On 14/09/2004 18:21, Ben Kennedy wrote:

Sure, I will try to work on some more of these in the future. Of course, anybody else with GarageBand installed is welcome to start cobbling other kits as well (which I would be more than happy to include).

I was trying to get all the Percussion Kit mapped out on its own (bits of its samples seemed to appear in various other GB kits), but only have gotten so far with it ....

BTW, I did a quick test with the syncing accuracy of the now-functioning MMC control and it seems pretty solid. Having recorded an initial drum pass, when overdubbing guitar I realized that my second verse was the wrong length. So I went back to the dbsong, fixed the 2nd verse, and popped the new drum track over the old one and "underneath" the initial guitar efforts. And it seemed to sync up just fine -- at least, to my ears, there wasn't any noticeable offset between the guitars-recorded-over-first-drum-pass and the second drum pass (until the guitar part collapsed in the 2nd verse, anyway :)

So that all seems great :) Hurrah!

No my only difficulty is hitting play on my deck and getting my hands on the guitar fast enough to start at the right place :) I either need a) to build in more blank measures at the start of my DB songs or b) a foot pedal to start my deck :)

Cheers, Carl

Cheers, Carl

On 17/09/2004 14:13, Ben Kennedy wrote:

On 17 9 2004 at 7:13 am -0400, Carl Edlund Anderson wrote:

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No my only difficulty is hitting play on my deck and getting my hands on the guitar fast enough to start at the right place :) I either need a) to build in more blank measures at the start of my DB songs or b) a foot pedal to start my deck :)

Actually... maybe some built-in count-off, toggle-able in the prefs, would be useful eh...?

Well, that's a possibility, though I usually add some count-in measures with woodblock clicks or something at the beginning anyway.

BTW, I'm not staring at DB now, so I don't know whether the kit editor has changed recently, but can one easily duplicate the info for a given sound in the kit editor? I mean, like, if I have all the info entered in for one snare hit and want to have another lower velocity snare hit, all that I need to change for the low-vel hit in the editor is part of the name, icon, location of sample -- but a lot of the enterable text in various info fields would stay the same. If I could duplicate the info for the existing hit and then just tweak the changes, that would be cool (and a big time saver when mucking around with kits that have several different versions of the same basic instrument!). Or does this already work somehow and I've just not noticed/figured out?

Cheers, Carl

On 17/09/2004 12:13, Carl Edlund Anderson wrote:

BTW, I did a quick test with the syncing accuracy of the now-functioning MMC control and it seems pretty solid. [I] popped the new drum track over the old one and "underneath" the initial guitar efforts. And it seemed to sync up just fine -- at least, to my ears, there wasn't any noticeable offset between the guitars-recorded-over-first-drum-pass and the second drum pass

I was doing this again the other day, and this time did get a lag in the start of the drum part. But I just kept trying and eventually got a start from DB that sync'd up correctly. I am guessing that this has more to do with instabilities in the MIDI signal between my iBook and the deck than anything else, though.

On 17/09/2004 14:13, Ben Kennedy wrote:

Actually... maybe some built-in count-off, toggle-able in the prefs, would be useful eh...?

I've thought about this more, and I've found it pretty workable so far to just use some drum sound like a woodblock as a rhythmic count-off. If, in future versions of DB, it were possible to mute given sections of the kit on playback (like if one were outputing separate drum parts to separate channels/files, then one could simply use a sound for the count-offs that wasn't otherwise used in the composition and mute that sound when you wanted a version of the dbsong output without the count-off.

I suppose one could build-in a designated "count-off" click that would be available in all dbsongs, regardless of which dbkit was loaded, which one could then mute or not as needed ....

Cheers, Carl