Drum machine designer bug ?? ( or is it just me ?? )

when I use the drum machine designer I cant reset the channel strip and the normal arrows to change the plug in are not there nor are the on/off button but it is there for every other plug in ??? The picture is showing the missing power and arrows that normally bring up the plug in list

so you can't just choose another instrument
From the choices given to you in the DMD library yes... just select the pad and then select the pad sound you wish to use from the library browser...
I think its weird that you can't bring up the plug in list
Agajn Please read the info in the link I provided... DMD is NOT a plugin.. even though it resides in the Instrument slot.... Its a 'special' type of patch....
To delete a DMD track.. just delete the main track and add a new one...

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The DMD is really a preset combo of Samples and FX.....
If you notice... the DMD 'plugin' isn't actually a 'normal' plugin even though it goes into the instrument slot...
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It's actually Ultrabeat running in the background... playing samples plus FX plugins on various Auxes plus a fancy front end..... to manipulate the sounds all via a very clever bit of work in the environment
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Ah ok, I have a better idea of what you want to do now.
Unfortunately there isn't anything inside GB that can come anywhere close to Acoustica Beatcraft, but there are two tools inside Garageband that can help you do something similar.
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After working with LPX for a couple of days after release with almost no problems save for a few system overload errors that always seemed to sort themselves out, I loaded up a project I had been working on to find that it crashed every time I tried to play the track. Other, smaller projects, still played in varying degrees, some having to wait for a long time seemingly for samplers to load up etc.
I did some testing (painstaking, considering that I was having to force-quit the application for my computer to even run again; as an aside there were never any error reports for whatever reason) and found that it appears to be Drummer/Drum Kit Designer that's causing massive memory usage. Looking at the activity monitor when loading the project revealed that the memory usage would just go up and up until it maxed out my (rather modest) 4GB RAM, at which point there would be no free memory and the computer would slow almost to a standstill. Removing all instances of Drum Kit Designer and Drummer reduces the load to a point where it is once again manageable.
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This is not a memory bug. It's simply the nature of the new Drummer.
Drummer uses a LOT of samples. It's a 13GB download for a reason. You will need more than 4GB to use drummer and not run into issues.
The nature of the modern Logic engine - which seems unchanged from v9 - makes it very bad at being able to tell when it's running out of memory. Logic will simply freeze or crash most of the time it runs out. The freeze would be down to it using literally every last MB on your RAM without overstepping the boundary, and the crash would be downt to it claiming to need more real RAM than you have spare.
Producer kits use 5.1 surround samples, and submixes them to stereo in a way that posistions them around the space. Whilst a doddle for a modern machine, you Mac is rather long in the tooth to be trying to do that whilst struggling to handle 1.2GB patches with 4GB of RAM total.

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For this, UB works much the same than most step sequencer drum machines.
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The next thing ist: UB lets you synthesize your own drum sounds. It's a comlete Synth with different LFO / Filters and so on. Lots of technical stuff - one **** of a machine for those who know how to tweak. And you can also load your own drum samples into it.
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My goal is to make separate audio tracks from the MIDI output coming out of a hardware Boss DR-880 drum machine. It has nice drum samples that I would like to use. So far, I know how to split the output by MIDI notes as to create multiple tracks. I end up with a about 10 tracks which are all MIDI of course. What I want to do is end up with all audio tracks. This way I can set the levels and EQ to taste for each part of the drum kit.
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hi there:
ok now when u want to do such a thing which i totally understand what u are trying to do !so u have these options L
1- u should have a mixer to feed it with all your outputs from outboard gears like drum machines ,samplers etc...coz what u like in your dr-880 is the character of its sound and trust me if i tell you even if u tried to sample it and put it into any sampler software ,it will have the same sound but not the same character ! so thats why we still have samplers and out board gears and they will be still manufactured coz of that reason ...so for example i use my akai s6000 sampler which it has 16 outputs direct to my mixer so i can do what ever i want midi wise and audio wise with out any pain ,coz even if i have the same samples into my whatever sampler software i will never have the color and the character of the sound coming out from my akai ...and i use a drum machine which it has 10 outs as well and all is playing in sync in real trime with my audio tracks inside my logic ...this is the best solution !but i think u dont have that solution but u have to think about it if u bring a good console..!
2- you don't have to divide your midi from your machine you just do what ever its need to be done and when u finish record them one by one into your logic or 2 by 2 or what ever but in this case u cant control the midi of it anymore
but you gonna pain to do that every time coz sometime u dont have much time to think about u have to record the sound before any mix down!but it will work for you
3- make samples by your own of your drum machine and use esx24 to play them !but again you gonna lose the character of your sound but still having the same sounds u want ( if u know how do make a good samples).
i hope this tips gonna be useful for you .
cheers..!:)

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I was on the phone with Alesis and the guy was talking 100 MPH about what I could do, and he totally confused me. I asked him if I used the MIDI outs, could I then do something to be able to edit the drum parts separately. He started talking about sequencers, time clocks, etc. I am fairly new to all that stuff.
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Hi,
From what I'm reading about your needs, I think the best thing is to let go of the Alesis and work with what Logic (and Garageband) has for drum loops. You also can buy more drum loops from this great site:
http://www.drumsondemand.com/index.html
They sell prerecorded live drums cut into loops. A ton of them. I think it would be a lot easier to work with this than trying to figure out all the midi ins and outs with the Alesis. I'm kind of into going this route as well.
From their faq's:
"GarageBand: Apple Loops or 24-bit Acidized WAVs. Apple Loops are AIF audio files with the TCE tags we've put in them. While GB2 does support Acid files, you have to drag and drop them from the desktop; you don't find them in the Apple Loops Browser. (You can't preview them very quickly.) If you use multiple platforms then you might go with the WAVs. If you really like the Apple Loops Browser or are a basic user then go with the Apple Loops format. Note also that even though Garageband only outputs 16-bit, you can use 24-bit files within the program. So if you do go with the WAV format you might as well go 24-bit in case later on you work in another program and want the highest quality.
Logic: We recommend REX files. However, the latest version of Logic does support Acid WAVs and Apple Loops. Unless you are a beginner, or are using multiple platforms, we recommend REX2 for Logic because REX files are more "flexible" in some ways (see REX info below)."
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software instrument)....
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I am looking for:
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2) Loops that have names that are succinct and informative.
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