Message 9/18
Date: 07-Jan-06 @ 12:23 PM -
RE: midi question
it's normal for synths to have 'drum' presets... some synths such as supernova which are modelling synths, dont have samples of different drums, so they have for example a kikdrum sound as one preset, which covers the whole key-range, from bottom key right up to the top, and each key you hit simply plays the kik-sound higher or lower in pitch depending where you are on the keyboard scale.
synths which have samples as well as modelling sounds or only sample-based sounds, usualy have 'drum' presets which have one drumsound/sample on each individual key making a drum sound kit of many different samples/sounds
so, IF your Ion has a drumsound preset with many drumsounds, that's the preset you want of course.
To use it in that circumstance, set the ION into multi-timbrel mode - where you assign presets to midi channels so the Ion will play multiple sounds on multiple channels midi it is receiving from a sequencer.
The Ion has 64 different Multi-timbral Setups, allowing you to create up to 64 different setups with different sounds assigned to different channels....so you are ok there
BUT, as it's a modelling synth, i doubt it has a preset (Programme) with lots of drumsounds... so, really you're going to need to use a drum-software player and samples to do your drums and re-enforce those drums with other individual drumsounds from the ion
do you understand?.... it's probably hard to grasp if you aint used to this stuff, but if the ion has ONE drumsound per PROGRAMME (preset sound), AND has more than one drumsound (besides the usual modelling sounds these type of synths CAN do such as analog-kik/analog-snare/analog-toms, then you could only ever create a drumtrack with those sounds.... that means no cymbels, or other types of drumsounds which qould be very limiting.
So, the answer is to use a software drum player & samples inside Cubase and add to that any Ion sounds you want... however, to play s/w drumsounds from a s/w drum player VSTinstrument in realtime, sadly you'll need a soundcard with fast ASIO/WDM drivers....
as i said, checkout the ASIO4ALL drivers which might work with your onboard soundcard... if that workds, fine, if NOT, you'll have to buy an asio soundcard which as i mentioned start at around 50 quid (e-mu 0404, m-audio audiophile, esi Juli@, etc etc)
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