MIDI Drum rolls

[Guacamole1372]

Hi

New to the forum so hello.

I'm recording solo after many years in bands and I'm finding my main weakness is getting a good drum track down. I'm especially frustrated trying to design drum rolls. Does anyone know if I can find template patterns or tricks out there anywhere?

Thanks

[tacman7]

Search the internet (free midi files), download .mid files for free, import them into cubase (file menu) and steal away.

You can also modify existing patterns/fills to suit your needs.

[brandondrury]

You may want to take a look at EZ Player by Toontrack. I generally hate dealing with loops and such, but there library thing is badass and easy to use.

Brandon

[garww]

There are a lot of things in acoustic instrument performance that just don't translate well to MIDI. Determine how your roll fit's into that concept and either just make a MIDI representation, or record a real roll.

Having a collection of .mid files to "learn" from is a great help. You can see how the programmers fail and how the real masters do it. A roll is usually three different hits ?