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Hi folks, Had biab for couple of days now, slowly making sense. I'v been browsing the real drum files and found some great grooves that will work perfectly with a few tunes I have. I'd now like to start a project with a drum file and build it from upwards from there, can I drag the drum file into somewhere or open up a project with just that drum file and build the track up from that, if so how please, thanks in advance
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Ok man... when you're browsing around the real drums files you like, make a note of what the name of that groove is that you like. For example: "BossaBrushesFull^2-Brushes" would be the file name.
Now, when you build your song... go to the windows menu, real drums picker. To find "BossaBrushesFull^2-Brushes" I would click on "BossaBrushesFull^", then over to the right, I'd click on option 2, brushes.
That should work for whatever groove you happen to find while you're browsing around. Find it in the drum picker, select it, then click OK and you should be set.
LUCK!
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many styles will conflict with a particular drum pattern. I always do things the hard way it seems, but i'd try to find a real style that uses that drum pattern, enter the chords as normal, with any tags, breaks, repeats, etc. Then see what you have. You can always edit them. Once you determine if it is 8 or 16 beat, pop or swing etc, you can find other midi styles if the real style just doesn't do it for you.
Also in the styles list, you get a brief discription of the instrumentation of the styles. If its a Bluegrass song, you probably wouldn't want a style which featured a B3 organ.
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Thanks benny and toucher. but not quite happening.
Firstly I have my drum file I like and make a note of it
Then am I correct in thinking I search every single song ( phew ) untill I find that drum pattern in it, but how ? as when I open song 'menu' there is no reference to the drum style used in that song, or am I missing some information somewhere
Iv just checked the style menu, where in the dialogoue box does it tell me which drum pattern is being used ?
This is my real drum track I would like to use which is awesome, perfect for say Ketty Lesters 'Love Letters'
JazzBrushes_045_Style.m4a:
I just want that as my drum track, type the chords in, pick my 'real acoustic bass' and 'real piano' and Bingo ! one tight as a duck track straight out of the pan ! ready to record my lap steel on to,
"Simples' as they say, but how ?
Benny I tried your trick, chose a song ( just any song to get going )went to windows/real drums picker, I just get a blank window saying 'no real drums' so when Im in the song menu which part of that menu tells me if that song contains real drums
Again thanks in advance
I'll go to 'help' next time if Im driving you bonkers, you must have better things to do !
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Look for the Song Demo button in the RealDrums picker.
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Ok, so If you're going to the real drums picker and it says no real drums... that means your drums folder is NOT located in the default location, inside the band in a box folder.
You'll need to go back to the window menu, ReadRums settings, click the box that says "use a custom drum folder location" then click choose and tell it where your actual drum folder is.
Again, I'm working on the assumption that your drum folder is NOT in your regular Applications/BIAB folder.
Then... once you've done that... like you said.. you should just be able to make a note of your favored drum riff... type in your chords, then go into the drum picker and assign that drum riff to your tune. Then, go to realtracks picker to select your real tracks.
Also, you don't have to open every single song man! Just open whatever tune you want, (making sure that "pause until play in your prefs menu is diabled), then go to the windows menu, drum picker, then double click on a drum style. It will give you a preview of what it will sound like with that particular drum track. Again, you need to make sure you see all your real drums listed in that window. Also, just to be sure, in the upper left of the drums picker, right under filter, click on SHOW ALL.
Best of luck buddy!
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Hi guys, all sorted, many thanks, the drums folder was in the band in a box file but was a sub folder of drums. Also what I had not realised was that to start a new project all you had to do was go to file/new and start typing away. I thought you had to start with an existing song a tweak it to suit.
I'll put up a post to find the appropriate tutorial to helpguide me further, regards, Mr D
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