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On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 9:03 AM, Buzap Buzap <buzap@gmx.net> wrote: > since we've opened up the topic of drum programming: > Is there any practical advantage of using MPD-style drum pads vs using > midi keyboard for punching down drum patterns? > (I don't even want to get started on Piezo pads - think Zendrum, > Futureman...). I take it you got struck by a typo and actually mean MPC? The question is hypothetical because Akai MPC is known for the great playability of its pads while there are so many different brands of MIDI keyboards of different quality regarding playability in the touch sensitive department. A good thing with the MPC is that the pads bounce back your fingers as you tap them and also that you can make rolls and other drumming effects by a "long press" on one pad. Here I must mention a new highly interesting instrument: the Push that Ableton Live has developed together with Akai. Push is know for relying on the same musical pads quality as Akai used in the MPCs. If I had money and needed a new studio keyboard I would be very tempted by the Push instead of a traditional piano-style keyboard. I think that scales and playing patterns are more logical and playable on the Push than on a piano. Actually, the "normal tuning" of the Push grid has the same tapping patterns as the fourth tunes neck on a Stick. > > Also, while we're at it: > Do you think you could program straight 1/16 hi-hats, then record a midi > foot pedal sort of as automation, simulating hihat pedal? Certainly! Many do so. The MPC has the roll function that would be like your idea if set to 16th notes. In a modular sequencer like Numerology it is easy to make on sixteenth nots sequencer for a hihat and assign a quantized momentary trigger pedal to play it. Older versions of Logic had this too in the Window version. Your idea is a typical example of a highly useful musical tool that gets lost in the industry because theere seem to be too few musicians in the corporate board rooms ;-) I have tried to set up play stations like this for drummers using audio samples of recorded hi-hat patters. It works well but you lose out on a bit of dynamic playing and you suffer a frightening risk of Major Mistake in live playing due to bad triggering of the sequence. I mean, just a few milliseconds early or late will let out the full sequence out of time and force the drummer to improvise stutter effects all through a bar or two in order to cover up, LOL... That's why I think a duly programmed sequence pattern triggered from maybe an eight note quantization is better. But face it, this is a solution for non drummers and can never sound like a drummer because a drummer will never play a two bar hihat pattern in exactly the same way twice :-) But quite often that stiffness sounds good, at least to my taste. Greetings from Sweden Per Boysen www.perboysen.com http://www.youtube.com/perboysen