Drum Beat MIDI Project suggestions

No. I mean, you could do it with multiple projects, but then youd have a bunch of projects to shuffle thru. Now, you could have all the projects open, and only one of the projects would be “active”, so that could work…

But, why not just do it in a single project? Like you said, youd have to have the 1st song on bar 1-200 and song 2 on 202-400 or whatever, but it would allow seamless transitions between each song. And with the Marker Track being able to bring instant access to each song and then create a playlist of the songs in any order you deem fit, it would be very efficient and would allow you to rearrange the order of song on the fly, all within a single project.

For example; a project called “Gig Night” could have a total of 16 songs in it, all the songs will have their own tempo values, and can be called upon with a click. So youd create a playlist of the markers (the markers are essentially the songs) and can literally just hit play and let the whole gig play out while you guys focus on jamming.

While ive never done this, I believe the process would be something like…

1-Import all songs you wish to add. (1st song on bar 2-200, song 2 on 202-400, etc)
2-Create Tempo Track and automate the different tempo values for each song (linear).
3-Create a Marker Track and create markers for each song and name them. (Song 1, or jssi.net’s rain song (?lol))
4-Create a playlist within the Marker Track to call on particular songs in particular orders. (or just import the songs in the particular order you wish to avoid this step, though it allows playlist changes on the fly if needed. So you could play song 1 first, and if you feel the crowd doesnt feel it yet, cut to song 9, then back to song 2, or whatever.)

I apologize for not having done this before and not giving a better detailed description of how to do so, but I feel that once you get it going, it will do everything you need it to.

I just did a quick search and found these videos… maybe they will further help you… (btw, the marker track is called the Arranger Track, apparently lol. Sorry for the confusion)

Automating Tempo Track - - YouTube

Arranger Markers - - YouTube

Hope it helps. :smiley: