Yeah, I’ll readily admit that my comments are based on my personal workflow, which is probably not what most people do:
- Create an instance of Jamstix and Battery.
- Set the structure of the song using the wizard. The kit is always the Battery 3 mappings (Tight Kit or Full Jazz kit normally).
- Set the output of Jamstix to be the input of Battery.
- Run through the song repeatedly until I set the various options so that it gives me the feel I want.
- Enable record on the MIDI track associated with Battery.
- Hand edit any specific changes that I need, like a hi-hat foot for the intro bars instead of actual drums, or specific fills that I have in mind that are synchronized with other tracks.
So I really don’t need the bar editor, the built in mixer, etc.
For the sake of completeness, here’s the rest of my drum workflow…
- Use the Transformer MIDI insert to filter out all MIDI notes but the Kick (using presets I’ve developed and saved).
- Export a mixdown of the Battery VST and import into a new audio track.
- Repeat steps 7 and 8 for the snare, hi-hit, cymbals, and toms.
- Apply processing to each of the 5 drum tracks (normally stock track presets).
- Route the snare, hi-hat, and cymbals to a group channel with a HPF set at 90 Hz.
- Route the kick, toms, and the HPF group channel to a new group channel to control the entire drum set volume.