Showing posts with label Software. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Software. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Native Instruments: Battery3 Review:

Sheldon:
I really like this program. I use it for most of the drums and percussion sounds for Lucid Dementia music, including on the laptop for the live drums. Unfortanately, after a year of struggling with it, we have discovered is that it is too slow to keep up with AzilX's fast drumming during some of the faster songs. Specifically on songs that have intricate fast hihat action. I contacted Native Instruments and their main solution was for us to get a faster laptop with more memory. Oh. Let me pull that out of my butt...
I've heard there are drum programs that aren't such memory/CPU hogs. Anybody out there know of any that would allow us to load our own sounds?

In the meantime, I'm programming the drums that don't work in Battery 3 on the Roland TD-6V module, but some of the snare sounds that I created don't really exist in the module. It will be close, but for me, it's like using a pipe organ when the original was played with a piano...

Monday, January 26, 2009

Reaper:

My DAW is very old. I know it. I know how to manipulate it to make it give me what I want. But there are new toys out there (soft synths) that I can't use because my DAW is sooooo old and cranky. I'm seriously thinking of putting it to sleep. I just called my old friend Brad, from the band CTRL (see previous post), and he recommended Reaper. It's an open source DAW, it's free to download, or you can buy an official license for about 50 bucks! I'm going to try it. I'm sure with a name like "Reaper" it's got to be AWESOME!