DAN AGOSTO: Hi. I'm Dan and you're watching an instructional screencast presented by Gearwire.Com. So now we're taking a look at DrumCore's MIDI functionalities, and in this particular video, we're going to be looking at a loop by John Bishop, and it's called the JB Sidewind. We're at 90 BPM in both DrumCore and our host so let's take a listen.

[DAN AGOSTO PLAYING BACK JB SIDEWIND LOOP IN DRUMCORE]

Okay. So what I want to do is drag that as a MIDI file into Sonar, and it's actually a MIDI file triggering the internal sampler of DrumCore, so you can actually feed DrumCore other MIDI if you don't have a fine enough sampler, and so now we have that in Sonar. I'm going to go ahead and make this transparent, and so now we're just listening back to the MIDI in Sonar. That's a two-measure loop, so we're going to go back to DrumCore and maybe want to change that up a little bit. Now, we looked at the Gabrielizer -- the Gabrielize function for audio already and, you know, I don't really like it for that much but for MIDI, I think it's actually pretty cool.

[DAN AGOSTO APPLYING THE GABRIELIZE FUNCTION TO THE JB SIDEWIND LOOP IN DRUMCORE]

You actually get things that sound real sometimes. All right, so just a little different, and we can go ahead and drag that into Sonar just the same and play it back.

[DAN AGOSTO PLAYING BACK JB SIDEWIND LOOP IN DRUMCORE]

Okay. So, one of the things I like to do while experimenting with MIDI is try it out with different samplers, so we're going to just feed the MIDI into say Session Drummer. I'm going to open that up so we're going to take a look.

[DAN AGOSTO PLAYING BACK JB SIDEWIND LOOP IN SESSION DRUMMER]

That's just a regular rock kit, and you can hear, you know, there's some feel. It's nice MIDI. It's got different velocities and a human feel, not totally computer quantized. And we can also maybe let's try Battery. This is the Native Instruments, make all the instruments disappear and drag down the MIDI.

[DAN AGOSTO PLAYING BACK JB SIDEWIND LOOP IN BATTERY]

So this is a synthetic kit. So those are just a few of the things that you can do with the MIDI from DrumCore. Thanks for checking it out.