>I've been (lazily) following this thread but for the reason I THINK >it first started - which I think was - What is the best set up for replacing >real drums with samples? Yes it started with a request for a replacement for MDA BeatBox which was crashing. The subject line changed a few times. I hope the one I've used here is OK. >I don't need the >slicing up/timestretching features that people have talked about with >Recycle or PMP, but if they will allow me to send a single MIDI note number >per track to an EXS24, or perhaps even load a sample into the plug >themselves and trigger then I think they would be worth the cash just to >speed up the process of getting from live drums to sampled drums. They sell a MIDI output for Drumagog, it's not in the free demo though. If you want more than one channel I guess you could open multiple instances but I think you'd need a lot of processing power. I just tried Phatmatic Pro and (like Drumagog) it gives me good timing accuracy and a clean result, but PMP doesn't seem to take any volume dynamics from the original audio. More stable than Drumagog in Silver 4.7/4.8. Dunno if PMP will send MIDI directly but it's not hard to make it spit a MIDI track onto the arrange page. I had a bit of trouble ensuring the tempo of the MIDI matched the audio exactly; being a beatslicer the timing's variable, which is probably great for a lot of stuff but I just wanted to preserve the tempo of the original wav file. I think it can directly replace slices with samples, so if it's also efficient at saving/reloading them, it might prove simpler than passing the MIDI on to a sample player. I'll have to mess with it a bit more. >Another solution use the Voice One from Helicon Does anybody know the URL for this? Can't find it anywhere. Cheers, Andy