Missing samples in SI and custom patterns

Hi,
 
Q1
In SI Drums the currebt kit is set to default. If I try and select a different kit from the many provided, It comes back with an error stating that it can't find the sample for each drums/cymbal. This happens for just about every kit that I try. I have uninstalled and re-installed already.
 
Any ideas?
 
Q2
Am I able to create my own patterns in SI using the interface or a MIDI keyboard? I don't mean combining the provided loops but rather creating a custom pattern?
 
Thanks
 
Billy
 
 

Hi Hacker,
 
Q1 I am using the fastrack but still the same issue. It looks more like the samples jsut aren't installed rather than a playback issue.
 
Q2 - Could you please extrapolate so I don't lay awake at night wondering how??
 
Thanks
 
Billy

BillyGareth


Hi,
 
Q1
In SI Drums the currebt kit is set to default. If I try and select a different kit from the many provided, It comes back with an error stating that it can't find the sample for each drums/cymbal. This happens for just about every kit that I try. I have uninstalled and re-installed already.
 
Any ideas?
 
Q2
Am I able to create my own patterns in SI using the interface or a MIDI keyboard? I don't mean combining the provided loops but rather creating a custom pattern?
 
Thanks
 
Billy
 
 

1) if you can load the default kit but cannot load the other kits, then that's a pretty odd problem.  let me just clarify that you know what you're doing, OK?    when you say you are trying to load a new kit, but it can't find them, are you trying to load a kit from the pull down menu at the top left of the SI Drums GUI?  the pull down list says "Agressive Kit, then Beat Pusher, Big Room Kit, CW Special, etc..?  and if you click on one of them then you get an error message stating that it can't find it?
 
if that's the case, just to the left of the pull down for the kits, there's a button that says PRG> click on that and then click on LOAD PROGRAM it will open the default location for loading those same kits in a windows explorer window.  The path should be:  c:\documents and settings\all users\application data\cakewalk\studio instruments\SI Drum Kit\Programs
 
and all of those kit sets with those names in the pull down menu with an extension of .prog should be listed in that folder.  is that what you see?  what happens if you open one of the kits from there?
 
2) while herb has covered how you can create your own patters from a MIDI keyboard, you also asked if you could create your own patterns from the SI interface and the answer to that is NO, you cannot.  you can audition the sounds using the mouse, but you cannot create patterns by recording what you click on.  you can drag and drop MIDI patterns they have from the list onto the track (and you can also audition those using the play button and selecting them in each of the 4 slots) and then you can EDIT those using the Piano Roll View and a mouse, but you cannot record what you click on in the GUI. 
 
you can also, however create your own patterns IN the PRV from scratch if you want.

ok.  then the problem is going to be in the installation of the SI drums.  are you running win7?  which flavor?  32 or 64bit?  it would be helpful to put that kind of information in your signature.

I don't think you will be able to use the samples from SI drums in jamstix.  typically companies don't like for you to use someone else's samples in their engine. 

what you CAN do with jamstix, however, is export a MIDI track into MC then use that MIDI track to trigger SI Drums (once you get it working).

I didn't know that. but SI Drums is not on that list...