Recommend me a program for laying-out quick drum "grid" loops...

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Posted by JTZ on Jul-19-2004 02:55:

Recommend me a program for laying-out quick drum "grid" loops...

I use Cubase/Protools in the studio and cubase on my laptop (with firewire hardware). This is all I need to laydown some tracks, but sometimes I like to work on my laptop WITHOUT all the external audio interface and external harddrive connected to my laptop.

Cubase dosent run very well without ASIO support, so I wonder what all of you are using for grid-style drum pattern software?

It dosent need to be a fancy studio suite or anything, matter of fact, simple would be better in this situation...

blessings...

Posted by alanzo on Jul-19-2004 05:54:

I use FL Studio for percussion and rewire it to Cubase.. I'm not sure if it's a "grid" but those 1/16th pads work GREAT for percussion.. and FLs included FX work great for percussion..

Posted by moth on Jul-19-2004 06:55:

NI Battery is really awesome. Check her out on NI's site.

Posted by hooj1 on Jul-19-2004 06:59:

yea battery kicks ass, so does dr008.

Posted by TJM on Jul-19-2004 23:02:

Battery

Posted by JTZ on Jul-20-2004 01:11:

Does battery come with a grid and playback mode? The last time I checked it was just a drum/sample machine that takes incoming MIDI.

Posted by moth on Jul-20-2004 01:47:

Well no, but it works great with FLStudio.

Posted by JTZ on Jul-20-2004 04:48:

ok, ill check flstudio out... thanks

Posted by thecYrus on Jul-20-2004 05:25:

check ETS from SonicBytes out.. i think it's what you are looking for..

Posted by hey cheggy on Jul-20-2004 06:55:

Either FL or Reason are probably the better two options. Redrm works pretty well for percussion in Reason, although reason might be a bit pricey if you just want something to play with the percs.

Battery and all the other VST instruments won't be of any help to you because they require a host to run properly. If you want something simple with its own sequencer and export function, go with Fruity Loops. You can always hook fruity up as a VSTi in Cubase later on if you want to keep everything in midi.