SNARE ROLL on MIDI help!! For MIDI NEWBIE!

[kingrichards]

Hello everyone,

Someone recommended me to repost here.

I am using strike with the alesis control pads and it work great!! however I can't seem to record a snare roll in MIDI?I am new to MIDI and I like this method a lot but I am stump my snare roll is not rolling at all. Any guidance will be much appreciative.

Btw i have the Alesis UsB Midi controller and strike using protools LE 8.0

Thanks in advance forum members!!

[Styles Bitchly]

You may have to physically draw the notes in using the pencil tool, and then change the velocity (volume of each hit) manually by increasing or decreasing on each hit. Depending on what type of roll you're trying to reproduce, it may sound best to have the higher velocity hits on the downbeat of each measure, that's assuming you're doing a 4/4 standard downbeat. If not, just try and reproduce it in your head, and pay attention to where the accents are - those are the notes that will be slightly ahead/behind the beat, and greater in velocity.

[flommer]

Watch the demo video on this page:

http://www.centipeak.com/protrig/

About half way in you will see the realtime drumming getting turned into MIDI notes.. Maybe that will give you an idea of what the midi might "look" like..

[albee1952]

If your controller can do it, program 2 trigger pads to snare(maybe even 2 different snare notes). Doing fills on a single trigger pad is impossible. I programmed a page of my M-Audio trigger Finger with double pads for snare and each tom and it makes for way better fills. Of course, a buzz-roll is another beast entirely........