Babz wrote:
Seems like stubbsonic's map might be similar to the "IMAP" developed by Dave "Squids" Kerzner of Sonic Reality...
I can see a couple similarities, but mine is MUCH older, simpler, and symmetrical.
MANY years ago, I saw a wonderful musician playing keyboard drums with a two-handed map back in the early 90s. His right hand had the kick under his thumb, and the left hand had the same kick under his pinky (both on C) the map went up in parallel from there. He was quite good at it. It occurred to me that having matching hands was a good idea, but putting kick under the thumbs just seemed more elegant. I just built my kit based on the symmetrical map and started playing with it. I first made it on my Ensoniq EPS. The later Kurzweil versions started to do things like subbing out drum sounds (multiple bounce roll samples), velocity layers, and a friend and I did a nice multi-velocity kit (heard on the demo vid).
Once I had the basic map, I could create other percussion maps using substitutions where shakers went in where hats were, different conga hits for kick & snare, etc.
I decided at some point, that the map was too useful to keep to myself, so I posted it on a Kurzweil forum.
Speaking of apps, the Lumbeat "drummer" apps (by Luis Martinez) are step sequencer drum machine apps. What makes them especially good is their "jamming" functions which add incredibly life-like variations & fills to the patterns. They are very versatile if you don't need to mess with tempo changes.
M1 MBP; OS 12, FF800, DP 11.3, Kontakt 7, Reaktor 6, PC3K7, K2661S, iPad6, Godin XTSA, Two Ibanez 5 string basses (1 fretted, 1 fretless), FM3, SY-1000, etc.
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