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Dumb_on_Drums
Jam Meister
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 Posted: Thu May 06, 2021 4:57 pm Post subject: How do I make the song wizard add consistant fills? |
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I have a song that is four bars per measure 4x. The song wizard inserts a fill on the fourth bar of each measure as I want it to. But each fill is different. I don't mind some variation but what I'm getting is much more variation than I would like.
The first two fills are small, the third is what I want for the fourth and the fourth is a very anemic snare fill.
I'd like a grand fill on the last bar of the last measure and smaller transitional fills at the end of the first 3 measures. Is there a way to make the wizard do this? |
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Azimuth
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| Posted: Thu May 06, 2021 5:15 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | Is there a way to make the wizard do this?
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No the Wizard can't do that itself. The best way I've found to control how I want my fills is to treat the main song parts and the fills as separate items. I get my song structured and assembled how I want it to be first. I then lock all parts and go through and unlock individual bars where I want to recompose the fills or accents.
I don't think you can lock all parts at once in Jamstix 3 like you can in JS 4. You had to lock each part separately I think. |
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Dumb_on_Drums
Jam Meister
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| Posted: Thu May 06, 2021 6:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Thanks. I was thinking I might have to do it that way. |
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Grem_Songs
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| Posted: Wed May 19, 2021 3:59 pm Post subject: |
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Another Idea is to take the bar you want with the fill in it and save to fill so you load it in the correct measure you want it.
What I will do is lock all the parts after I get the song together (as a_zimuth suggests) the way I want, then I start working on the fills. I will select the bar I want the fill on, hit recompse until I get a fill I am happy with, then lock it back down.
I also use EZD 2 to grab some fills that I want to use and place them where I want in a separate midi trk on the song. I have even used a controller (and editing with quantize in my DAW) to make the fills the way I want. (as a tip you can import that midi file into JS4 and make it into a style that you can use. Results vary but when it works, it works rather well)
Even have used midi fills from my Groove Monkee collection to help out.
What I have learned is that is no "one program fits all" approach when I comes to adding all type of fills to make my songs my own.
HTH |
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