bchamorro Posted September 13, 2011 Share Posted September 13, 2011 When you're making beats for electronic music, do you like to use a sequencer like Ultrabeat/Geist/iDrum or do you prefer to just drag and drop the 1 shot audio samples into the arrange window and go from there? What do you do? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
druu Posted September 13, 2011 Share Posted September 13, 2011 I drag and drop one shots, I just find audio easier to handle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmaison Posted September 13, 2011 Share Posted September 13, 2011 i use the piano roll, midi is so much easier and quicker, essentially your doing the same thing by using the arrange window with the audio samples, but you can program a whole song withing a few minutes the midi way Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rainstick Posted September 24, 2011 Share Posted September 24, 2011 yeh... i kind of swing between... At the moment im mainly using midi for stuff... I have a few exs sampler's with various drums and stuff, ill program in a beat then set the EXS to multi out so i have the kick's and snare's on their own thing... a lot of people use audio though..... and it is cool because you can control the decay of the hit's far more accurately than you can with the EXS... I with the Exs had a 'hold' or something on it's envelope, rather than just have a fading decay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fader8 Posted September 24, 2011 Share Posted September 24, 2011 ... I with the Exs had a 'hold' or something on it's envelope, rather than just have a fading decay. Not sure what you mean. I modulate Hold or Env2 Release with the EXS.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rainstick Posted September 25, 2011 Share Posted September 25, 2011 yeh.... i just meant so that there was a slider so that the amount of time the noise would be on could be set, so that it would be all, then nothing... Where as the release time will always create a fade.... won't it, ? i know you could do this by adjusting the length of the midi note... but it'd be nice if it was on the env too... maybe there's something im missing though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael2 Posted September 25, 2011 Share Posted September 25, 2011 i like to build the beats in midi, then bounce to audio (just because midi is so quick). i do all of the processing after things have been converted to audio (compression, chopping, manipulating, etc...). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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