Trigger MIDI Note from REX "slice"???

[smoore98]

I have had such a hard time trying to get DFH Superior or ANY drum software to actually play the beats I want by using the keyboard notes (off time even with quantize), and I am not very good at doing note by note programming the stuff in. I have had to move over to stereo drum loops (one day I'll get Discrete Drums). I like the fact that you can just import the audio and put an intro, verse, chorus, etc and have a song instantly on the drums. I have been using the M-Audio Pro Sessions which work well with Reason as well as Cubase. The problem is that I am stuck with the drum sound and it is hard to drop a single note (like every other snare hit).

Can I somehow map a single "slice" in the REX file that represents the snare to trigger a MIDI note that would make DFH play the snare note at that same exact moment? In this way, I could map the drum notes to their "slice" and cause DFH to actually play the beat I want IN TIME. I can then play with that beat, taking stuff out and putting stuff in, and analyzing the way the note maps look so I can learn how to program grooves and fills and stuff without having to buy a new loop CD when I have a new song idea. I just purchased the Drum refill version 2 from Propellerheads and I am hoping to get some use out of it like this. Is this easily done?

And if anyone has any links they would suggest on that note-by-note midi programming crap....I would actually like to learn how to program the kind of beats in my head.....

Thanks,
Scott

[mogWai]

In theory, yes

Its a long time since I used Reason, but when you have sliced up a loop with Dr. Rex - isnt this outputted to the sequencer as a MIDI sequence? Its then the MIDI sequence that triggers the slices in Dr. Rex.

You would have to check the manual because I'm not entirely certain about that...

but once you have a loop sliced and a MIDI pattern created from it - you can just send that MIDI to DFHS.. obvioulsy changing the notes to trigger DFHS snares..

[Ol' Betsey]

Yeah, It's real easy.

What I do is this:

1. Create Dr:Rex Player and Redrum modules
2. Load a REX file into a Dr:Rex player and any other set of sounds you want to use in Redrum.
3. Use the 'to track' button above the REX waveform display to send all the midi data from the rex file to both Dr:Rex track also the Redrum track.

And voila, Dr:Rex playing original loop and Redrum firing off your new sounds from the original REX file midi data.

I sometimes take rockier REX files and get them triggering electronic sounds. Fun... :-)

Good luck,

R.

P.S. Dr:Rex is just a file player though. If you want to use files that aren't 'rexed' yet you need to use Recycle.