Reaper and MIDI no friends?

Today I toyed with Drumatic and several other midi thingies. I found out that the weirdest things happened. And I cannot find the method to the madness. I had 3 instruments in the Drumatic midi operational. I exploded this midi file into three separate ones because I wanted to be able to control the sound (reverb, filter, etc.) separately. I found out that in that case I need to have Drumatic on every track. No problem BUT: when I used classic reverb on two of the 3 tracks I noticed that the 3rd one sort of went out of sync. What I also found was that Reaper 'threw away' reasynth on a completely different track, misplaced or moved other vst's on again other tracks. I never encountered this before and I did three other sessions to see if I could see where things went wrong but each time there was something else going wrong. Like at a certain point all of the midi tracks didn't yield any sound. I have been using Reaper with great pleasure and without any major hiccups for more than 3 years now. So this was rather a shock, to be honest.

Good to see that it's Drumatic and not Reaper. Tried Readrums and it too does not allow me to put vst's on the separate instruments. That's too bad. Now I have to use samples and reasamplomatic on each track. Or is there another trick?

Some vstis, albeit for money, allow you to put your different drums on different tracks, like ytonic, or jamstix, and more. I don't remember if there are freebies who do this. Just googled a bit, and I found there are a few synthedit plugins that are with multicore support now. Maybe you could try the nice and free grizzly from majken, find it . At least it is updated, the superb drumatic 2.2 and 3 are not - and maybe it allows your different drums on diff. tracks too - I don't remember. Go have a look if you'd like :)

The only free and non-SE alternative I know of is ShortCircuit 1.1.2 with some free samples or kits floating around on the net. It would give you multiple outputs, multilayers, velocity-switching and synthesis functions like the expensive dedicated drum samplers. It's a fully fledged sampler though and needs some training period.

IMHO... spend some money on Addictive Drums and live happily ever after.:rolleyes:

guys, thanks for your support! I will check it out, perhaps download a demo.