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[clare_bear]

Not sure if my problem is similar to Thoth's or not:

I'm trying to just program some simple rhythms into JS and I don't want the JS brain to do anything, just play back what I've put in (in the arrangement rhythms). However, when I go to play it back (with Mute Brain selected), no sound comes out - it's following the arrangement though. When I unselect Mute Brain there is sound, but of course it's improving my rhythm.

Cheers

Clare

[Ralph [RZ]]

'Mute Brain' is used when you are feeding Jamstix MIDI drum data on its MIDI input. Without that input, you will only get silence.

Try this instead:

- Use Manual Jam
- Clear any fills your arrangement might have at this time
- Move 'Fill Frequency' in jam tab to 0
- Move 'Accent sliders in the tom and snare panels of all rhythms that you are using to 0, same with 'Normal' slider of the cymbal panel

This should give you no 'fancy stuff' from the brain.
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Rayzoon Technologies LLC
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[clare_bear]

Ah, right!

Thanks very much, I'll give that a try (then I'll probably get JS to make it a bit more interesting anyway )

[Thoth]

Well, I think I've got Jamstix working decently with Tracktion (although I see there's a volume fix to download from a post above, which I'll do). But there is one small issue.

Whenever I start my recording, I have it count time for a couple of bars. It seems that Jamstix doesn't start in immediately after the eight-count. There's a bit of delay before it starts to play along with me, and it's not because I have a particular key assigned to start the jam. It hesistates for maybe no more than half a second, but it's enough to subtly throw things off.

Any advice?

Brian

[Ralph [RZ]]

There is a synch-up with the host that happens when JS starts. Look at the output tab and make sure 'Time Sig Changes' is NOT checked. If you still have the problem, leave a bar of silence at the beginning of your song for the synch-up.
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Rayzoon Technologies LLC
http://www.rayzoon.com

[clare_bear]

[Ralph [RZ]]

You also need to tell Jamstix where you want each sound to go. As a shortcut to get you going quickly: click the menu icon in the kit window and select 'Set Output Rotuing - 8 -...'
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Rayzoon Technologies LLC
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[clare_bear]

[Ralph [RZ]]

You can set the outputs to mono by unchecking 'Stereo Outputs' in the 'Options' of JS2.
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Rayzoon Technologies LLC
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[clare_bear]

[clare_bear]

Rather embarrassingly, I've found my mistake, and I was just being a bit thick!

I had set up all the outputs correctly both from Jamstix and in Tracktion, but, and it's a big BUT...I had the first track in Tracktion with an instance of the Jamstix wrapper, and left and right outputs set to the kick output - setting the left and right outputs to none seems to have fixed the problem!

Sorry for wasting your time, I feel very silly

Thanks for the help though.

[dhenriq1]

hey hows it goin, just bought jamstix2 the other day after liking what i heard with addictive drums... when i had the demo version it was working fine, but now all of a sudden when it asks me to switch jamstix to 8 outputs, i'll switch it to eight outputs just like i did with the demo version but now it won't stay.. i'll restart jamstix and still get the same error when i try to open addictive drums up... i'm really itchin to get this goin.. any ideas?

[Ralph [RZ]]

please do this:

- open your project and go to the JS2 mixer
- set audio outputs to 8
- close your host (just to be sure)
- reopen host and project and tell me what it says now for audio outputs
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Rayzoon Technologies LLC
http://www.rayzoon.com

[rockstar_not]

I want to know the best way to save the output of the Jamstix brain output, both the midi data as well audio output, using Tracktion.

The way I use Jamstix with Tracktion is to use the same aux send on all tracks that I want to feed the brain.

On a track with a matching aux return, I put AudioM8, then post AudioM8, I put a volume filter set to zero.

That way, I can control which tracks have dominance to the brain with simple automation of the send levels on each of those tracks.

Now - I'd like to store what Jamstix outputs, time aligned with the rest of my project's tracks.

I'd like to know how to do this both with MIDI output from Jamstix, as well as audio output from Jamstix.

Reasons:

1. If I could store off the MIDI output of Jamstix's brain, then I could easily audition different 'jams' for the same song.

2. If I could store off the audio output easily, and time aligned, then I could collaborate easier with other folks by supplying them drum tracks time aligned with tracks they supply to me. Right now, I have to use TapeIt to store the output 'live' to a .wav file, then try to trim the file so it's aligned to the time-line. Very tedious.

Anyone have some novel solutions or have experience with this?

[gear_head]