Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Hello all any suggestions on some cheep software for recording and 
making some sheet music?

Thanks, Gator

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "gatormikeb35" <gatormikeb35@...> wrote:
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> Hello all any suggestions on some cheep software for recording and 
> making some sheet music?
> 
> Thanks, Gator
>

Gator,

I am not sure if is quite what you want, but I find Tabtrax useful for
quickly turning drumming into printable music.  It is intended for
importing drum tabs, but I just use it for writing drum parts.  Most
music notation software I have tried seem to be very poor at catering
for drum kits.

http://2112design.com/

Keith.

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, Michael Benjamin <gatormikeb35@...>
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> Hey Keith this looks like it may do the trick, I'm going to use my
kit to write some parts for my daughters High School drumline.  
>    
>   Dose this record the wav files if you hook up the kit to the PC
using Midi Imputs?  I lost my software that I had, when I moved a few
months ago., that is why I'm looking for something new.

I don't think so, but you can play an MP3 or WAV file while it
simultaneously plays the drum part you have written.  There is a start
offset so you can synchronise them and it shows an image of the audio
file.  It isn't perfect by any means, but for the money it is quite
good.  I started to use it to sort out all the scraps of paper I am
left with when my drum teacher leaves, and also to help sorting out
the drum parts for new songs.

Keith.

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, Michael Benjamin <gatormikeb35@...>
wrote:
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> Dose it take your recorded wav file and convert it to paper, or dose
it take what you key in the program and make the wav.  I'm a little
confussed now.

Neither.  You can simply play the wav while it plays the drum part you
have written.  However, you don't have to use the wav/mp3 feature if
you just want some notation software.

There is software which will try to create a midi or music score from
an audio file, but I haven't found one which is accurate and anything
but hard work yet.

Keith.

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, Michael Benjamin <gatormikeb35@...>
wrote:
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> Ok sounds like you're looking for something like I am..  I'm looking
for something to pick up my hits off the triggers and assign them to
lines on the sheet music.  You would think with all the stuff out
there for doing scores for piano, that something would work to pick up
the triggers.  Even if there was something we could find to pick up
each trigger hit that we could assign the lines per that trigger would
be great.

Tabtrax won't record the pad hits - it is simply a method of creating
your own drum score.  There may be something which will turn your pad
hits into music - I don't know.  You can certainly record your session
on the DTXpress [midi] and there is software which will turn midi into
music, but I don't know how well they work for drums.  MidiIllustrator
is one http://www.midiillustrator.com/

I am afraid drums are very poorly catered for in many areas of music.
 Have you every tried to find some drum music for popular songs?  If
you played guitar it would be no problem :-(

Keith.

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "gatormikeb35" <gatormikeb35@...> wrote:
>
> Hello all any suggestions on some cheep software for recording and 
> making some sheet music?
> 
> Thanks, Gator
>

Use a sequencer en convert your midi's to mp3 or whatever.....

With the sequencer you can make sheet music, if you use the correct
drum map.
I use cubase to record my drums and make drumscores for songs.

Tom