[Dream] Drums - sampled? - Sound Forge

[Joshua Tinnin]

On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 04:04:30PM +0100, Kudos wrote:
> Joshua Tinnin wrote:
> 
>     On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 01:02:06PM -0400, andrei.henry at utoronto.ca wrote:
>     ...
> 
> 
>             I know someone (Doofus?) said they liked Reason for controlling drums.
>             Any other opinions? All I have is Cubase SX 3 so far, but am buying
>             something this weekend ... not sure, maybe Reason, maybe Sound Forge,
>             maybe some VST soft synths ...
> 
>         use a softsampler in SX to trigger your previously-found drum samples.
> 
> 
> 
>     OK, I know this is going to sound stupid, but how do you do that? I am a
>     little familiar with drum maps, but I don't know how to trigger a sample
>     with Cubase. All I've ever done in the past is copy the sample to
>     different locations in an audio track. And I've read through the whole
>     manual and can't seem to figure it out ...
> 
>     - jt
> 
> That's when a VST sampler comes in handy...Halion, Sampletank, Mach 5 and the
> Native Instruments one, oh there's just loads, even free.  I don't think you
> can 'trigger' a sample by midi any other way.  Hit F11 to bring up the
> Instrument Panel, load the VST sampler in there, and then you load the samples
> into it, mappin them to keys in the sampler.  Then you create a MIDI track,
> point the output of it to the sampler, create a midi part and draw/record your
> drum patterns in there.  To add VST effects you're adding them to the sampler's
> output channel(s).  Halion's good because from version 3 you can specify how
> many stereo and mono channels it has (and you can have LOADS).
> 
> Olly

Sweet. You have been very helpful, as have several other people. Thanks
for being patient with my inexperience in digital. I'm beginning to get
a much more complete idea of how to do this now. I hope to have
something to post in the next few months - so far all my experiments
have been coming out distinctly non-psy, but mostly right now I'm just
trying to get familiar with it. Looks like my next purchases are going
to be VST plugins - probably HALion and maybe Z3TA+ or the Korg Analog
Legacy Collection. I'd like to get some hardware synths, but the budget
won't allow it, yet ...

- jt