EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Thanks!  I appreciate your response. :) 

--- In exs-users@yahoogroups.com, GAmoore@a... wrote:
> >>> I've never really "officially" learned the proper way to lay 
down
> >>> drum beats in Logic.  It's painful as I play in real time on 
my keys
> >>> and then go back and fix it.  Is there a better way?  Do one 
of the
> >>> editors offer more?  Either Hyper or Matrix?
> 
> I get the best results by playing live with my kurzweil keyboard 
on a drum 
> patch with the midi being recorded. I might play 50 bars to get 
one or two great 
> bars with a great feel- usually quite far off from being 
quantized. One you 
> have that, you can move the midi to another track - including the 
virus or 
> softsynths.
> 
> I wish the Virus had a drum kit patch like the Nord Lead 2. I 
almost feel 
> like buying the Nord just for those drum patches.
> 
> Back to the drum programming - you can easily do it in the matrix 
window - 
> just write a note and copy and paste, then play with movement and 
quantizing. 
> 
> You can also cut some audio up (from a commericial CD) in recyce, 
then import 
> the midi file or the rex file into Logic, and then change the 
sounds. You can 
> also do this in Logic using the audio to midi function - often 
with a lot of 
> garbage, so I don't usually do these.
> 
> Logic also has some sort of drum hyperset or something which I 
never use. I 
> often wish it would just have a simple Recycle style sequence 
programmer. But 
> the matrix actually does the same thing.