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I am still playing around with the demo in Reaper. I think I am getting my head around creating rhythms in the rhythm tab, but I still have a few questions.

I see now that in the kick and the snare controls, unlike say the FL Studio step sequencer where you have a row of boxes that represent "1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and," you have a row for the 1-2-3-4 (quarters) and a row for the "ands" (eighths). I guess this makes sense when you are thinking in terms of probabilities, but it is a little counter-intuitive at first. One thing that was really confusing me was that when I did a free jam (audio) my guitar wasn't driving the veleocity slider enough, so there were no snare hits. When I soloed the snare channel there was no sound. When I locked the velocity and moved the slider up, I got some side sticks, but I also got what sounded more like a big booming high tom than a snare. There was nothing lighting up in the tom control area, and the sound was on the 2 and the 4, so I guess it was supposed to be a snare. Is this supposed to happen? An actual snare sounds mostly on fills.

(edit: OK, I found the snare-tom slider in the style section of the jam tab. That mystery is solved!)

I keep looking for a way to preview the rhythm in the rhythm tab. It seems like the only way to preview is to go to the arrangement window and right click on a measure, click on the note icon. Am I missing the way to preview on the rhythm tab? And if you double-click on a bar in the arrangement, it brings up the rhythm tab, but if you change the rhythm there, it seems to change it for all of the arrangement, not just that bar.

Jamstix is already making my previous drum parts sound lame, but the UI does have a learning curve. I am still trying to control it. And somehow it is very stingy with the snare!

Thanks,

John

[Ralph [RZ]]

[Stringer]

Ralph,

Thanks, that is very helpful information. I decided to buy the Jamboree pack, and I am downloading it now. I think Jamstix will significantly improve my tracks!

John

[scottieboy]

I cant get the preview fills thing to work. i'm pushing the musical note on the bottom right of the dialog box.

[Ralph [RZ]]

[scottieboy]

COOL! Thanks! But now i'm noticing that no Toms are playing with some of the fills and intros that are clearly labeled having toms......

[Ralph [RZ]]

Open the fill options (icon next to the fill frequency slider in the jam tab) and make sure nothing is checked there.
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Rayzoon Technologies LLC
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[scottieboy]

nothing is checked. even while the rhythm is playing and i'm in the rhythm tab, the "toms" section doesnt do anything. I click all the buttons and theres no tom sounds. but the other sections seem to be working fine, snare, kick, etc....

[Ralph [RZ]]

Look in the mapping tab, pull up the 'Tom' sounds and see that there are proper samples assigned in the 'sample' list. Use the 'Audit' button to audit the tom sounds.
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Ralph Zeuner
Rayzoon Technologies LLC
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[scottieboy]

ok, i pulled up Tom 1, and the 8" tom stage custom pops up in the sample pulldown. i hit audit, but no sound! i go to Tom 2, the 10" customs pops up in the sample pulldown, i hit audit, no sound! i change the sound to splash, hit audit, i hear splash.....i change the sound to snare, hit audit, i hear snare....go back to tom, hit audit, no sounds.

[Ralph [RZ]]

Please send me the file rzdlog.txt from the Jamstix folder to support[at]rayzoon.com so I can figure this out. Please use reference 'Scottieboy' so I know what the mail is about.
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Rayzoon Technologies LLC
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[Stringer]

Ralph,

This sounds like the weird problems I have been having with Reaper too, that I posted about in another thread. I have a feeling that it is a Reaper problem. I tried to try a midi jam in FL Studio, but I couldn't figure out how to route the midi from the Piano track to the track with Jamstix. Just working from the tempo, however, jamstix created an arrangement with a fill every four bars, as it was set to do. When I went back to Reaper, it was set to create a fill every 8 bars. It created the first one at bar 68, and then created one every 8 bars after that. However, not all of them played correctly. One seemed to be silent, one sounded like the regular rhythm, and one made a buzz like it was hanging.

Jamstix is clearly reacting to the midi input. It reacts to the chords, so the routing seems to be ok.

I'll ask over in the Reaper forum if people are doing ok with midi jam in Jamstix.

thanks,

John

[Stringer]

Well, it still doesn't create fills until late in the arrangement, but after it starts, it does them according to whatever the fill slider is set to. The other things seem to work fine, and it is creating some nice parts. I am pretty happy with Jamstix.

John

[Ralph [RZ]]

Sounds like the start bar in the arranger is set too high. Jamstix will not create fills until it is past that start bar (left bottom corner of arranger). Double-click that number to reset it to zero and see if it fixes the problem.
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Ralph Zeuner
Rayzoon Technologies LLC
http://www.rayzoon.com

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