It's not (currently) possible to separate individual kit components from RealDrums (Snare, Kick etc) However, if there were drum styles that only played individual instruments, you could place them on separate tracks.
On the downside, I believe that such individual RealDrums styles are not readily available. Others may know more.
MIDI could deliver this, but I recognize that you specifically mentioned RealDrums.
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While there are no RealDrum tracks specifically designed to playback single drum instruments there are several workarounds you can use to achieve single drum instrument playback.
One way is to use an audio loop. Percussion, versus drum loops are more likely to have single drum instrument audio.
Another is to use a Soundfont player or sampler, such as the free Sforzando or VSTSynthfont utility programs, to playback a custom midi track you create. You can easily create a custom midi track by taking any midi drum track you like and use the midi event editor included in Band-in-a-Box to remove the notes representing any drum instrument you don't want. Most of the RealDrum tracks include single hits that can be copied into the players for playback.
I have just joined the forum and just started to use Band in a box 2019.
Is it possible to just use a real track (Real Drums) bass drum, or snare drum?
Depends on how you want to use them. If you just want 'samples' of the realdrums to use as you want, each RD source track commonly has individual hits of each drum at the end of the source file. You can take these 'samples' and use them in various ways (cut/paste to a track in a pattern, or assign to a sample player/VSTi and use MIDI to trigger the sounds/samples).
So if you just need the actual drum sounds you can often get access to them, though in a roundabout way. Images below show how to load a RD source file (WMA in the example) and how to find the individual samples at the end of the file. The source file should be located in your BB/Drums/*style* folder that is used for the generation feature (found in Prefs). In the below images, the snare is located a little later in the file, with a few variations, much like the HiHat.
Like I said, it's takes effort but they are there. Once found you can do lots of magic. I see Jim alluded to the individual samples available; I just gave more clues on how to use them.
Last edited by rharv; 02/13/1902:43 PM.
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