This easy-to-follow video clip by Kenny Gioia shows how to use drum samples in Reaper and drive them by MIDI notes to create rhythm.



As I see it, this has two REALLY EXCELLENT uses from BIAB's perspective.


ONE
BIAB's MIDI-only styles have MIDI drum patterns already created and mapped to MIDI notes. BIAB uses General MIDI percussion mapping. This mapping is defined in the below pdf whose content was obtained from here.

General MIDI Keyboard Map for Percussion (pdf)

Using this Reaper tutorial, it is then only necessary to...

1) Open BIAB and generate MIDI drums for a song.

2) Load that MIDI Drum track into Reaper.

3) Assign audio drum sounds/samples that can be triggered by the BIAB-generated MIDI drums.

**There are many audio clips of drum and percussion sounds across many genres that are freely available on the internet.

Quote:
NOTE: By default, BIAB will automatically replace MIDI drums with Realdrums. To disable this...

(a) a global setting is found in Realdrum preferences

(b) in BIAB 2018, a song-by-song override of Realdrums can be obtained by right-clicking and the drum track and selecting "Force to MIDI drums".


TWO
At the end of each audio file that BIAB uses to generate its Realdrums Drum track, the individual sounds of each percussion used in that track's creation is found. These drum audio files are in \bb\Drums.

Should the need arise to create a drum rhythm to complement a BIAB-generated Realdrum drum track, these sampled drum sounds could be used to compile a rhythm that is a 100% accurate sound match with the Realdrum track created by BIAB.


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Noel

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