I’ve always written songs with a drummist. Jam away, song develops then add lyrics.
Currently without a band. Which makes me sad, I mean I’ve been playing in heavy metal bands for nigh on 40yrs. Any ways….
With all this AI malarkey- is there a drum machine that listens to what you’re playing and jams along?
I am thinking probably not, but also probably not that far away.
Anyways….in the absence of that - what drum machine would you recommend?
I’ll be plugging it into my mixing desk and feeding it through my PA to jam along with - so no PC based solutions please.
Whilst I can explain to a drummist the kind of sound I want (“play ba-dumpa-dumpa here”) I have no real idea about drumming* so please bear that in mind.
*beyond standing stage left for my whole gig career has truly fucked my right ear cos of the cymbals
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It's a pedal. You arm it, play a couple of riffs, it detects the length, tempo and style and generates a drummer and bass player that play along. The drummer is assembled from a set of samples in it's libraray but they are real drum fills, you can't see the joins. The bass blayer is some synthesised hybrid which can get a bit off key if you let it or you can one shot it. It has a looper so second time around you arm the loop and record your riffs over the top. Then away you go, noodle heaven. Loop out to amp and rhythm to your interface. And you can sequence 5 parts. Here's a quick demo.
got an additional footswitch as well.
https://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/250469/pedals
As for "when am I ready?" You'll never be ready. It works in reverse, you become ready by doing it. - pmbomb
Me and my premature GAS....
Got a Trio plus.
EZ Drummer 3 promised something similar.
I found them both fantastically average at it. In the end I threw the towel in and hired/paid a session guy. It just turned into too much faffing about. For me it was a fast track to kill a passion.
Drummer is really just a series of presets arranged on a grid, rather than in a list.
There isn't a lot of intelligence in there- although I expect that to change in successive releases.
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I'm asking because I'm rubbish with programming drums and need some tracks that cover a lot of time signature changes, so it all gets complicated, too complicated, for me to do.