the M8audio is for audio tracking...JS2 is supposed to follow audio based on the peakes and valleys....however, I have never used it to do that. I use midi tracking or just tempo tracking. If you have a song...all you need to do is one of two things.

1.insert JS2 into a new audio track..... follow midi...it will play your pre-existing midi drum tracks..point the midi tracks to JS2 and select the drum module mode. It will play the input from the drum midi tracks

2. insert JS2 into a new audio track....free style....select the mode that follows the tempo..I don't have it on this computer so I can't tell you exactly the name... not audio, not midi, not drum module.....I think there's another mode....any way... just hit play and it will create a drum track for you. I think you need to have a song template loaded....so it knows what to do....there are many default templates ex: 12 bar blues.....

Just play around with it and experiment. keep us posted.

In my rig...I need to have something in the host for it to play. even on the no input .... follow the song menu as a guide. There has to be measures of something there or it stops. So I insert a midi track, enter one note on the beat of 1 and copy it and paste as many measures as I need for the song.

Hi Rob & Herb thanks a lot for the details of your own JS2 setups; I'm sure this'll help me figure out my new setup; I wasn't able to get back to my music stuff until yesterday, since buying and downloading the JS2 Friday - the install and reg. went fine, and I got in and registered the drumkit plug-in, that said all was OK. Going into MC4 then, I setup a MIDI/Audio track pair per the VSTi procedure, and tried to select something - JS2 came up ok and I started browsing through some presets, when it crashed MC4 big-time. I got a gazillion screens of application failure, finally I had to go to my Task Manager and shut down MC4 completely. Then I ran out of time.
This in itself doesn't bother me, as I'm sure I hit something wrong and I gotta learn the sequence of steps here with JS2. I should be back on it tonight and will see if I can get it working right. I'm very excited to have this now and I took a lot of time to read through the entire manual before I even tried to open it up. No doubt, I'm gonna love it.

I never did before, either! But this JS2 puppy looked pretty deep so I figured, "hey, I'll actually READ the thing first!" I shoulda known! HaHaHa

Actually, I am beginning to suspect that Herb and Rob have stock in JamStix!

Dang figured out again!!

Yeah, we all need a few miracles with this stuff! lol. I'm going to read my manuals some day. When I get tired of writing music. Until then I'll just limp along--or keep asking questions here. But seriously, I find it helps me more to DO it while I'm reading--or go to the manual when I get stuck. Then it makes more sense. But whatever works!

This thread has taken an ugly turn...
I refuse to consider reading a manual, it just isn't done. Its like asking for directions, or checking the recipe, or looking it up in the dictionary when you can't spell something, or...shudder at the thought...asking your wife.
O.K., that last one was just too scary. I'm throwing my manual away and deleting the help file as soon as I get home
Later
Albert

^ About time for a Beagle picpost of a girl in a monster truck.
^^Manuals?! We don' need no steenking manuals!!!

I think you will really love it. Just don't try to make it complicated. What i do is take the song and count the bars in it, then figure out in that bar count where the breaks and verse and chorus changes are. Then i chose a style, and add the number of bars in the bar window and pick a drummer and hit go. There is a little more to it than that but you get the picture. Bacally to start with just put in a rock jam settin in the thing and let it jam to the song then let it run and count the bars as it plays and make notes on a pad and then write in the changes.

ok just can't post a new topic ... well I did search and will again.

I did not buy the XL, but i already had the drum paks 1 & 2 from JS 1, so i did not really need it. I will say i very seldom use the drum kits from those paks, i do want to upgrade for the Bonzo pak most likely next month, as i just upgraded to 2008.5 on BiaB. I think the Regular version will keep you happy for a long time.

Is Jamstix 2 not a downloadable file? I got receipt of payment, but no link to download the program. If they send the disks, manual, snail mail, do you know how long it takes to get it? I'm in Canada, so that might add a day or two. Oh well, I always like to have a hard copy of the manual (yes, because I read them in my spare time and sometimes to fall asleep at night. You can get pretty wound up recording music!)

Thanks.

Nutty

I downloaded and installed the trial version of Jamstix 2, but when I created a new audio file in my Music Creator project and right-click on the FX, then Choose the Soft Synths sub-menu, all I have there is "Plug-in Layouts", "Cakewalk TTS-1", "DropZone" and "TriangleII". I don't see Jamstix Demo. Was I supposed to install Jamstix in the Cakewalk folder? Am I doing something else wrong?

Beagle, I have MC4, did just what you said, and now it's showing up. Thank you very much. It's not surprising to find such smart and kind people in Fort Worth! (Never mind I was a longtime resident of Weatherford and graduated from TCU....)