Practice with real recordings

[Djembe-nerd]

I recorded with a friend all the sounds of an ensemble separately. Then I place these sounds in reaper and practice with it.

When I am playing a djembe part, I mute that one and same with other parts. haven't got the dununs yet cos of space, but that can be done too.

Attached an example. It sound a little artificial on head phone but on big speakers is good. This was an earlier mp3 burnt, now I have refined the sounds to even more natural.

Its not the artificial sound of percussion studio or others, its real sound recorded and then played back, Does any of you do the same?

[michi]

I recorded with a friend all the sounds of an ensemble separately. Then I place these sounds in reaper and practice with it.

More practice is better

Its not the artificial sound of percussion studio or others, its real sound recorded and then played back, Does any of you do the same?

Percussion Studio allows you to add your own sound samples, so you can create new instruments. (From memory, up to twelve different sounds per instrument.)

I haven't done much work practicing with Percussion Studio (or any other sequencer) so far, but I'm considering doing that a little more.

Cheers,

Michi.

[Rhythm House Drums]

You can actually record your own sounds and plug them into percussion studio... I haven't tried this yet... but I do record myself and play it back while I practice a different part. I have a looper, so I can record a dunun phrase and loop it with a pedal switch... then just play the djembe parts over it.. could even add the djembe part to the looping dununs.. and the loop all that and practice solos. It lets you speed up or slow down by taping your foot on the pedal to the beat..if you tap faster, it'll speed up. It keeps the sound natural, but you can't speed way up or down, maybe 20 to 30 bmp... never measured though. Boss RC-20XL I think I've posted about it before. It's nice. Got mine off ebay.... it has memory so you can save a specific loop (can save sofa dununs on one track and moribayassa on another... I think there's 11 total) and pull it up later so you dont have to play those parts again. I'm using mine less now that I've been playing around with Logic Studio... but it's fun and can be a good tool. It's great as a metronome. I hate playing with a metronome.. but practicing timing and speed on djembe by setting up dunun rhythm with the loop station makes it fun and gives it some feel. I use percussion studio often, especially if I don't feel like setting my mics and want to play something different. I also like it because I think/feel visually... so I can lay out ideas in my head that my hands wont play yet... and then I have it recorded to come back to and play around with before I forget it.

[Djembe-nerd]

Yes, I also place the sound of the djembes and dunun at the right beats, and then loop it. Play as long as I can.

I dont burn it in MP3 and then run the Mp3. Just do it in the reaper itself. The rhythym sound too clean and the swing is not there, but can be introduced by shifting the beats, but the sounds are natural. And once I make a file for a rhythym I save it and its for ever. Just click and play

I will try and see if I can put the same things in PS.

[Djembe-nerd]

You can actually record your own sounds

Yes, thats what we did. We played each instrument one by one and recorded the sounds. Dununs, bells, 1st djembe (higher pitch), 2nd djembe ( lower).

Then its a matter of putting these per rhythym and I have have 5 people playing for me