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#281817 01/25/15 01:48 AM
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hi to all smile
if you are using real drums as your drum track can you tell the real drums to add a fill as to where you want it and to play the same fill each time you want it to.
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Hi TJ
your selected drum style, by default will play as sub-style A. Most have a sub-style B too.
Every place you want a Fill, highlight the Bar you want it before blue for A and green for B. If you go green (for B) remember that it will stay as B until you tell BB to go back to A by highlighting the next bar blue again.
AFAIK you will always get random fills from the RD styles 'library'.
What I have done in the past is,when it plays the certain fill I like at some point, is to Freeze the track, export it to RB , or your DAW, and do a cut and paste job on it, replacing any randoms you don't like with the one you do. Laborious, but it works.
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RealDrums will play a fill leading up to and through each part marker.

[A part marker is made by clicking on the measure number. The part marker will show blue for an A substyle, and green for a B substyle that is generally busier or more energetic playing. Part markers that change colors often play a 'stronger' fill.]

[It is also possible now in version 2015 to use a part marker without having a drum fill.]

In RealDrums, you are hearing an actual musician play, so it is not exactly repeatable on command. However, if you use the Simpler' option and continue to regenerate, you may find that the fills are often similar. If it isn't what you want, you will have to take the song into a DAW and cut and paste.

{EDIT: good answer by sixchannel; beat me to it}

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ok thanks for your help will use sonar to do the work.
is it possible to extend the ending to how many bars you would like it to be
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Yes.... part markers give you fills....

If you have a drum synth.... sometimes you can use it to create a fill that RD doesn't.

Also in a DAW..... copy and paste lets you create some cool things.


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Originally Posted By: ROCKIN-TJ

is it possible to extend the ending to how many bars you would like it to be
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Yes and no.
AFAIC "Endings" are not one of the best features of BB.
You get a 4 bar ending BUT there are many ways of "cheating the system" to get it to do different.
What are you wanting to do?
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Another manual option that's been discussed before is you can go to the folder of the realdrum itself and find some of the individual drum hits and do a manual drum fill if you're looking for an exact fill pattern. Find this in BB\Drums folder then the specific drum style folder of what you're using. When you open the .WMA or .WAV the main drum mix will be in the start of the file and individual hits at the end of the file.




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hi Ian
i have a song which plays a 5 bar intro and then repeats bar 6 to bar 22 for 4 x. and then ends on a 2 bar ending.
i would like to do is repeat bar 6 to 22 4x and then after that has done that play for 12 bars and then end.
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Don't overlook Real Band. Noob's think it is somehow a simple throwaway DAW. Not so. It really is a Biab DAW and when you think about it that way, it's very cool. Years ago people would ask if there were some way to use Biab as a plugin in a DAW. That can't happen so they created RB. Not exactly a plugin but it has lots of Biab functions built in.

Start reading the RB forum.

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