Dr. Rex ROCK loops...

Do a search for reel drums and DBFH, several of us have been threading on it for the past few days. If you want a quick solution, just go to dedrum within reason and draw in some quick patterns. I started to use my Oxy8 for it, but found it easier to just drawn in some quick rock patterns. In fact I pretty much copied note what the real drummer did on the 4 min song under an hour. Go to redrum and pick a set that has drums samples similiar to what you want and use reason's pencil tool to draw them in. If you have any queries, send me an email and I will give you my cell. Although the weather over here in SW Houston if sweet today, I might have to go outside and hang awhile...

There's some great resources for this stuff at . many fan sites and free downloads are available all over the net, too, a little searching will give you many hits.

Mike, I need to borrow your thread to ask another DrRex question if you don't mind. I'm pretty new to it though I'm already using it....but I wanted to ask you guys about this. Let's say I draw DrRex into 2 measures in the Reason sequencer window, careful that it starts right at the beginning of the measure. Well, sometimes the loop is not the same as in 'Preview' when it's played with the track. It plays in time, but seems 'jumbled up'...so it comes out as a different loop basically..... best I can describe it anyway. Given this is with 'Preview' off. Do you know what may cause this? thanks, Roy

roy, are the MIDI notes that get printed onto the sequencer arranged in this funky, different-from-the-preview pattern, or is it maybe something fishy with the MIDI timing in the 'puter? i dunnno. strange stuff. it's never happened to me.

kmshroom... Wouldn't you know it, but I can't recreate the problem now that I have a chance for some advice. I had moved on when it was acting up, and though I'm doing the same thing now, it's working perfectly. I just wanted to see if it sounded obvious to anyone. Reason does seem to act a little fluky for me sometimes. For instance, sometimes inserting various ReDrum patterns in the Reason seq. window works, and sometimes it will not respond. But it may just be a little Midi confusion, because I use both the PT sequencer w/Reason sounds and the Reason sequencer w/Redrum or Dr Rex. Plus I have a Korg sound module into PT midi/PT sequencer. So there's a lot going on, and being fairly new to Reason, I'm not sure if Reason is just 'fluky' sometimes, or if it's just something I may be doing wrong each time. Does Reason ever act 'fickled' with any of you guys? thanks, Roy

Roy, I have only had reason for 2 weeks now and just played with dedrum, thus haven't seen any quirks yet. Have you posted this over at the prop BB?