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[Mark Blair]

Section 11.7 (Using Saved Grooves With The ‘Import’ Style) on page 36 of the JS2 manual states: "Jamstix 2 allows you to take any GM-compatible MIDI pattern file that you have stored on your hard drive and have them processed by the drummer model. This means you can take that cool but sterile groove you downloaded from the Internet and have it played back by your favorite Jamstix 2 drummer with accents, fills, groove feel, power variations and so forth!"

This is fabulous feature, and is EXACTLY what I'd like to do. I'd like to finish off a number of songs that just have "sterile" "place-holder" drums at this time, and I'd like to use the current static grooves to "seed" JS2's "live" performance.

But I have several questions:

1) Anybody developed any "Best Practices" to do this?

2) Is there an ideal size for the midi file (should it be one bar long)?

3) I've copied a 2-bar section of a Sonar 6 midi track (currently driving a soft synth on an audio track to produce drum sounds) to my Windows XP desktop and used that with the 'Import' style in JS2, but it almost seems as if it's being inappropriately "quantized" into something different. Anybody else run into this yet? Sonar is set to 4/4 time, but the midi drum file uses highhat triplets (three highhat hits per quarter-note beat), and they're what seems to be mis-quantized. Is there a way to overcome this?

4) Regarding the question of the inputted midi file being quantized, is there any way to get more resolution than to just a 1/16th note (or is that even a current limitation)?

Finally, I just need to add to the massive amount of kudos for JS2 -- this has got to be one of the most under-the-radar DAW software products out there. Amazing! Almost everybody needs it, but so few realize it (yet)...

[Ralph [RZ]]

Could you send me the MID file as well as the source Sonar file so we can check the discrepancies out here? Also, what drummer model were you using?
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Ralph Zeuner
Rayzoon Technologies LLC
http://www.rayzoon.com

[Mark Blair]

Ralph - I think the source Sonar file might end up being a bit too large to attach to an e-mail -- do you have an ftp server or some other recommended way to get the files to you?

[Ralph [RZ]]

I actually don't need the Sonar project file but just the MID file you generated from it.
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Ralph Zeuner
Rayzoon Technologies LLC
http://www.rayzoon.com

[Mark Blair]

I just e-mailed the midi file to you, plus a rough-sketch .wma file to show the context...

[Ralph [RZ]]

I'll check this out...
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Ralph Zeuner
Rayzoon Technologies LLC
http://www.rayzoon.com