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...click or sticks?

...click or sticks?

2011-03-31 by somethingkillingyou

hi,

I'm becoming more and more familiar with the sequencer, but let's say I need the countoff before the song start, but I don't want to hear the horrid "click", but the classic drumsticks or closed hi-hat 4/4 precount (1 bar), what do I have to do? 

I thought I could just record a song track with that single bar precount using a drum sound (sticks, hihat, ride, whatever), but song tracks are as long as the whole song, the song being a 'collection' of step whose patterns of course are not 1 bar long, but usually 4 or 8 or more bars, otherwise I would have used a 1 single repetion step with muted tracks, to have the extra bar before the song actually stars... 

I'm asking because I would like to avoid wasting a sequence/song location, since there are only 60 available...

thanks

Fabio

Re: ...click or sticks?

2011-03-31 by somethingkillingyou

excuse me for all of the writing typos, here it's late night now, I think I should just go to bed, but I can't get to sleep if there's an idea stuck in my mind... 
I think then I should just check out what I write before posting :)

--- In Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com, "somethingkillingyou" <somethingkillingyou@...> wrote:
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> hi,
> 
> I'm becoming more and more familiar with the sequencer, but let's say I need the countoff before the song start, but I don't want to hear the horrid "click", but the classic drumsticks or closed hi-hat 4/4 precount (1 bar), what do I have to do? 
> 
> I thought I could just record a song track with that single bar precount using a drum sound (sticks, hihat, ride, whatever), but song tracks are as long as the whole song, the song being a 'collection' of step whose patterns of course are not 1 bar long, but usually 4 or 8 or more bars, otherwise I would have used a 1 single repetion step with muted tracks, to have the extra bar before the song actually stars... 
> 
> I'm asking because I would like to avoid wasting a sequence/song location, since there are only 60 available...
> 
> thanks
> 
> Fabio
>

Re: [Ensoniq-VFX-SD] Re: ...click or sticks?

2011-03-31 by Ed Talbot

Sequencer section/"Click button"/ underline "countoff"/select "quiet" . Gives you 1 bar of silent count-off.
if I get your question....
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Subject: [Ensoniq-VFX-SD] Re: ...click or sticks?

excuse me for all of the writing typos, here it's late night now, I think I should just go to bed, but I can't get to sleep if there's an idea stuck in my mind...
I think then I should just check out what I write before posting :)

--- In Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com, "somethingkillingyou" wrote:
>
>; hi,
>
> I'm becoming more and more familiar with the sequencer, but let's say I need the countoff before the song start, but I don't want to hear the horrid "click", but the classic drumsticks or closed hi-hat 4/4 precount (1 bar), what do I have to do?
>
> I thought I could just record a song track with that single bar precount using a drum sound (sticks, hihat, ride, whatever), but song tracks are as long as the whole song, the song being a 'collection' of step whose patterns of course are not 1 bar long, but usually 4 or 8 or more bars, otherwise I would have used a 1 single repetion step with muted tracks, to have the extra bar before the song actually stars...
>
> I'm asking because I would like to avoid wasting a sequence/song location, since there are only 60 available...
>
> thanks
>
> Fabio
>

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Re: ...click or sticks?

2011-03-31 by somethingkillingyou

ok, but I don't want silent count-off, I want the count-off to sound like drumsticks hit together or closed hi-hat, like a real drummer would play!

--- In Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com, "Ed Talbot" <sonxpro@...> wrote:
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> Sequencer section/"Click button"/ underline "countoff"/select "quiet" . Gives you 1 bar of silent count-off.
> 
> if I get your question....
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: somethingkillingyou 
>   To: Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com 
>   Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 8:46 PM
>   Subject: [Ensoniq-VFX-SD] Re: ...click or sticks?
> 
> 
>     
>   excuse me for all of the writing typos, here it's late night now, I think I should just go to bed, but I can't get to sleep if there's an idea stuck in my mind... 
>   I think then I should just check out what I write before posting :)
> 
>   --- In Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com, "somethingkillingyou" <somethingkillingyou@> wrote:
>   >
>   > hi,
>   > 
>   > I'm becoming more and more familiar with the sequencer, but let's say I need the countoff before the song start, but I don't want to hear the horrid "click", but the classic drumsticks or closed hi-hat 4/4 precount (1 bar), what do I have to do? 
>   > 
>   > I thought I could just record a song track with that single bar precount using a drum sound (sticks, hihat, ride, whatever), but song tracks are as long as the whole song, the song being a 'collection' of step whose patterns of course are not 1 bar long, but usually 4 or 8 or more bars, otherwise I would have used a 1 single repetion step with muted tracks, to have the extra bar before the song actually stars... 
>   > 
>   > I'm asking because I would like to avoid wasting a sequence/song location, since there are only 60 available...
>   > 
>   > thanks
>   > 
>   > Fabio
>   >
> 
> 
> 
>   
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