Lead in bars and full stops

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Nutty
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Lead in bars and full stops

Post by Nutty »

Hi,

I'm still very new to using Jamstix. I did get through the tutoral I found online and I think the link is available here as well, so things are looking up (I hope).

I was wondering how I can stop the drums from playing the lead in bars. I've laid the song out and put 2 measures 0 repetitions, but that didnt' work.

Also, I have another song that I would like to use Jamstix for the drums. There are parts where everything comes to a complete stop. Can this be done with Jamstix?

I'm just learning my way around the layout, so if you could provide detailed instructions that would be great!

Thanks.

Nutty
Robitaille20
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Lead in bars and full stops

Post by Robitaille20 »

My first gut instinct from what it sounds like you are trying to do (and I may more than likely be wrong) for the measures you want silence would be to do this:

For the measures in question, set both your style and drummer to 'Silent'. That is what I've done in the past and it gave me the results I was looking for.

If I am indeed wrong, I'm sure that someone will pop up here REALLY soon and correct me, and I'll learn something new too!
Nutty
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Lead in bars and full stops

Post by Nutty »

Is it the "silent drummer" that you're referring to? If not, I'm not sure where to do this. It's a good idea and it should work. The only thing I'm not sure about is for the full stop, because I'm not sure it is for a whole measure. I'll try it and see.

Thanks.

Nutty
Ralph @ Rayzoon
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Lead in bars and full stops

Post by Ralph @ Rayzoon »

Lead-in: are you using the lead-in/count-in function of your host or are you just leaving 2 measures of silence in the host?

Silence: 'Silent' will work for full bars(s). If you need less than a bar, left-click on the ticks in the bar editor to force JS2 to leave those ticks silent. They will show a red diagonal line to indicate forced silence.
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