vst drum machine
Dear all - comments and ideas please.
A local shop is offering the now discontinued LM-4 MK II at a reduced price, CHF 170 or about USD 120. Which is low for Switzerland, it was 230. I am an old-fashioned sort who grew up with drum machines, so I like hitting pads to make patterns and stringing patterns into a song, rather than tapping on a piano keyboard or making marks with a mouse on a piano roll display. Is that what the LM-4 does or is it only a sample player?
I can also get a new Alesis SR16, a good old-fashioned proper drum machine, for CHF 330.
Then again I read good things here about Jamstix.
Anyone got experience with the LM-4? Thanks for your thorts.
Cheers
TB
Is the LM-4 a VST? Because I think I’ve seen a Steinberg plug for free that is a drum vst. You can ie… play on a Roland SPD-8 your drum beats, and it will output midi data to your computer. Then put the LM-4 on that track of midi data and you’ve got some nice sounding drums.
Hi Dyers. Yup, LM-4 Mk II is a vst instrument. And you’re right, there’s a thing called LM-7 included free with Cubase LE, it’s a drum sample player so I guess that’s also what LM-4 does. It looks like there are no pattern and song creation tools in either of them, so either I’ll have to get used to working with a keyboard and the piano roll, or I buy myself a drum machine with midi out, or jamstix, or something.
Cheers
TB
If you can play simple beats with drum sticks, and know how to do basic midi editing such as quantizing then I’d say find yourself a cheap Roland drum pad with pressure sensitivity. Then put a VSTi on it and you got some realistic drums.
Dyers is 10000% right.
Good thinkng chaps, I’ll find some cheap pads give it a try.
Cheers
TB