Using brushes in Reaper

Burnsjethro · 07-03-2019, 09:18 AM

I have a collection of brush drum sounds in the form of wave files. Any idea, please, how I can use them?

I have tried dragging two of them onto Reasamplomatic windows then opening them up in a midi file. They are actually there but the time and stuff is a really confused. I am trying to get a basic brush drum backing going!
This idea has worked in the past with kick and snare. In fact I managed to get these linked to my keyboard so I could do the kicking and snaring (although I have forgotten how I actually did that because I have been working with a drum kit program (which has no brushes) for quite some time now).

fakemaxwell · 07-03-2019, 10:12 AM

This works well- https://decomposer.de/sitala.html

Burnsjethro · 07-03-2019, 02:17 PM

Fakemaxwell, thanks a lot. But, sorry for the but, but I am not sure how to use/ install this plugin and I don't see any brushes.

Philbo King · 07-04-2019, 06:39 AM

You need to cut them up into separate brush hits and save each unique sound to a separate file. I'd then assign each sound to a separate midi note, and use a separate instance of RS5000 in the same FX chain, for each.

Kenny Gioia has a video showing how to do this.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CkdksJGg214

Burnsjethro · 07-04-2019, 06:49 AM

Thanks Philbo.

They are all separate files, with different, unique sounds!
You mean assign them different notes and then use the keyboard to tap along?

Burnsjethro · 07-04-2019, 07:11 AM

I think this might be useful as well. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction Philbo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0p9r_QYU0CA

Burnsjethro · 07-05-2019, 06:04 AM

It's working really well now. I am playing the brushes from my keyboard. Thanks everybody.

Philbo King · 07-07-2019, 09:29 PM

Glad you got ir sorted out

shady · 07-07-2019, 10:25 PM

share plz

Burnsjethro · 07-08-2019, 12:56 AM

How do you mean "share", Shady?

shady · 07-11-2019, 01:22 PM

why the brush samples of course

Burnsjethro · 07-11-2019, 03:40 PM

OK. Give me a couple of days.

Burnsjethro · 07-15-2019, 01:06 PM

Well, I have the brush files all ready in a folder but I am not sure how to upload it to resources. I browse to the folder but when I click it show all the wav files and the only option I seem to have is load the files (17) one by one! Any better ideas please?

shady · 07-15-2019, 08:46 PM

maybe zip them and host on google drive

Burnsjethro · 07-16-2019, 02:45 AM

If anyone has a better suggestion!

Burnsjethro · 07-16-2019, 02:58 AM

I zipped them and the zip showed up in the upload section but then when I tried to upload I was told the file was too big or too small. It is 4.02 MB. When is the maximum permissible size?

Burnsjethro · 07-16-2019, 03:41 AM

Apparently the maximum size is 2 MB so I zipped them three times and posted them to the "Sounds" section. I hope they are of some use to you all.