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DrumPerfect - coming soon...
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I can't wait to get this one. How soon is soon?
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I'm looking forward to seeing a review of it in action. We can always use more cowbell!
It's not terribly interesting to watch, but it sounds great!
Marinus' demos are here:
http://soundcloud.com/drumperfect-1
I have a few demos from beta testing as well:
I see Midi clock but does this have any other midi capabilities or is it audio only?
At the moment DrumPerfect behaves as a slave to Midiclock, Midi Start/Stop/Continue and Midi Song Pointer commands.
Paul - great sounding examples, they sound a lot more human than most drum patterns.
The kits sound really good Paul.Is that the sound straight out of the app?
Question for @PaulB: the drums sound great and very human, how easy or complex was it for you to complete these drum tracks? I mean on a real drum set, you can hear the difference between a beginner and a virtuoso. Will it be easier for us talent-less non drummers to make it sound like we are syncopated people? Is it intuitive?
To add to @NoiseHorse, will it be easy to create and incorporate fills, rolls and other accents?
I don't sound this good on a real kit, I'm not a drummer, if that's what you're asking. I know enough music theory to be able to work out where in a pattern to put a drumstroke in order to get what I'd like to hear. The nice thing about DrumPerfect is that you can add strokes as you listen to the pattern playing and work towards what you hear in your head. If you can count, you'll be fine.
Yes, fills, rolls and accents are pretty easy and can be set up to play based on probability.
All of Marinus' examples use samples provided with the app, my 3rd example uses the Jazz-Funk kit supplied with the app. My 1st and 2nd examples uses Derek Buddemeyer's Pop Studio kit samples that I loaded up and made into a kit for myself.
As with all things, what you get out depends on the effort you put in. You can get good results pretty quickly, but if you take the time to tweak all the details, you can get fantastic results.
The best thing to do after installation will be to build up a library of basic drum patterns that can be loaded, tailored to requirements and saved anew. Fairly soon there'll be less building from scratch and more selecting and adapting, which is what a human drummer does really.
Great stuff Mr. Paul! I'm getting it (when it's ready).
Those of us lacking counting skills are screwed then?
Sounds great!
If I can load in my own midi drum files and work with those it will be just fine.
That's great @PaulB, is there an option to export as separate tracks? Sure hope so. Also, anyone know of good places to find pre-made midi drum files/patterns (rock n' roll, punk rock type stuff)???
Check out groovemonkey they have some terrific sounding packages at great prices.
I found, loading the demo patterns and song, and watching, while listening will teach you the concepts of drumstrokes very easily. The color coded visuals really help. I am far from a being a drummer, but was able to grasp it by the visuals, along with hearing what's happening.
The patterns are not MIDI, so you can't load in MIDI files. It's a sophisticated sample player, essentially.
If you want to export individual instruments, you can solo instruments in the kit edit page, but I have no idea if that affects the song export feature, plus it might change the behaviour of the two handed play limiting. You'll have to ask Marinus. Currently there is no 'separated instrument export' option per se.
mmm I wonder why it would be considered sophisticated in that it can't even play midis? Sounds like a difficult beast to tame. We want Doug vids.
It's not to say that midi won't be available in future versions but it won't be in v1.0, which is a question you'd have to direct @Marinus.
It is extremely sophisticated in what it does and makes the most realistic drum lines on iOS. Just because it can't play midi doesn't mean it's not sophisticated. It is very complex, yet easy to understand in terms of layout. Most of the realism is taken care behind the scenes by code.
@PaulB, thanks for the clarifications. Really hope we can export as separate tracks at some point, makes it much easier to do more serious projects with proper mixing and such. Still looking forward to this app a lot.
I have checked with Marinus and he has given me permission to make a pre release demo video, which I should have ready in a couple of days. It does have an insane amount of control over every single hit, but also is real easy to start with. It can be as simple or as complex as you like. The video will make things a lot clearer. The way it programs beats will be familar to all, its the depth you can go into that is simply breathtaking.
To answer some of the above questions:
V1.0 will indeed not be able to play midi files. I do see the relevance of more extended midi support in future versions.
V1.0 will not yet support separate track export. The "solo-ing" workaround will work to some extent. As PaulB already mentioned, the two-handed restriction routine would require single pass export for separate tracks in order to get consistent results. Separate track export is on my list.
Can't wait to see the video Doug. @Marinus, at least you can isolate the kick by exporting it separately without worrying about two-handed hits. Probably what I'd want to isolate the most. So, days, weeks or months away from release?
My bank account is not looking forward to your video Doug!
My bank account is not looking forward to the entire months of February and March. There's a lot of cool stuff due to come out in this time frame! :-)
Will v1 allow triggering/live performance of the drum sounds via midi controllers? I'm interested in this for its velocity layering ability, not sure any other iOS sampler has this?
v1.0 not, but this is already on my list. There's a small on-screen velocity-sensitive live-pad that facilitates programming the patterns.
@paulb said "Fairly soon there'll be less building from scratch and more selecting and adapting, which is what a human drummer does really."
Really great point.