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[TallPaul]

Hey Ralph,
You've taught me to add a bar of silence at the beginning of the song (ie, mute one bar) to let things "sync up." I have a suggestion for a button right under the Mute button... how about a "Tic" button that would put a bars worth of "Tic's" in so they could be used for alignment purposes when sending tracks off to someone? Thanks,
Paul

[Ralph [RZ]]

Not a bad idea, duly noted! Thanks, Paul!
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[paspallum]

Ralph
'reorder/delete rhythms in the arranger '

That would be VERY cool.... increasing workflow and making life easier and therefore more musical

Paspallum

[spadrian]

Hey there is something i would like to see, most likely for inclusion in JS2 i guess. Many drummers these days, myself included are using much smaller kits, usually just 1 rack tom and 1 floor tom, plus the usual HH, snare, ride, crash. I would say these days that i actually prefer the simplicity of this setup and the sounds that it produces. The kit and all the fills in JS at the moment use the full compliment of 5 toms and lotsa cymbals. It would be nice to have the ability to reduce the actual kit, and have JS accomodate fills and accents to work in a reduced kit. The reduced kit would simplify a lot of the fills i'd say and generally change the sound of a lot of them.

perhaps you could have a model kit picture comprised of clickable items, with which you could enable or disable specific pieces of the kit, essentially building the kit that JS will be using. so if you don't want it using the china for example rather than turning the sample volume down, you could actually remove it from the kit, at which point JS will recognise this and substitute it for a crash/splash maybe

That would be cool.

[Doc]

[Ralph [RZ]]

Doc is right on the money. You can set sounds to 'No Sound'.
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[spadrian]

I noticed you mentioned free jam mode. i tend to go the arranger route myself, in which case if you set a fill in the arranger tab, you get abrupt silences at the points where the silenced drum would normally be played. Is there any way to get JS to recognise that there is no sound allocated and substitute this for a drum that is present in arranger mode?

Yes i know, its kinda like asking if jamstix can tell me the air speed velocity of a european swallow, but i've been uberly impressed so far...!

[Ralph [RZ]]

[cleartrueblue]

However...

You have to know these things when you're a king, you know.

[spadrian]

heh, once again the solution is so simple i feel like a idiot for not having figured it out myself...! Again, thank you ralph for exposing my incapacity!

[HornForHire]

Hi Ralph,

I have another suggestion for an enhancement that would by quite useful (to me, at least... ).

I don't know if this was mentioned before, but I'd like to have the possibility to draw some sort of 'velocity curve' in the arranger window, so I'll have more influence over the overall dynamics during the course of the song.

I'm working on a Jazz song at the moment and I need more dynamics control than on the average pop/rock song.

Thanks,

Wim
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[Ralph [RZ]]

You can do this by drawing an automation envelope curve in the host for the Jamstix 'Velocity' parameter. I think you are using Cubase, which supports this function. Let me know if you need help.
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[HornForHire]

Yes, you're right. I didn't think of that that possibility...
I'll give it a try!

Thanks,

Wim
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[jwatt]

Hi Ralph!

This may have been mentioned before, but I was wondering if you might consider increasing the flexibility of the snare panel on the Rhythm page in two ways.

First, add the ability to specify a specific type of snare hit per 'square', like sidestick, flam, rimshot, buzz, etc. This would allow me to select a sidestick on '2' and a snare hit on '4', for example, or to create complex latin rhythms with the right hand playing regular snare hits and the left hand doing sidesticks together in 16th-note syncopation.

Second, the ability to access the middle 16th-note triplet in 16th shuffle mode would be great for those Toto "Rosanna"-type grooves -- and would be a great addition to the kick panel as well, for that matter -- especially since the ghost stroke feature remains straight-16ths in 16th shuffle mode.

I imagine this being implemented in a similar fashion to the toms panel (a very elegant solution), ie. using different coloured squares for different hits and/or rhythmic variations.

Thanks for your time, and for one of the greatest virtual instruments ever!

Jeff

[Ralph [RZ]]