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Out of curiosity, What do you prefer for drumming: swing in the step sequencer or using the piano roll?

when i was in FL i used swing in the step almost exclusively for that kinda stuff.

Both - heavily swung triplet hi-hat patterns, bounced out then dropped directly into playlist.

i convert to piano roll when i want to make a really complex beat, if not just standard step sequencer and swing

You can make your own chop patterns, add swing, velocity variations and then just lay down one note and then select from the presets... speeds up workflow tremendously.

Anyone Using FPC in the Piano roll? That was always my preference, but the other day I tried the step sequencer with swing, got me wondering how other peeps like their programming.
I think I like it better the step sequencer way tbh, easier for playing with an individual drum sample/break

I use the step sequencer. Never really messed around with the FPC to be honest. Step sequencer/piano roll gives you so much control.

One benefit is that it's easy for you to copy notes with specific properties to different patterns in the piano roll imo

I use step sequencer for hits on the grid and everything else (mainly hats) go into the piano roll.

For the step sequencer heads, do you usually group channels?

zerbaman wrote:For the step sequencer heads, do you usually group channels?

Yes, standard mixer layout for me for the drums would be;

Kick 1
Kick 2
-Kick Bus
Snare 1
Snare 2
-Snare Bus
Hat 1
Hat 2
Hat 3
-Hat Bus
Perc 1
Perc 2
Perc 3
-Perc Bus
--Beats Bus

legend4ry wrote:I use step sequencer for hits on the grid and everything else (mainly hats) go into the piano roll.

Same here. I just lay down a simple kick, snare and hats pattern in the sequencer and tweak the swing knob there.

Then i mess around with additional snare, hats and other percussion just jamming on my controller.
If i like what i hear i press record and the notes go straight into the piano roll for editing.
I do it like this because you achieve imperfections in timing and velocity. If it's really too off, quick quantize is a dream. I sure am not a metronome. haha.

Peace.

K.

ALWAYS in the step sequencer.. i dont really enjoy fine tuning that much and i rarely (never unless its recorded like that, really) open the piano roll for drums......... plus i think fl's built in swing sounds great

edit: i try to get rough levels of everything correct when i first open shit in the step sequencer.. then when the foundation of the song is laid out i usually just link every sound to the mixer and EQ/whatev

wub wrote:

zerbaman wrote:For the step sequencer heads, do you usually group channels?

Yes, standard mixer layout for me for the drums would be;

Kick 1
Kick 2
-Kick Bus
Snare 1
Snare 2
-Snare Bus
Hat 1
Hat 2
Hat 3
-Hat Bus
Perc 1
Perc 2
Perc 3
-Perc Bus
--Beats Bus

I just meant in the step sequencer, I guess ours are pretty similar, I only ever bus my kicks and snares though