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Driving Drums from Sound
I have been trying to get myself to be able to play something and have it drive sounds, and I found Voxkit. Great little app, and I can drive drum sounds through Drumagog in Auria. But I really love the sounds and the percussion that is available in Thumbjam.
@sonosaurus, I posted a question on the Thumbjam forum, doesn't look like it's being monitored. But I came here and saw a post from you that says that you can trigger Thumbjam with external sound. If I can target a particular sample in Thumbjam with a sound, so I can play a consistent drum set and have each pad/item give me a different sample, that would be great. What would be truly perfect would be able to drive a different one of Thumbjams channels into Auria, with a different "note" or sample sound from Thumbjam. Or, use Voxkit to drive that. But there is nothing in the manual really on using the microphone to drive sounds in Thumbjam, and no way to determine what midi note each percussion instrument is, at least that I've been able to see. Any thoughts from anyone would be wonderful.
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Impaktor does precisely this:
Impaktor - The drum synthesizer by BeepStreet
https://appsto.re/us/wK7pH.i
Lots of tutorials on YouTube. Here's one:
Doesn't look like it. WIth Voxkit, say I had a tin can and a piece of carpet. I can set it up so hitting the tin can will drive one channel in Voxkit, and hitting the piece of carpet will drive another channel. So, I could have a snare with my left hand, a hi hat with my right, and have each of those go to a seperate channel in Auria. I can use it to drive other apps that will take midi as well. I can have up to four channels. So, I want to be able to have multiple different sounds, and have each one routed to a different input strip in Auria.
Can voxkit send out to a different midi channel per sound? If so, you could set up TJ to play 4 different drum sounds (one per channel) and set the pitch tracking off.
http://thumbjam.com/usersguide#splitsandmulti-instrumentpopup
Yes, I've done that before, the splits, and it works. What I don't understand is how to set each split receive a different channel or notes. Docs are not super clear. But I see that section about selecting the split, then changing settings. That might be it.
It's not about the splits, it's the slots (the 8 buttons). When the Midi channel start is set to 1, the instrument in the first slot will respond to channel 1, the second to channel 2 and so on.
VoxKit is doing the right thing for what you need, TJ's audio tracking mode is only designed for recognizing pitch.
However, if you just want to use different hits in an existing TJ drum kit, you shouldn't need to create separate single hit versions to use on different midi channels, you should be able to get vox kit to assign a specific midi note for each one. You just need to do a little trial and error to figure out which note number triggers the right hit in TJ for a given kit. The whole set of pads in a kit is represented by consecutive midi notes, and is repeated across the entire keyboard range. Once you find one, it isn't going to change on you.
How come you put the midi notes on the pitched instruments, and not on the percussion?
It would sure come in handy about now.
Brilliant app, btw.
If I want to get the individual TJ drums, (snare, hi hat, floor, etc.) onto different Auria tracks, do I not need to get them to go to the different slots? I think that's what Auria recognizes.
Ah, if you want to record them separately then yes. Just load the drum kit into each of the four slots, then direct voxkit to the appropriate channel and note for each one.
Tx kindly for the info.
Brilliant. Works perfectly. Now to construct a drum set.