Re: [Zynaddsubfx-user] Help Me Please

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On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 08:10, Ryan O'Reilly wrote:
> Hey Guy's
>  
>     I absolutely love this program.  I've been looking for something
> like this for years.  I'm disabled yet am able to write a libraries
> worth of music and lyrics.  The piece I've been working on now is
> called "INNER WARS".  It's all about the struggling to become a better
> person, with a great Christian value, moral, and ethics.  I hope that
> ya'll can help me out with this.  I need a great drum kit plug in.  As
> well I need to be able to program each note into the software.  That
> way every thing is in the correct beat.  I have it all written down to
> work on and am ready to go to work with it.  I hope that ya'll will
> help me out with this.  I will as well share the music when it's
> complete.  You wont be disappointed.  No one has of yet.
>  
> Thank you very Much!!!,
> Ryan B. O'Reilly

Ryan,
   Two Linux environments and one library you might look at:

1) If you want to be GUI based then take a look at hydrogen. It's a GUI
based drum machine capable of generating drum audio. Some folks like it
a lot. 

2) If you want to program MIDI drum patterns yourself, then look at a
new little drum programming language called drums++. In this environment
you program where you want the drum beats and then drums++ will play
them on your MIDI drum machine or generate MIDI files for you to load
into a sequencer of your choice. I've used the patterns with both
Rosegarden and Pro Tools.

3) If you want a very good library with 1000's of measures of real MIDI
drum patterns played by a real drummer and recorded as MIDI files, check
out DrumTrax. For $50 it's an amazing offer. The GUI only works under
Windows, as far as I know, or maybe Wine, but the libraries are
importable in Linux sequencers like Rosegarden.

As always, check out Dave Phillips amazing resources at:

http://linux-sound.org

as the most complete reference on all of this sort of stuff. Thee's lots
of other drum oriented things there.

Good luck,
Mark