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[dysfunction]

Hi, I'm just wondering- how would I go about making Jamstix play with a 6/8 feel in 4/4 time?

Also, when editing grooves inside Jamstix, how does one do triplets?

[El Taube]

[dysfunction]

Yes, that helps, but I might just waiting for midi drag & drop from host to Jamstix and set up my basic grooves externally, then let Jamstix take them to town. I usually have very specific ideas of the basic kick and snare groove for any given part of a song, it's programming accent and variation and unique fills that I have more trouble with, and JS excels at all that.

[El Taube]

[dysfunction]

Hmm,

Ok, here's what I want to be able to do at the moment. I want to import a MIDI groove with just kick and snare. Jamstix then plays with the timing and accent of those notes, but doesn't add or remove any or drastically change their position- again, just the timing and accent. Then Jamstix adds hihats, cymbals, and fills, for which I can tweak the settings. Is there any way to set it up like that?

[OldGeezer]

[ProfRhino]

[Ralph [RZ]]

Another way is to edit kick and snare in the bar editor as needed then save the bar, use the desired style, disable its kick and snare and use the 'Add' submenu in the brain menu to add a 'Groove Importer' to the brain. Set it o JS2 and load your saved groove. Now you get a combo of your hand-edited kick/snare groove and the rest of the selected style.

Here is a demo video of this method:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lr591h-M9MQ
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Rayzoon Technologies LLC
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[dysfunction]

Thanks guys, now it's doing exactly what I wanted it to. I'm using the Custom Metal style, erasing everything except kick and snare from my midi grooves, adding a groove importer, removing the kick and snare groove modifiers in Jamstix, and letting it set up the hihats and fills. I still have three questions though (edit: four):

1. When I import a midi groove with triplets in it, say 8th triplets, it seems they get quantized to 16th notes. 16th triplets get quantized to 32nd notes. And, as El Taube said, it is a pain to manually program triplets in the bar editor. The particular groove I'm trying to import is already quantized, I never programmed any timing variations in it, can I prevent Jamstix from quantizing this groove entirely on import, or even better import the groove and quantize it, but with 32nd-triplet resolution?

2. How do I make it do half-note hats in the custom metal style, or even any other style? Heavy hats are on 4ths.

3. Can I set it up to automatically play a cymbal at the beginning of a part, or do I have to program that cymbal crash in?

4. How do I change the power for a part without changing the power of the whole song?

[Ralph [RZ]]

[dysfunction]

Gah, it's kind of a pain to edit triplets in the bar arranger, though. I thought I heard some mention at some point of an ability to turn off quantizing of imported midis, is that possible?

[Ralph [RZ]]

Yes, it is in the 'Options' screen under 'Quantize MIDI Import'. It will still have to fit it into the JS2 timing model though and that's not working 100% yet for notes way outside the 16th grid.
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Rayzoon Technologies LLC
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