Who's drum programming in Reaper?

So, who's programming drums in Reaper and using the MIDI editor to edit parts? What drum sampler are you using? How intuitive have you found it for composing drum parts?

cheating by answering this question cuz i'm not composing in reaper but i use/love Poise and recommend it to all my fwends

EZDrummer homie. I usually insert a midi beat from them and modify as needed

Good question. I'd be interested to see what people say. I usually make a 1 bar time selection and then put the record mode to midi overdub and then play a beat with my midi keyboard. As the beat comes back around I add a new drum part like a snare or bass drum. If I make a mistake I press the record button while the beat's still goin and then press undo to get rid of what I just did. I'm not sure if many people know about that but it's a pretty cool feature. It's like the equivalant of gurus commit and undo button which is good for making beats in realtime without having to stop. For simplicity of drum sampler I find that idrum is the best and most intuitive way to get a beat down.

I have a question about using EZDrummer. Say I string together a few different midi grooves onto a track. When i double click on the 1st bar to pull up the piano roll view to edit the pattern, it only pulls up that one 4/4 groove and not the whole track. Is there a way to double click in the track and have it pull up the piano roll with all the MIDI for the whole track? It'd make it much easier for me to make small variations in the patterns across the length of the track.

I program drums in Reaper using the MIDI editor to edit parts? For sounds I use Addictive Drums (AD) or drum samples in either Kontakt 2 or Shortcircuit. Sometimes I start with either AD beats or Groove Monkey midi beats, then edit them. Sometimes I start from scratch. I find Reaper's midi event editor is intuitive and easy to use for creating/editing beats, but I would like the option of unequal grid line spacings for swing/groove settings. Pete

Hello there, currently I am more on the "hiphopish" side of things, and I did not know what would be the best way... I tried different free drum vsts, but in the end, I find that the easier way is to have one track per instrument, and use Reasamplomatic. The only problem I have is that if I record Kick + Snare + hihat at the same time, I "pollute" the kick track with the snare and hihats midi notes, and same for the other tracks that record extra unwanted notes. I added a small midi note filter (I did not find any in the standard JS tools, is there one that I missed maybe ?) made by ndc () This way even though some extra notes are recorded, they are not played back. But I would love to filter the input, by track. (say that on track "Kick", I want to ignore all the notes except #36)...

I am using MDrummer. IMHO the fastest way to get a good Drum Track on the fly. And still with full possibility to finetune it to a great track later in MIDI. Pick a drumset, pick a base ryhthm. On the MIDI-track just tell MDrummer what he shall play on a high level, say Intro, 4 bars verse, short break, 4 bars chorus, long break, 4 bars chorus, outro... Later you can export this high level commands to the normal midi note events per instrument and fine tune... Remember that MDrummer small is free (lacks a lot of sound editors and the base rhythm editor, so you have to do a bit more in reapers midi editor).

i play around with sampled drums here and there, but i haven't found a method i like yet. i used a midi keyboard for a while, then added a kick trigger, tried stringing together short grooves in the midi editor, etc. i think i need to just get a real kit and mic it up. i'm the world's worst midi drummer.

me using battery3 most of the time. work in one midiitem and multiple outputs. sometimes I lay the midi-tracks for snare, hh, kick, toms seperatly on new tracks. works fine.