When I am producing and just sequencing the drums, it does not feel very natural, its hard to feel the creative flow of music when I am just dropping stuff in the sequencer.

I really want to make some quality percussion (specifically bongos).

Do any of the producers here feel it is easier to feel the flow and be creative with the actual instrument (Like playing on my keyboard)? Or even a beatpad loaded up with samples? Ive been considering getting an actual bongo without a recording setup so I can play around and form ideas for percussion, letting the creative process flow instead of trying to visualize/guessing which sample where would sound good.

Do any of you do anything like this? Thanks!

If you are going to get an actual bongo, you'd might as well record it. I don't see the point of figuring out the groove on a bongo, and then trying to translate it to a beatpad.

Playing a live bongo will net you all the subtle nuances from playing the instrument that wouldn't be captured in a beatpad (or be extremely annoying to emulate)

Just pick up a half decent dynamic microphone and it should sound good. The beauty of it is you can just hit the record button and just "jam" with your track until you get a nice recording that you can cut and manipulate or loop.

Its just easier with the real interments

I only have a few around myself such as a tabla, and I use them more often than I do their software counterparts. Get a shaker too, cheap and a nice easy way to add to your capabilities.

Its also way more fun as J.L hinted when your jamming with em and not writing out all sorts of midi information or what have you.

I keep a bunch of hand percussion instruments around the studio as well and record them on occasion. But, I've actually been thinking about getting a Roland Handsonic for a while now if I can ever find a good deal on a used one. I play around with it whenever I'm in Guitar Center and it would be a very cool way to trigger my own percussion samples (e.g., through MIDI/Battery 3). The DrumKat and Zendrum controllers (no built-in sounds) are very cool as well, but both are pretty expensive.

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I've done this in the past, it is definitely a bit of fun breaking out of the sequencer and tapping out some live rythms

I only had a single djembe at my disposal tho, (and a mic obviously). It didn't end up sounding perfectly in tune with my track, but with some reverb and delay it added some movement to the intro atleast.

Worth a try if it interests you anyway..

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Originally posted by cryophonik I keep a bunch of hand percussion instruments around the studio as well and record them on occasion. But, I've actually been thinking about getting a Roland Handsonic for a while now if I can ever find a good deal on a used one. I play around with it whenever I'm in Guitar Center and it would be a very cool way to trigger my own percussion samples (e.g., through MIDI/Battery 3). The DrumKat and Zendrum controllers (no built-in sounds) are very cool as well, but both are pretty expensive.

Be careful with the HPD15 used - i sold a ton of them when I work in audio retail and while I think they're great, if you're a heavy drummer, you'll kill in no time.

I supplied three of them, in three days to The Killers and he just kept going through one per gig while on tour in the UK. In the end we just hooked him up with roland so they could keep supplying him with fresh ones for each gig free of charge. He loved them and nothing else did what it did in the same format so he just kept with them, even though he'd destory them.

It is pretty easy to tell if it's been caned just by looking at it for wear marks, let alone if the pads a even slightly unresponsive.

i wanna use my hands more

get a real fucking bongo wtf fag

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Originally posted by Evolve140 i wanna use my hands more

thats what she said

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Originally posted by UXC Its just easier with the real interments

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