Need help creating steady kick-snare groove

[keys_js]

Hi

I am totally new to JS version 3 and I have gone through the manual several times. But I could not figure out, what the easiest way is to create a steady kick and snare groove manually and add some "brain" stuff to it.

I want to have 4bars with kick on beat 1 and 3 and snare on beat 3 in every bar - constantly.

I will place all the kick and snare event manually in the bar editor and copy it for the next 4 bars.

How can I add the JS brain to that without touching kick and snare?

thx for your help - I really missed that one...

keys

[Ralph @ Rayzoon]

Try this:

- create your kick/snare pattern in an empty bar
- use 'Turn Groove Into Style' in the bar menu
- use 'Extract From Other Style' in the brain menu and import the hihat from Toolbox->Standard Rock

You now have your groove plus the hihat from JS3. Load the drummer of your choice for accents, fills and feel processing and adjust as needed.

[keys_js]

I have tried this - works - thank you.

Meanwhile I have also read the manual again...

What do you think about this approach:
- Choose the "silent" style and no drummer
- Programm the key aspects of your groove manually (kick, snare and special crash hits e.g.)
- Programm all bars of a part to get the key performance
- now add a drummer and let it generate all the rest (e.g. hihats or slight variations and accents)
- Do not forgett to set your manually programmed events to a high priority so that they are really being played!

With this approach I should be able to programm a kick manually according to my guitar riff e.g. without the need to play with the brain to get the desired kick performance - right?

As far as I understand JS I will not use JSs full possibilities because I force JS into a manually programmed kick an snare pattern over n bars and let JS just compose the hihats and accents and so on.

Is this a good way to have more control over JS as long as I know what I want from the drummer ("I want to have that kick on beat 1,3 and 4 in bar 832!")?

Or is there another even better way?

[Ralph @ Rayzoon]

This approach works but the one I described earlier is more flexible. You only have to place the kick/snare events manually in one bar (or more for multi-bar patterns) and let the "turn groove to style function" instruct JS to enforce that pattern. It becomes a rule that you can combine with other styles or style elements, which gives you flexibility.