PG Music Home Forums General Discussion Recording, Mixing, Performance and Production ADVANTAGES OF REALBAND OVER PG's COMPETITION.

Simon.
thanks for your hardware comment, and the fact rb will carry on as a product.
Marty.
i use vsti plug ins in both reaps and rb.
i would suggest you contact pg support , and detail the plug ins your trying to use in rb plus your computer configuration. i would be surprised if they couldnt help you.
best to you marty.
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SUBJECT : DRUM FILL GENNING.
this next trik/idea is for people new to rb.
one of the neat things i like about rb is DRUM FILL GENERATION. its so neat to do in rb.

all included FREE ! and cos there is so much trak flexibility rb has certain advantages over other methods with its large no of 48 traks.
i mean you could go bat crazy with drum traks and generating fills for same out your ying yangs.
and drum trak comping from different traks etc.

IN SUMMARY FLEXIBILITY IN CREATING DRUM TRAKS/FILLS.
in the past in big studios i would have had to hire a session drum player. and they were very very good.
but not a lot of us can afford that. neither can i (and many others ) afford to spend large on big drum sample libraries and vsti plug ins. i have other family responsibilities.

meanwhile pg is kind enough to provide us with a nice big real drums library.
i'll now summarise genning drum fills. the steps.
1. open up chord view and experiment with various combos of k.d.
(k = song key ) you could fill every bar with k.d eg k.d,k.d etc etc, the whole chord sheet....
or just here and there. k.d indicates to play only drums.
2. then experiment with different combos on the chord sheet of shots and pushes in combination with different part marker breaks etc etc. you have to generate of course the fills like you do a regular drum trak from the huge pg real drum library.
(read the manual for more detailed info.)
3. this is really important..IF YOU WANT OODLES OF FILLS INSTEAD OF THE OCCASIONAL FILL, PUT A PART MARKER AT BEGIN OF EVERY BAR eg green or blue. i was doing this this morning to gen a funky urban more modern drum trak
with fills. in fact further , you could build a whole library of drum fills. midi and/or audio if you wished.
4. you could gen lots of drum and fill traks on different traks and then comp the ones you like for a final great drum trak if you wish.
you could mix various perc and regular rd styles together. maybe mix latin with rock for example.
and IF THAT ISNT ENOUGH , remember those old drum machine hardware sounds from years back ?

tother day i used a free plug in of such from the computer music mag suite of plug ins called cm 505 drum
vsti plug in. clacks and chirps and kiks n old skool sounds etc etc...lol, and generated a trak of that.
then i experimented with "dune" a fab synth with oodles of sounds included free in the computer music mag collection of 80 plug ins.
(note pipeline i think the on line cm mag only costs 5 buks ? once a year i pay 20 buks for the paper mag. cheap considering what i get .)

what i mean to say is useing rb it opens up a huge vista of possibilities/flexibility. for drum comping includeing useing plug ins AND..
4. there are different views in rb for moving around all the genned fills etc. both audio and midi.

for example say you like a fill at bar 5 , but not bar 43. no problem. good old copy and paste.
space limits me. but i really dig the flexibility rb gives me in comping drum traks n fills.
(i would urge the new user to read the manual and go through all the different rb "views" and "windows".
they all are very usefull in moving bits of audio and midi around till you get what you like.).

as you can see, and as david noted correctly , rb is just great for song arrangeing and composition, and testing out lots of different arrangements. let me finish by saying , lets say, for example your really happy with a song arrange, but you want to experiment further. no problem , save as eg arrangeone.seq. while working on arrangetwo.seq.
and experiment away in arrangetwo.seq
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i'm done for now /hth/ymmv/till next time and happiness to all...vivre le rb.lol.
om
ps other day i slowed down a drum trak , and i was able to isolate a sample of a rd single hit i really liked.
pps. forgot to mention. in rb you could do a minute of a drum solo if you wanted like a live drummer might
at a live show if you arrange it right.