can download the ones (39mb) I have from: http://82.42.122.13/~sion/Files/mp3/Cedric_samples.sit From what I remember this chap Cedric and his mate recorded the drum samples in order to sequence them together for a song they were working on for some kind of competition. Guess they didn't win! Cheers Sion

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108 drum samples
by Sion Morris 13 Apr '04

13 Apr '04

Don't know if anyone has come across this page before, but it sure looks like it has ideal doggiebox drum kit potential: http://www.cedrik.com/ebm/ cheers Sion

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Something I did with the Hemberger kit
by Mike Carlyle 11 Apr '04

11 Apr '04

I really like the sound of this kit. I usually use my nskit, but this Hemberger snare sound is really big. http://www.soundclick.com/bands/7/mikecarlylesinstrumentaldemosmusic.htm There's only one song on the link above. I have another area with more complete songs. They don't use Hemberger, though.

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1.1.1 (bug fix and localization)
by Ben Kennedy 05 Apr '04

05 Apr '04

Hey all, Doggiebox 1.1.1 is now available for download at <http:// www.doggiebox.com/download.php>. Here's what's new: • Updated the Italian localization, thanks to Vella Bruno. • Fixed some bugs which caused it to be impossible to change tempo or time signature under some circumstances. • Added support for AVR sound file format. -ben -- Ben Kennedy, chief magician zygoat creative technical services 613-228-3392 | 1-866-466-4628 http://www.zygoat.ca

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by Ian Bridges 04 Apr '04

04 Apr '04

George wrote > anyone have some basic advice on how to put fills together? any links > would be helpful. I found the following links to be helpful - I didn't know much about building good drum tracks, but got heaps of help from these: http://drumbum.com/ http://colomar.com/Shavano/midi.html http://216.103.111.115/perl/drums/index.cgi Hope it helps Ian B

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ns_kit6/7
by Carl Edlund Anderson 02 Apr '04

02 Apr '04

I noticed that the new version of ns_kit, version 7, is now available for download. And I grabbed it :) but was wondering if any of you still have the WAV samples from the previous ns_kit6 lying around? I used to have them, but I think I lost them in a disk crash some weeks back! Cheers, Carl -- Carl Edlund Anderson http://www.carlaz.com/

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9 new kits- some assembly required
by The Reverend 02 Apr '04

02 Apr '04

I would post these myself, but I'm concerned about the copyright issues involved. Now... For those of you who have acquired GarageBand and the Jam Pack, I present you with this little tidbit: HD > Library > Application Support > GarageBand > Instrument Library > Sampler > Sampler Files. Here you will find ALL THE AIFF SAMPLES USED FOR GARAGEBAND'S VIRTUAL INSTRUMENTS. Use them wisely. As previously stated, I don't think a kit built from them is legally distributable, but you could always post the icon art and a "recipe". ********************************************** ^_^ -- The Reverend Rat -- (oo) Rock and roll like it still matters. \ / >V< http://www.revrat.com **********************************************

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