Setting up Redrum to restart a sample after hitting the same pad again

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Tonie Hock

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I dont know if theres a name for this, but ill try to explain,

I have redrum connected to my padKontrol, now say I got a long sample, maybe a bar or two in length, and when im playing the padkontrol, if i hit that sample again, instead of stopping the playback and restarting it, it puts a new instance of it on top while the other one plays out, so it sort of echos until the first instance plays out.

I would like it to just cut the first one and start over.

I found a setting that made it so that a sample only plays as long as i hold the pad down, but thats not exactly what i want either, because it requires me to sit there and hold it like a piano key

Thanks for any input!
oh, and im using reason 4 on a mac.. dont know if that is important to know or not.
 
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The problem is the Polyphony. In the NN-XT sampler you can load samples and change the polyphony to 1. That means only one instance of a note can be played at a time (this works with the Subtractor and other instruments as well). As soon as you trigger a note after the first one, it will interrupt it (because only one instance of a note can play at a time). Unfortunately, Redrum doesn't give you that option so each sample has to play out its full length. I use ReDrum for the drums (only) and if I want to trigger loops or samples I use the NN-XT or Dr. Rex (with Polyphony set to 1). Hope that helps.
 
Thanks so much for the reply, that does help, although its not what I really wanted to hear ;) haha

Strange they left the option out or redrum, I'm sure I'm not the only person who would find it handy, especially for doing something like a live show where I wanted to actually play a whole beat by hand, ohwells!

thanks again
 
Tonie Hock said:
Strange they left the option out or redrum, I'm sure I'm not the only person who would find it handy, especially for doing something like a live show where I wanted to actually play a whole beat by hand, ohwells!

thanks again
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Something I have told the developers many, many times.
 
Tonie Hock said:
Thanks so much for the reply, that does help, although its not what I really wanted to hear ;) haha

Strange they left the option out or redrum, I'm sure I'm not the only person who would find it handy, especially for doing something like a live show where I wanted to actually play a whole beat by hand, ohwells!

thanks again
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Just an idea...Once you construct the parts to a song and you feel like its mixed well, draw out each piece by itself in the sequencer (drums by themselves, bass, samples, etc). Export as a wave file. Then, go back to ReCycle and chop up all the pieces again and save as a rex file. Now you can load all the chunks into a Dr. Rex or NN-XT and jam away with your MIDI controller live with all the pieces on one instrument. This would work well for live performances and you can have a unique performance each time.
 
Dang that's a great idea, I'll deff mess with that! I was thinking I would have to learn and use some other program like ableton to do live stuff, wasn't too stoked on doing that, learning reason is enough already lol, but this is a good work around
 
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