Beast: midi percussion?

Hi,

After import of a midi file, what can be done with the
percussion channel? General Midi difines about 80
percussive
sounds, mapped to different midi notes on channel 10.
Is the mapping to beast synthesizers or waves implemented
and how do you handle that?

Regards,
Wouter Boeke
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   Hi!

On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 07:10:58AM +0200, W.Boeke wrote:
> After import of a midi file, what can be done with the
> percussion channel? General Midi difines about 80
percussive
> sounds, mapped to different midi notes on channel 10.
> Is the mapping to beast synthesizers or waves
implemented
> and how do you handle that?

The "beast" way to do it, is to create so-called
bsewave files, which
can contain many individual samples. That way, you can
create a bsewave
file containing a base drum sample and a snare sample and so
on, and
define for which frequency (which midi note) these shall be
used.

Tracks/examples I made already contain such multi samples,
and the 808
kit you can download from the instrument archive at the
beast site is
based on such a multisample, too. However, bsewavetool
(which is needed
to create such bsewave files) is not yet part of any
official beast
release.

We're working on including it in the next release, 0.7.2, of
beast, as
the tentative release plan shows:

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/beast/2007-April/msg
00001.html

   Cu... Stefan
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On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 07:10:58AM +0200, W.Boeke wrote:
 > > After import of a midi file, what can be done
with the
 > > percussion channel? General Midi difines about 80
percussive
 > > sounds, mapped to different midi notes on channel
10.
 > > Is the mapping to beast synthesizers or waves
implemented
 > > and how do you handle that?

 > The "beast" way to do it, is to create
so-called bsewave files, which
 > can contain many individual samples. That way, you can
create a bsewave
 > file containing a base drum sample and a snare sample
and so on, and
 > define for which frequency (which midi note) these
shall be used.

Thanks! Here is the next question: how do you do that?

 > Tracks/examples I made already contain such multi
samples, and the 808
 > kit you can download from the instrument archive at
the beast site is
 > based on such a multisample, too.

The README file says that the file drums-808kit.bse should
be moved
to ~/beast/instruments. I don't have a directory ~/beast, so
I placed
the file in /usr/local/share/beast/v0.7.1/instruments. Now
what?

Regards,
Wouter Boeke
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   Hi!

On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 02:20:04PM +0200, W.Boeke wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 07:10:58AM +0200, W.Boeke
wrote:
>  > > After import of a midi file, what can be
done with the
>  > > percussion channel? General Midi difines
about 80 percussive
>  > > sounds, mapped to different midi notes on
channel 10.
>  > > Is the mapping to beast synthesizers or
waves implemented
>  > > and how do you handle that?
> 
>  > The "beast" way to do it, is to create
so-called bsewave files, which
>  > can contain many individual samples. That way,
you can create a bsewave
>  > file containing a base drum sample and a snare
sample and so on, and
>  > define for which frequency (which midi note)
these shall be used.
> 
> Thanks! Here is the next question: how do you do that?

Using bsewavetool. See my other mail and tentative 0.7.2
release plan.

Now you may say (after you reread that): if its not
released, how can I
use it? If you compiled from source, you'll find a working
version of
bsewavetool in the tools/ directory of the source tree.
However, we're
still polishing bsewavetool (and yes, there will even be a
manual page),
so... the format, the options and so on may still change.

So you can try to use it now, or wait until its polished,
documented and
released.

>  > Tracks/examples I made already contain such multi
samples, and the 808
>  > kit you can download from the instrument archive
at the beast site is
>  > based on such a multisample, too.
> 
> The README file says that the file drums-808kit.bse
should be moved
> to ~/beast/instruments. I don't have a directory
~/beast, so I placed
> the file in /usr/local/share/beast/v0.7.1/instruments.
Now what?

Use Synthesizer -> Load Instrument.

The 808 Kit will show up as "DrumWave" (well, I
should have given it a
proper name); you can also use the File Selection tab of the
dialog,
then you need not place the file in any special directory.

   Cu... Stefan
-- 
Stefan Westerfeld, Hamburg/Germany, http://space.twc.de/~stef
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