So this might come across as a bit blasphemous here, but I'm not a big fan of using the preset styles for putting together a track to fit my tastes. For the same reason, I never used the songpicker/artist feature. I prefer to mix and match RTs and RDs to taste.
Your actually in luck, because over the past couple of years PGM has added a lot of instruments that in the past couple of years in styles you can use for Zydeco, especially when combined with the dizzying amount of New Orleans-influenced tracks released over the last decade. You got fiddles, accordions, washboards, foot-stomps (if you want them) and at least 3 dozen harmonica tracks that would be compatible. Same with the drums.
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... I prefer to mix and match RTs and RDs to taste.
Yeah, and for one i like to incorporate Andy Leftwich's fiddle shuffles, nice for Cajun; 595 and 430. Alas there are no 3/4 versions ... Also i made and adapted a few MIDI only ones a few years ago, before the Great Flood of RTs. F
When I filtered styles in Stylepicker, using "zyde" as the filter, there are 6 x styles from past years and another 4 x styles this year that come in XTRA PAK 6 (see the upper image below).
I then filtered for Cajun styles using "caj" and the lower image is what I obtained.
Hope this helps, Noel
Last edited by Noel96; 12/26/1811:36 AM. Reason: corrected some spelling - thanks fiddler
.... I then filtered for Cajon styles using "caj" and the lower image is what I obtained.
Lol, i sometimes search for cajun on the internet, and all you get is cajon stuff. Wen played well a cajon is a great instrument though. BTW if you have EZdrummer or Superior Drummer, this is quite a good add-on pack: Latin percussion EZX
.... I then filtered for Cajon styles using "caj" and the lower image is what I obtained.
Lol, i sometimes search for cajun on the internet, and all you get is cajon stuff. Wen played well a cajon is a great instrument though. BTW if you have EZdrummer or Superior Drummer, this is quite a good add-on pack: Latin percussion EZX
Thanks fiddler. I've now corrected my spelling in the previous post. The Latin percussion EZX looks very interesting. Thanks for posting the link.
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