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wiz · Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 6:03 pm Post subject: The best approach..?

Okay, it sure is a great piece of kit...jamstix...

Now, here is my first question...

what would be the best approach for me , in using it.

I am mainly a guitar player...and at the moment, dont have midi guitar, so I am restricted to the Audio jam...which is cool.

Okay, say I have a chord progression....

I understand that I can put jamstix in FREE JAM and set up the routing , and play the guitar, and jamstix will create patterns and an arrangement for me...I have done that, and i must say its kinda spooky that it follows your playing dynamics.....

I also understand that in KEYWORD JAM i can pick a bunch of preset patterns and let Jamstix create an arrangement with them....

But....

Okay, back to the scenario...

I put jamstix in FREEJAM, and start my sequencer (cubase SX) and then start Jamstix, and jam away....say playing a bunch of verses, chorus's, bridges...then when I think there are the patterns there...for me to assemble an arrangement I want...

whats the best way to proceed...?

Should I save all the rythms I want? then do a manual arrangemet...?

How are people taking the Jam stage, to the overdubbing other instruments stage...

Will Jamstix, if I leave the control settings the same, always play back, the same....what I am getting at...say after I have constructed my arrangement for my song...I dont want the kick pattern varying etc etc...should I just save it as a midi file? etc

I am not putting this very well...I am just trying to sort out a good workflow....

any help appreciated..

Cheers

Wiz
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Ralph [RZ] · Site Admin Joined: 02 Jan 2008 Posts: 13332

wiz · Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 10:53 pm Post subject:

Hi Ralph

thanks for the quick response..

Ahhhh I see ....record the initial instrument in my case, guitar, and keep that track...cool idea.

Okay...

So lets say I jam for 100 bars, and want to keep bars 16- 28 as my verse and bars 58-70 as my chorus, and bars 80-96 as my outro...

how would i go about doing that...

I want to take those bars, and the drums jamstix created and then make up this song...

verse
chorus
verse2
chorus
chorus
solo over verse then chorus
verse3
chorus
chorus
outro
outro

as this is the kind of thing I would typically like to do...

jam up parts, and then re arrange them whilst having the flexibility of jamstix...

cheers

Wiz
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Ralph [RZ] · Site Admin Joined: 02 Jan 2008 Posts: 13332

wiz · Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 6:16 pm Post subject:

thanks mate!!

cool stuff

cheers

Wiz
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