You will have to do some research on this in the the non-computer realm. There have been DJ devices and dance-oriented keyboards which claim to be able to do this. I know this from reading catalogs. One technique I have used is this: 1) get a rough idea of how fast the drummer is playing in BPM. 2) set my sequencer or drum machine to that BPM. 3) start the drum machine manually on the downbeat of every measure in sync with the drummer just by tapping my finger.

This only works with drum machines or samplers that have a start button that starts the music every time it's hit. Some kinds of machines will have a start button that also doubles as a stop button. It won't work with these.

If you have an Alesis HR-16 drum machine, you can use this to start and stop the beats in time with the drummer, and you can also send out MIDI clock this way.

Another technique is to get Finale (mac). This is a long shot, but it works too. There is a mode in finale for tapping the beat while playing in notes. Basically, it allows you to use your own tapping footswitch or keyboard key to set the BPM WHILE your enter in chords with one hand. If you know someone with Finale, ask to borrow the manuals to look up this function. Ask them if they have heard about it. I know of it because of a class I once took using MIDI.

For your setup, this could work because you could be tapping the beat while your friend plays drums and the computer stores the bpm. At the same time, you could use some other computer or hard disk recorder to record the drummer. OK. now you have stored the drummer's performance, and the BPM map. Now you can save the finale file and use finale to add the other MIDI notes and events to that BPM map.

Technically, you could even use a totally different piece of gear or software and save your composition as a standard midi file, then import that file back into finale for the BPM setting.

This is all theorhetical.

My favorite technique is just to record the drummer and to then overdub the electro parts manually

: I hear they have the internet on computers now. How do I download it?

Sarcasmn is the recourse of a weak mind.

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: I'm considering buying the Maya soundcard, it's got a lot of features at a really low price.Anyone have this card or heard anything about it?

Yeah I know that Steve. I was hoping someone had real life experience with this hardware, that's the true test. One thing I like about this card, it has a built in mic preamp, which is a very good thang to have. The Maya card claims to have Asio implentation and be compatible with Gigasampler and Cubase BUT you never know until you try it. So go buy one and tell me how it works. And another thing ,how well will this card support analog to digital conversion. Fuck, man I don't want to be a computer geek but but but that's the bad side of pc recording,got to go through hell to reach heaven. I went into McDonalds the other day and said " I'd like an order of fries and the girl behind the counter said " would you like fries with that"?

O don't no many of the lyrics but if anyone can tell me which song has the words "this means nothing to me.... Oh...."

Hope it makes sense!!!

by the verve pipe

Verse 1: (Verse Riff)
When I was young I knew everything
And she a punk who rarely ever took advice
Now I'm guilt-stricken, sobbing with my head on the floor
Stop a baby's breath and a shoe full of rice, no

Pre-Chorus: (Pre-Chorus Riff)
I can't be held responsible, 'cause she was touching her face
I won't be held responsible, she fell in love in the first place

Chorus: (Chorus Riff)
For the life of me I can not remember
What made us think that we were wise, and we'd never compromise
For the life of me I can not believe
We'd ever die for these sins, we were merely freshmen (Fill 1.)

Verse 2: (Verse Riff)
My best friend took a week's vacation to forget her
His girl took a week's worth of Valium and slept
And now he's guilt-stricken sobbing with his head on the floor
Thinks about her now and how he never really wept, he says

Pre-Chorus (Pre-Chorus Riff w/ Fill 2. 4X)

Chorus (Chorus Riff w/ Fill 2. 4X at the end)

Verse 3: (Chorus Riff)
We've tried to wash our hands of all of this
We never talk of our lacking relationships
And how we're guilt-stricken sobbing with our heads on the floor
We fell through the ice when we tried not to slip, we'd say

Pre-chorus (Pre-Chorus Riff w/ Fill 2. 4X)

Chorus 2X (Chorus Riff 2X)

Outro (Intro Riff 2X w/ Fill 1., then Outro Riff)

I don't know much about fruityloops although I am under the impression that it's a looping program that requires you to input wave files (sample loops) into it and allows you to arrange them simply and quickly.

Reason however, is a series of synths and sampler modules integrated into a studio environment that allows all sorts of channel routing and mixing... In this case, the programs are very different. Reason does have a loop played as one of the instruments so you could import loops to be played. Reasons soundbank is excellent and can be used like a synth to create anything from piano pieces to orchestral arrangements. It's a beat of a program and highly recommended, especially if you have a Midi controller keyboard. Reason hardly touches the CPU on my Mac G4/400 so there is lots of headroom for overload..!

Steve...R

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