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Video Demo and Tutorial of DrumStudio from thesoundtestroom
We seem to be over run with new drum apps lately, so I'll start with this one. It does give a lot of control over your drum patterns and you can make it sound and feel very realistic...its another one of those apps that can go deep, so its hard to get a real feel of what this can do in a short demo, but at least you can get an idea of what's capable.
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One big feature this has over others is the ability to change the Time Signature mid sequence whenever you'd like and you might be able to do the same with Tempo/BPM
Thats a really important thing..something I missed, and something that others have asked for before
Nice video@Doug. Drum Studio's great. I really like their other app Robo Drummer. It has a great song feature.
@mgmg4871 - RoboDrummer is really cool I like it a lot, I need to try it in conjunction with DrumStudio
Yes, you can transfer directly into Drum Studio.
This is my favourite app for getting a drum part down. It's a nice mix of a fast grid editor and a virtual kit, very fluid to work with. Even better with the recent Audiobus and MIDI sync update.
Don't overlook the ability to import drum tabs from within the app, even if you are not a drummer. It's worth trying just for the education / inspiration value (and fun to jam along with if you play an instrument).
The only thing missing really is the ability to import your own samples, but for now with MIDI export you can easily pipe it though another drum app or sampler using your DAW of choice.
Nice demo!
I understand that you can export the actual sequence MIDI data to another app. What apps support importing MIDI data that way, and not just accepting live MIDI input? Is it just "Open In", or is it all through AudioCopy?
I don't think you can copy midi data through ACP. Here's a link of apps that support "Open In" for midi...
http://www.iosmusician.com/2012/04/list-of-apps-that-support-open-in-for.html
Thanks for the link. Hmm... that list is kind of limited.
So can I use this to control another app's drum samples live using MIDI? How to I correspond, say, kick drum from DrumStudio to the kick pad in another app (BM2 or Cubasis or SampleTank)? Do I have to manually map MIDI channels for each one?
I don't have Drumstudio, so I can't really address that, however drums are typically assigned to midi channel 10, and the different drum sounds are assigned to a specific note, usually in the lower octaves. Here's a link that addresses that...
http://computermusicresource.com/GM.Percussion.KeyMap.html
Ahhh, excellent. Can I keep you on speed dial?
So if I understand correctly, there's a good chance that if I sync a drum app like DrumStudio to another app with drum sounds on channel 10 (or "all" if no other MIDI is in use), it will probably automagically play the correct drum sound -- assuming both apps had the presets mapped to the proper note per the MIDI key map?
That should be the case...and assuming both are using ch 10 for drums, which is most common.
Also, note that the link for apps supporting midi open in hasn't been updated in some time.
Great, thanks for the info!
No worries. Let us know if you manage to get it working....or not.
@jesse_ohio
No no, ignore that outdated list!
You can open the MIDI file directly in Auria or Cubasis, and you can get it into most other things via AudioShare or Dropbox (BM2, etc.)
EDIT: Mind you, what the heck Auria would do with the MIDI file I'm not sure, but the option is there
OK, sweet. Having both options is good. If I can get live MIDI working fine I'm okay with that. Thanks!
Just had a go with transfering a drum patterns midi file from drumstudio into cubasis..ok so I found that first emailing it to myself then open in cubasis worked fine and there was no need to remap...however one problem I did encounter was the fact that even though I tried to export the whole song i.e. 8 bars, cubasis would only open one bar...so I then went to one of the free midi loop sites and tried imorting a 16 bar midi loop into Cubasis and that worked fine..I think it may be an issue, we shall see..
Keep trying. I believe I circumvented the 1 bar MIDI file problem, but I can't remember what I did to do so... Sorry.
Ahh not just me then..come on Paul..think man think
I've just exported 4 bars of MIDI from Drum Studio to Cubasis.
Export File via Pasteboard.
Open Audioshare and select Clipboard Icon.
Should be an entry called GENERAL PASTEBOARD at the bottom of the list. Select it.
Back in the audio file list, there should now be a highlighted entry called Pasted audio.mid.
Select the Open In icon and choose Cubasis.
Pasted audio.mid should end up in Cubasis's media store.
Double tap it to open it in a new MIDI track.
It will look like there's only one bar of MIDI data, but this is misleading.
Drag the right bottom corner of the new track segment to the right to reveal the rest of the imported MIDI data.
Thanks Paul..will give that a go as soon as possible...
You can do this without AudioShare via the draft email trick (or regular email) as well, just drag out the clip afterwards as PaulB suggested.
So tried the pasteboard way first, but got no GENERAL PASTBOARD icon in the clipboard section of AudioShare...so tried emailing it to myself, then instead of opening in Cubasis I opened it in AS..that worked....
@thesoundtestroom Try opening direct from email as you did before, but extend the end of the clip once you add it in Cubase. This is how I do it and it works just fine (no AudioShare needed this way).
Might be the most authentic sounding drumkit on iOS. I'll buy it the second I need it. Thanks Doug!
Yes, email works, I just found Audioshare more convenient than turning off Airplane mode, opening up Mail, etc. Plus I need a wifi connection to email anything, whereas AS is always available.
@PaulB no you can use the old draft email trick, you don't need wifi at all for that.
Of course, I was forgetting.
What is the old draft email trick?