Looking for a drummer

Okay, I give. Still new to this forum and just upgraded from MC5 to Sonar x-2 studio. Long story short, I'm new to this layout and can't find how to bring up Studio Instruments Drummer, or whatever replaces it in this app, so I can listen to and choose whichever drummer I want for this session. If anybody out here can help a newbie, it would be greatly appreciated and I will be sure and acknowledge the "little people" that helped me along the way :) That was tongue in cheek, appreciate any help you can give me. Thanks

Ooops...you won't have Session Drummer...that comes with X2 Producer...but you should have SI Drummer.

I guess I'm not catching on to this very well. MC5's drummer kit, whatever it's called could be pulled up and I could "click" on different drum patterns and grooves, load that on a track and I've got a drum track. I'm not a synth man and I'm just looking for a "groove" to throw some guitar at. I'll go online tomorrow and hit those tutorials you pointed me at and see if I can stumble into it. Thanks for the help, it's appreciated

Maybe Sonar X-2 Studio doesn't come with drum loops. What I'm gleaming from what you guys are telling me is that I need to use MIDI to lay down drum tracks, which would be great if I had and/or knew how to use a MIDI interface, but I don't. No loops? and no MIDI knowledge....bummer

Wow! you guys are great! If I could figure out how to use the "quote" thingy, I'd have three quotes in this post. I'm sorry if I misled anyone, I couldn't remember the term "drum loops" (early onset alz I guess, or maybe not that early heehee). But loops is what I've been looking, for until now anyway. Daveny5: I can't find the loops that I thought would've come with this app. I used the online upgrade, but maybe I need to re-install the program. Scook: I appreciate and apologize for my misinfo ( refer to the early "alz" noted above). I haven't checked out your link yet but tell me....how would you lead a person in the direction of MIDI if he was broke and can barely fumble his way around a piano keyboard (takes me about 30 mins to find middle C)? Robert_E_Bone: That step sequencing sounds really interesting! Where can I find more info on implementing a pc keyboard? Sounds like a great way especially to get the fills and intros. I appreciate everyone of you guys trying to lead a newbie down the path of righteous music. Thank you for your time and patience, all of you that have posted

Sorry for this but I keyed on the drum pad thing and then went back to read the whole post. I have not found any drum loops in Studio yet. I think they're there, I'm just not looking in the right place. But when you say "keyboard", I'm guessing you're talking about the keyboard on my pc that enters alpha/numeric characters...right? Sorry for my lack of knowledge, sure hope there aren't any "dumb questions" posted here :)

I am a piano player.  I use my computer keyboard and mouse in the Step Sequencer to create drum clips.  One of my midi controller keyboards also has drum pads, but I find no trouble at all just clicking on the little boxes in the Step Sequencer to specify drum/cymbal hits.  To undo an errant click on one of the boxes just right-click on the desired box and it erases the box.

By hitting the play button up at the top, it will loop through the beats for that clip, and you can keep adding/undoing drum/cymbal hits with your mouse until you are happy with that particular clip.

Cakewalk does NOT intend to have you use a drum map for any clips created with the Step Sequencer, and editing problems will occur if you do attempt it.

That means then that you will end up learning the note names and numbers that correspond to the various drums and cymbals and such for the given drum synth you are pointing to for the midi output for the track.  That does not take long to master.

Also, you can preview a drum/cymbal sound by clicking on the left side of the Step Sequencer, in the place where the note names are.  That way you can make sure you are triggering the right drum strikes when you are going to enter say kick drum.  Clicking on the note name at the left will let you hear the drum sound for that row, without actually creating an entry into the matrix.

Bob Bone

i am not a midi guy either, i wud recommend the free software "hydrogen", this is a free drum machine you can easily create drum beats with. and then export them as wav-files to an audio track within sonar!

I posted a thread about my midi keyboard not working unless I unplugged it and then plugged it back in a while back, and watching your video has just help me solve it.

Just got home from work and went straight to Studio, reviewed step sequencer in the help section. Found it and love it. In MC5 I was loading a pre-existing loop from studio instruments (still haven't found those) then use piano roll to edit fills, intros, and outs. This is way faster because I usually already know how I want the drum pattern. Is that still going to be the way to go edit fills and such? Or is there a better faster way to do it using the step sequencer? I was thinking load the pattern to the track and then go back edit the other stuff. Thanks again....you may or may not know how awesome this forum is to a noob like me Better go kiss the girlfriend now and tell her Hi!