Beatscape NEWB questions

As Forest Gump would say. I'm not an intelligent man. So please keep any responses simple.

BEATSCAPE:

• I've enabled midi out and STILL it does not record in an armed MIDI track. It lights up like it's recording, but no data there.
• How do I get Beatscape to match tempo of a metronome track. ie: I want to use factory settings which are 122 BPM, but my session is 108. How do I adjust to get 122 down to 108 to match?
• I just want to add a good rhythm track that matches my already recorded music. Am I trying to use the wrong tool ?

Thank you for any help in this!

Michael Stone

rstollen


Hi Michael,

When you're recording from Beatscape, you cannot do it by clicking on the keyboard in the Beatscape GUI. You need to trigger a Beatscape sound with a hardware MIDI controller. That, or you can use the Piano Roll View (PRV) to add the note that corresponds to the Beatscape trigger (C1 for example).

Beatscape does properly follow the project's tempo, assuming that you are using REX files or ACID files (or groove clips created with the Loop Construction View). If you are trying to use Beatscape with normal wave files, Beatscape cannot adapt the file to the project's tempo. But to convert the normal wave file into a groove clip, you can load the audio file into an audio track in the Track View, and then select it and use Ctrl-L (which will convert it into a groove clip). After that, you can drag the new clip from the Track View into one of the Beatscape pads.

If you are just looking at a simple way of adding drums beats to your project, You ought to check out Session Drummer 2.

Enjoy.

Rstollen....

EXCELLENT ! I will give this a try when I get back to the studio later today. I never imagined the GUI on the Beatscape interface wouldn't adjust to tempo. I'll give the hardware controller approach a try and (fingers crossed) hope it matches up the tempos.

Also thanks for the WAV tip. I can just see myself spending multiple hours trying to figure that one out as well.

I have used Session 2  drummer but have not been totally satisfied.  That's why I was looking at Beatscape as an alternative. Not only that but I was bound and determined to figure out why I couldn't get this to work properly.

Many thanks for your assistance.

Michael

they aren't a like..lol

perhaps you should have got the update instead of just..... guessing and talking nick speak

(i.e. not fact)

I did just find this and hope it will lead me down the path when I get to the studio today:

From Sound On Sound:

Playing Slices From A Keyboard
When you call up the piano roll view for a track recorded using a MIDI keyboard to trigger slices, Slices and Pads are shown along the left instead of piano notes.
When you call up the piano roll view for a track recorded using a MIDI keyboard to trigger slices, Slices and Pads are shown along the left instead of piano notes.

Playing pads and playing slices from a keyboard are different operations. As noted earlier, to record pad hits you need to 'Enable MIDI Output' and set the Beatscape MIDI track's input to listen to the Beatscape virtual MIDI Out. However, this trick doesn't seem to work with the virtual keyboard keys along the bottom, even though clicking on them will trigger individual samples. (According to the online Help, this should be possible but if not, it wouldn't be the first time the Help and instrument itself were out of sync.) But you can trigger individual slices from an external MIDI keyboard and record the results into Sonar. In this case, you'd set the Beatscape MIDI track's input to listen to your external MIDI controller, and record MIDI notes into the track as you normally would when playing any external keyboard.
So why would you want to play slices from a keyboard? Well, you can rearrange the order of slices on the fly by simply playing the keys. Another use is with a drum loop where individual slices have individual drum sounds. You can play these sounds as you would a drum kit, without going through the hassle of bringing the file into a digital audio editor, separating out the hits, placing them on pads, and so on.

http://www.soundonsound.c...sonarworkshop_0109.htm