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Fantastic for playing live. Couldn't be simpler! (no pun intended...)

I use an FCB1010 to select one of 8 different Impulse kits, which can even be done in the middle of a fill. It switches almost instantly.

I mainly use it to sequence my xbase in Live.
Works a treat.

johnisfaster

guru is a cpu beast and I didn't like it at all to be honost.

Yeah, I've been having a love/hate with the demo for a few months now.

lord toranaga

I use it alot. I have buit hundreds of custom kits.
real simple, D&D, great interface

Totally, and you've hit on my second question: When making your custom kits, do you find/create the samples yourself? I've been looking for a decent drum sample library to build some kits from. Was checking out SampleLab's Drum Fundamentals- http://www.samplelab.com/slweb/df_info.jsp

Either that or go through all my Computer Music cd's and pick and choose hits...but that would take a whole day!

forge

I actually really like impulse as is - of course it's even better now that you can rack them together, and as soon as you can have all of the keys named in the midi editor by default then it's a done deal

Yeah, I'm really hoping the names will be in the midi editor as well...that would suck if only the first eight were.

for me personally the click on the end bug (which is getting addressed in 6 BTW) is not a deal breaker

That's good to hear! but...

hoffman2k

All it needs now is...a fix for that damn sample preview thing.

Uh-oh, what's that???


Now that I've finally got my Axiom pads to work with Impulse, things have been even more kick ass!
Thanks for all the responses guys!

Prior to impulse, I used to make all my beats in the arrangement view and then either cut & paste or consolidate them. When impulse was brought out, I was slow to get into it - I was used to my own workflow. Now it's all I use for making beats. I like that I can get the sounds right, then drop them into impulse, and have a minimum number of effects in impulse to play with things a little bit.

My brain is only so big and Impulse confuses me

For any and all drums I use Simpler (one shots) that way, one track - one drum

Now, If Impulse had a built in Sequencer like ReDrum or MicroTonic it would make it easier for my brain to comprehend having all those drums in one instrument

I'm serious - my brain is only so big


Oh and FYI - When you use the trick people use to cut a slice out of a loop and drag into Impulse for a drum part and get that click at the end

SIMPLER doesn't do that!

SIMPLER dawg, SIMPLER

the click in impulse was 'getting addressed' in Live 5

i'm not holding my breath

mo

Would be nice to hear from the Abes on this one...

Now, If Impulse had a built in Sequencer like ReDrum or MicroTonic it would make it easier for my brain to comprehend having all those drums in one instrument

Doesn't it though (pretty much)?
I mean, load a kit, double-click a cell in the track and voila! - an 8x16 step grid with all of the drums listed on the left.

I hate how ReDrum doesn't let you see where you put what without constantly clicking back and forth on the individual drums. You don't get a "big picture" until you send it to the sequencer...

jamester wrote:

Now, If Impulse had a built in Sequencer like ReDrum or MicroTonic it would make it easier for my brain to comprehend having all those drums in one instrument

Doesn't it though (pretty much)?
I mean, load a kit, double-click a cell in the track and voila! - an 8x16 step grid with all of the drums listed on the left.

I hate how ReDrum doesn't let you see where you put what without constantly clicking back and forth on the individual drums. You don't get a "big picture" until you send it to the sequencer...

Nah, I need those little boxes at the bottom that light up when you turn them on

does anyone NOT like impulse?

sometimes i like it, sometimes not. i often use redrum or something instead, so i can run each drum part through its own effects chain. you can't do this in impulse, right? or am i smoking crack?

djadonis206 wrote:Nah, I need those little boxes at the bottom that light up when you turn them on

I hear you. I'm a huge redrum fan too, but over the last few months I've really come to dig Impulse just as much. Much easier to change grid resolutions, which opens up a whole new world when programming beats.

You can do the same thing in Reason, but you have to copy your pattern to the sequencer track first--not a big deal, just a minor workflow issue for me i guess.

Little lights would be dope on the impulse though!!

dm_hawk wrote:does anyone NOT like impulse?

sometimes i like it, sometimes not. i often use redrum or something instead, so i can run each drum part through its own effects chain. you can't do this in impulse, right? or am i smoking crack?

c'mon man, put that pipe down!!

Seriously though, you can easily run each drum part through it's own fx chain by routing each individual impulse slot into the input of its own audio track, then applying fx. Easy as easy can be—though it can make your set seem really busy to the eye if you have lots of different drum parts you want to apply fx to!

dm_hawk wrote:does anyone NOT like impulse?

sometimes i like it, sometimes not. i often use redrum or something instead, so i can run each drum part through its own effects chain. you can't do this in impulse, right? or am i smoking crack?

uh oh - you can route each drum out of impulse to it's own track and effect, easy - it's exactly the same as Redrum in that respect

But I like Impulse I just don't use it - I prefer to load one drum into one instrument - keeps it simple to some degree for me

yea, i rock the impulse. i just chop p my samples in audition and drop them in imuplse and voila........my mpc 1000 replacement.......now all i really need is some nice pads like the mpd24.

but if you like impulse the sd2100 also has 8 sample slots and some nice parameters to tweak. irs' not sp1200 full quality, but it will give your drum samles a punch. www.acquitrecords.om

djadonis206 wrote: I prefer to load one drum into one instrument - keeps it simple to some degree for me

I can see that. hmmm. hmmm.

So, do you mostly program your drums, or do you play them?