Rayzoon Technologies LLC

[weaverid]

Fantastic product - can't wait for the full product release. I have questions about the demo version - and the full up version:

1) Is the free jam supposed to work with the demo. I couldn't get this feature to work. To free-jam with a keyboard type sound - am I supposed to point it to another midi track? I didn't see a control for that.

2) I could only get the drum pattern sounds from demo-jamstix when I put sonar in recording mode. Ultimately (with the full up version)- will jamstik be dumping midi notes into the track it is assigned to?

3) Should I only hear the jamstix patterns when I am recording - which appears to be the case with the demo? How do I preview patterns without recording?

4)Once midi notes are captured - I assume the notes will play thru jamstix. I am still confused on the basic work flow of how this will function!

5) I presume I can specify which measure I want a drum fill to occur?

6) Is jamstix a vsti and/or a dxi? When I installed it for Sonar - I ran the adapter and it turned up within Sonar as a dxi. I have other plug-ins that manifest themselves as a vsti AND a dxi. In a previous post on this forum was a comment saying thay jamstix was only a vsti.

7) After playing with jamstix demo for a 1/2hour - it seemed to freeze - and I had to re-start Sonar. It was looking pretty good until then! Would you care to comment on how robust the full-up jamstix will be?

What is the least expensive way to map to other drum kit sounds? I don't have DFH or other dedicated "drum" samples/modules. The drum kit that comes with jamstix sounds pretty good - but if I want to try some other kits - what are the options? (without spending too much moola). I realize I could manually post-edit the midi file to point to another drum sound/kit (I have sampletank). I just like the convenience of the jamstix.

Thanks
IW

[Ralph [RZ]]

Hi Weaverid,
thanks for the praise!

[weaverid]

Thanks for the rapid reponse - and the help.

[Ralph [RZ]]

[weaverid]

I still can't get "free jam" to work.

The html manual says to hit the input echo button. Well - want do I need? - input echo "on" .... or "auto thru"?? I tried all combinations of the input echo button - but no drums.

Then the manual says hit "play" and interaction should occur. I get nothing. As a matter of fact when hitting "play" - absolutely nothing happens since there is nothing recorded in any track ... so there is nothing to play back. If I hit "record" - Sonar starts recording my keyboard and nothing comes out of Jamstix. The video says to hit "start" key - but in reality it hits the "record" key.

When I watch the video - it doesn't really explain how to set up jamstix so it knows you are playing a keyboard. Oddly it just hits the record button and the drums start kicking in. I notice that somehow the keyboard and jamstix just happen to all be selected in the track window. I try the same thing but it doesn't help.

Do I need some fancy vst adapter?

IW

[weaverid]

I think I kinda figured out my problem: The "jam start/stop" mechanism is beyond my understanding! In the end I blanked out the box beside the keyboard icon (beside the jam start/stop thing). I don't know what A2 means as opposed to A-2. I have never seen a negative sign used to represent a midi key - I assume that is what it means. It doesn't help that the help box flickers badly(when you place your mouse pointer over the box/function). You can hardly read the help box.

If I tried to use the jam start/stop feature ... I just hit every key on my keyboard until the drums started. So for example I never figured out what key A2 was supposed to be. Plus - the keyboard button I couldn't figure out! Sorry!

Anyway - I finally had the free jam functioning - although I couldn't get the patterns used in the video. Does the full up version have more pattern selections? The concept is great - but I still haven't noticed a pleasing "swing" type of control.

Anyway - it is alot of fun to play with.

IW

[Ralph [RZ]]

[Ralph [RZ]]