Mastodawn

I've been thinking about drums and how Reason has the option of instrument lanes, and can this be done in Bitwig Studio?

Editing programmed drums can be aided by having a note lane for each voice.

Today's solution is to use a Group Track to hold the Drum Machine and a Note FX Layer to route Instrument Tracks into the Group Track. This feels like a good way to continue. This will hopefully find its way into my next #FSOBW track

#BitwigStudio #Reason #ElectronicMusicProduction #LinuxAudio #BonkWave #NotBonkWave

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Morten Mosgaard

@ambientspace I don’t really know Reaper, but what you are searching for, is a way to split a drum Machine track into several tracks, one for each drum?

I’m asking because there is a function for splitting the sounds up in the mixer when mixing (just open the instrument like a Group/Folder). But from the picture this is not the feature you’re after.

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Chris Mills 2d ago

@mosgaard the goal is to achieve separate MIDI lanes for each drum (BD, Snare, HH) for easier editing. And the collective lanes all feed MIDI note data into the Drum Machine (or Rack Extension in this screenshot).

I prefer the solution with #BitwigStudio over #Reason as I can assign a number of random operators in Bitwig to notes for ever changing velocity, timing, and probability (not possible in Reason 12 with my current collection of REs).

This way I can create note clips that I can chop and change with (either in the Clip Launcher or Arranger).

There is a lot of prep work required to set it all up in Bitwig, but it helps to build muscle memory for working with UI and fits into what I call admin
time vs creative time.

(I'm in Windows this morning messing with #Insydium particles in #Blender - which is coming soon for #Linux.)

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Morten Mosgaard 2d ago

@ambientspace in that case it sounds like you have a very good solution to build on already!

Great work!