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Chapter 6: Band-in-a-Box PowerGuide

RealDrums

The RealDrums feature replaces MIDI drums with audio drums recorded live by top studio drummers.

Why do RealDrums sound better than MIDI Drums?

RealDrums are recordings of top studio drummers playing multi-bar patterns, whereas MIDI drums are patterns

based on single drum hits programmed, typically on a quantized grid, as people assume drummers are typically

playing.

With RealDrums, we record top studio drummers at multiple tempos, so the playing you hear at various tempos is

also musically different, not just “sped up.” Drummers play different types of fills etc. at slower/faster tempos, and

these are captured with RealDrums.

Technical note: If interested, you can see which tempos have been recorded by looking in the Band-in-a-Box/Drums folder for the

particular style you are interested in.

How Do RealDrums Work?

There are several ways to hear RealDrums with new or existing Band-in-a-Box songs. RealDrums can be added to a

single song, or substituted for MIDI drums in existing styles.

We provide many styles that already have RealDrums. These styles can be identified by the style name beginning

with a minus sign. For example “-ZZJAZZ.STY” is a version of the ZZJAZZ style that uses RealDrums.

Let’s Explore the Real Drums

Let’s load in some RealDrums tunes!

Open the Applications/Band-in-a-Box/Drums - Demos folder and you’ll see folders of demo tunes. These will

demonstrate the RealDrums.

Let’s load in “JazzBrushes_145_Demo.MGU” from the /Applications/Band-in-a-Box/Drums – Demos folder. Press

[Play]. If you have the RealDrums style installed for “JazzBrushes” (i.e., you have a folder called “Band-in-a-

Box/Drums/JazzBrushes”), then you should now be hearing RealDrums. You can tell right away, because the

count-in sound is different, it is not the usual MIDI count-in, but is a side-stick or snare live drum sound.

As the RealDrums are playing:

- Change the tempo of the music as it is playing. Use the standard tempo controls, the square bracket keys [ and

], to change the tempo and the RealDrums will change immediately to the new tempo. (The [ and ] keys change

tempo by 5 bpm.)

- Press STOP, and then change the tempo to a far slower tempo (like 60 bpm). Now press PLAY. Notice that the

RealDrums are not just playing slower, they are playing differently, with appropriate patterns and fills for a

slower tempo! This is because we have recorded the drummers playing at different tempos, and include a wide

variety of tempos inside the RealDrums folder.

Open up the StylePicker, and notice the category called “Styles with

RealDrums.” This lists many RealDrums styles that we’ve made. We always name the RealDrums style

beginning with a minus sign, so that “-ZZJAZZ.STY” would be the ZZJAZZ style, but using RealDrums

instead.

In the RealDrums Picker, click on the [Settings] Button to open up the Real Drums

Settings dialog. Try turning off the RealDrums by de- selecting “Enable RealDrums.”

Using RealDrums

The RealDrums toolbar button opens a menu to choose the RealDrums Picker Dialog, Shift+click, or

the RealDrums Preferences, Ctrl+click.

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