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please excuse me if I am doing this wrong, I have never used a forum of any kind before but I reallty need some help. I have just installed Sonar 7 on my laptop and I am searching for pre-recorded drum tracks that I can use to put my vocals and music over the top of. I dont even know if there are any pre-recorded drums or if I have to buy them, and if so how do I do this. I also have Reason installed which will work with Sonar 7 but I dont know if that will help. I am a complete novice so any advice re drums would be most appreciated, thanks so much
 
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You can compose your own MIDI drum tracks and use soft synths to produce the audio for those tracks. You can also use professional MIDI loops or audio loops. Groove Monkee sells professional MIDI loops. For audio loops, Drums On Demand and Smart Loops are good brands. Check out this page for discounts and links to those sites...
http://www.digifreq.com/digifreq/deals.asp

I don't remember what comes included with SONAR 7, but it should have included a collection of MIDI loops and some audio loops as well. You might want to look through those first.

Scott

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thanks Scott, do you know roughly where I can locate the included mide or audio loops? thanks x

They used to include something called Beatlescape, or Beatenscape, or NeedinScope, or something like that (It was actually Beatscape), which had a bunch of pre-recorded rhythms, and a bunch of pre-recorded patterns for other instruments as well.

I just checked on the X2 specifications, and they no longer list it, although it was included in X1 - per the site.

Bad news there for you is that it was introduced in Sonar 8.0, so I do not believe it is available for you with your 7 installation.

But, a lot of us grow our own.

For patterns, I just set up my drum tracks and fire up the Step Sequencer, and it will repeatedly loop through however many beats you told it you were going to use, and it has little boxes that correspond to notes (drums), so you can build up a nice beat in layers of adding a few drum strikes by clicking on some of the boxes, like kick drum on 1 and 3, and snare on 2 and 4, and 5, if you like watching people dancing to odd-meters like I do.

Anyways, you can build up nice patterns a drum strike at a time - you can get rid of one you don't like by right-clicking in the little box.

Then you can have a groove clip and it will be able to be plugged in, and will follow tempo changes, so you can use it in different tunes without having to recreate it.

Would THAT work for you?

Bob Bone