In regard to where a Protean Drums Rom can be found, my best
suggesetion would be to keep an eye on things like e-bay.
Concerning the post I promised to make, below you will find a retype
of what is contained in the PX-7 manual in regard to creating custom
drum kits. As this comes from the PX-7 manual, some of what it
details is Protean Drum Rom specific, however, a fair amount of the
ideas it offers I've found can easily be applied to just about any ROM
one may have. Hope you all find this usefull.
Regards,
Al
FLEXIBLE KIT VARIATIONS
We've provided lots of different ways to create new kits based on
existing instruments. We'll use the "Bread n Butter" kit as an
example. Each of the other five acoustic kits follow the basic template.
003 kit:Bread & Butter- This is a complete kit with all
velocity-switch layers built in. This kit is presented as an all in
one instrument, including hats and generic general MIDI percussion
below B0 and above F3.
008 kit:B&B No Hats- This is the same kit as 003, with noting on the
keys where the hi hats would be.
009 kit:BnB no GM- This is the same kit without hats or general MIDI
percussion.
018 kit:B&B HOTLayer - This kit presents just the hottest velocity
level layer of the kit without hat or General MIDI percussion.
711 kit:BnBNoGMNoPan- This kit presents the git without toms panned.
716 kit:BnB No GM v2 - This variation provides a different velocity
switch feel for teh same instrument based on creating different switch
points between the layers of samples per key. For example, it will be
harder to reach the top velocity in one layout. Various versions follow.
789 kit:BnB Layer 1 - This variation presents only teh lowest velocity
layer.
790-792 - These kits present three other velocity layers separately so
that you can create your own layering and switching.
780 kit:B&B Clap - D#1 has the GM standard clap on D#1 instead of the
press roll or other cool snare sound we provide usually on D#1.
Each component group of each acoustic kit is also provided under its
own prefix. Only the keys used by those components (in a standard
drum map) are filled, leaving the rest blank for layering.
Example:
0075 cym:BreadnButter (C#2, D2, D#2, E2 etc.)
0053 hat:BreadnButter (F#1, G#1, A#1)
0059 kik:BreadnButter (B0, C1)
0064 snr:BreadnButter (C#1, D1, D#1, E1)
0069 tom:BreadnButter (F1, G1, A1, etc.)
0050 gen:GM noKickB0 (below C0 and above F3)
This way, you can mix and match components from different kits into
your own custom kit in a preset. YOu can use link presets (lnk:___)
if you run out of layers.
Example:
1.Starting with preset 127-3 (the basic default), select 060
kik:Studio for layer 1.
2.Select 0064 snr:BreadnButter for layer 2.
3.Select 055 hat:Studio 2 for layer 3.
4.Select 072 tom:Stadium Rock for layer 4.
5.Go to LInk 1 and assign present 111-3 lnk:Cym4 for the cymbals and
if desired, assign 107-3 lnk:GM1 for the extraneous percussion up the
keyboard and below B0.
You have now created a custom kit and you can adjust the pans and
volumes, filters, tunings, and envelopes of each component seperately.
(Or just dial up separate MIDI channels for each component and do it
the multitimbral way!)
You can also mix various acoustic and synth kit layers on top of each
other for blended hybrid kits. When in doubt, use key range limits to
confine drums to the keys you desire.
YOu can find each velocity layer of each component separately in their
respective prc instruments. For example, 080 prc:All Kicks 1 contains
every kick sample in the box one per key. And 163 prc: Kick 1 through
255 prc:Kick 93 offer each individual kick pitched on C4 and stretched
over the entire keyboard for your listening pleasure.
For instant gratification, plr (player) instruments have been created
especially for PX-7 owners to use transpose and audition important
parts of each major acoustic kit with and without hats and also some
of the synth kits. These can be heard in presets 000-0 and 001-0
--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, Smith <smithrsmith@...> wrote:
>
> HEY AL.....do you know where I can find a PX 7 ROM that I can
install in my XL 7 station I already have the MP 7 installed in
it......thanks ...Peace...smith
>
> Alien <23rdsigil@...> wrote: I've noticed the self created
drum map issue come up a few times in
> the archives, and I'll note that I myself have wonered in regard to
> effective means of creating such.
>
> My typical hang up was that one would be limited to a drum map
> containing only 4 drums, but while tearing through my PX-7 manual, I
> ran into an interesting section that actually dealt with creating drum
> maps.
>
> The primary basis of the approach was based on patch linking.....I
> don't know why I never thought of this myself, but such an approach
> does move the 4 drum limitation up to 12 (a decent amount).
>
> The manual also goes into some things in regard to utilizing existing
> drum maps....I don't remember off hand what it states, but I will
> offer up retype of what is actually in the manual later on this
> evening when I have time.
>
> Regards,
>
> Al
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Re: Creating Drum Maps
2006-04-27 by Alien