I have a piece I’m working on and adding a drum segment by downloading a kick drum sound and a snare drum file…both wav…and pasting them into the appropriate track…
being fairly new at this I struggled with getting them to line up with the click track…but eventually got that done…then I was hoping to be able to copy that beat and paste it to the end of the track…just repeat it over and over again…other wise I have to paste each individual drum stroke…
I can’t it…
so I reverted to plan B which was copy the initial drum stroke, and paste it into the next place where the drum stroke should be…ending up with two…drag copy those two and paste ending up with four…and then eight and so forth…still a long long process…and if the initial paste of any of the eight is off just a tiny amount…by the time you get to 64…there’s significant timing problems…
I would have bet there was a way to use your drum sound in Generate > Rhythm. I know this was a discussion a while back. Generate > Rhythm got so complicated I couldn’t figure out how to make a simple metronome. “I don’t need 3/4 slide/swing. I just need it to go ‘tick, tick, tick.’”
Maybe do it upside down. Make the drum track as you like it and then play to that instead of the built-in generator. That’s what real humans would be doing.
There might be a cheat. Create your three-minute drum track so it’s not too far off and then use Effect > Change Speed to match it up. There is also Effect > Change Pitch and Effect > Change Rhythm, but I don’t trust those two because they work by taking the sound apart. You could try them.
snare drum file…both wav…
There is a caution. Make darn sure they are WAV. MP3 files have timing problems.
Once you have a full bar, you can repeat the bar to make a phrase, then repeat the phrase, and so on.
One thing to watch out for is that digital audio works in “samples” (typically 44100 samples per second). If you have a tempo of say 120 bpm, that’s 2 beats per second, which is 22050 samples per beat. However, if you have a tempo of 121 bpm, that’s just a bit less than 21868 samples, so after a few repeats the beats will drift a little away from the 121 bpm. Best to stick with tempos that divide exactly into the sample rate.