Question about Boom...

[Darkostica]

After making your beat, how do you actually get it into a track?

[spkguitar]

I answered this in another thread just recently.

From Chapter 4 of the Creative Collections guide (installed as a PDF during Pro Tools install, and also available free from the Digidesign webpage), the chapter all about Boom, page 22:

Playing Patterns using MIDI

Much like you can switch between patterns by
clicking on various Event switches, you can play
and switch between patterns using MIDI data.

This lets you create interactive changes in your
beat over time, and record the MIDI data so that
the same sequence can be played back and ed-
ited once it’s been recorded.

To play patterns using a MIDI controller

1 Record-enable the Instrument track on which
Boom is inserted.

2 Use the octave switches on your MIDI control-
ler to make sure you have access to MIDI notes
C3–C4. You may need to play a number of notes
to find the right range, but once you have, you’ll
notice that Boom plays a pattern each time you
play a note.

3 If you press and hold a note, the correspond-
ing pattern plays until you release the note.

4 If you play legato within that range while
holding down the first note, Boom switches pat-
terns, starting the new pattern at the same
rhythmic step where the previous pattern left
off.

This MIDI data can be recorded and edited using
the MIDI sequencer in Pro Tools, letting you cre-
ate complex sequences of drum patterns.
If you do not have a MIDI controller, you can
use the Pencil tool in Pro Tools to create a se-
quence of MIDI notes to trigger patterns over
time.

[Darkostica]

Originally Posted by spkguitar

I answered this in another thread just recently.

From Chapter 4 of the Creative Collections guide (installed as a PDF during Pro Tools install, and also available free from the Digidesign webpage), the chapter all about Boom, page 22:

Cool, thank you!

[maccattack]

Is this the only way to do it?

I dont have a midi controller as such.

I used the step edit in BOOM to make the beat. Isnt there away to extract that pattern as midi and place into into your instrument track??

I also use EZ Drummer. You can just drag the beats out and drop them into your instrument track as midi. Cant you do something similar with BOOM?

[pianosound]

If you do not have a MIDI controller, you can
use the Pencil tool in Pro Tools to create a se-
quence of MIDI notes to trigger patterns over
time.

As spk has said,,, this is almost as easy as holding a note down on a midi controller,,, just use your mouse to input notes on the key/keys you need, play these notes while recording the patterns,,, real simple!!!

Mike

[spkguitar]

Originally Posted by pianosound

As spk has said,,,

And I didn't say it; I copied it directly from the users guide.


Reading is fundamental...

[chrisdee]

+1 to the reading part. But it would not hurt people learning ProTools if there was even more screenshots in the reference guide.

I find the best way to learn is to have simple step by step instructions with screenshots of the steps.

[maccattack]

yeah i read it. but what im asking is: can you program your beat on boom. then extract the midi and import it into pro tools?

[filosofem]

No, but you can bus record and sample replace if you need too.





filosofem

[pianosound]

And I didn't say it; I copied it directly from the users guide.

Sorry spk,,,,,I assumed that that was obvious,, and therefore I didn't quite word it right.

Mike