Lightweight Windows program for quick and fun beat making?

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  1. Radio

    Radio Audiosexual

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    Converting 32-bit plug-ins using jBridge (Win)
    • Live Versions: 8.4 and later
    • Operating System: Win
    As of Live 10.1, only 64-bit plug-ins are supported. If you're using 32-bit plug-ins, you'll need to convert them using a third-party tool like jBridge.

    Ideally, you should install a native 64-bit plug-in version if available. Converted plug-ins are not as stable as native 64-bit versions.

    Plug-in bridging guide
     
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    You don't need to install these plugins, there is no VST3 support. what do you mean by stripped down or in other words what annoys you about the DAWs, too big - too much data? It's pretty fast and has short loading times and looks refreshingly different. It has few menus. I once installed it only for 32-bit plugins because my directory was so big that I always had to search endlessly.
     
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    If you use your own samples One Small Clue is a miniscule download. There are samples to download but you don't have to. 16 pads with layers, a rudimentary edit window and other little tidbits. You can also reskin it yourself and make it your own. I did.

    https://www.onesmallclue.com/
     
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    this description sounds like magix (sony/sonic foundry) acid, although I haven't used it in 20 years so who knows what the new version looks like
     
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    Seems like topic starter is looking for a simple workflow, maybe not wanting to learn a whole new feature-rich application even though there are good suggestions on such....

    Probably 20 years too late as a tone of drumboxes were prevalent then, I could spend all day listing them, one that was liked in the day was 'HotStepper' which was initially commercial then set free.... Yeah, old but we are talking drums here, tap, tap taparoo-

    Download from this page-

    https://web.archive.org/web/20030723005931/http://hotstepper.de/

    Original page when it was commercial-

    https://web.archive.org/web/20010516215931/http://hotstepper.de/

    Hitsquad Review-

    https://web.archive.org/web/20010807200025/http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/news/262/#body


    BTW this was created by Chris Kinife (mispelled surely) the one who made the SIR Reverb...

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    What others said about trackers is true especially when you come up against the wall on odd rhythms that are not thought of in 'Drum Grids' done by others... I think Skale Tracker is the fastest because you can quickly load an AKAI drumkit & get going with it with less crap in the compared to say renoise & openMPT & it sounds just as good as renoise (have run tests) plus one can export all the way up to 32bit float whole song of just drums or each track separate....

    I gotta thread here-

    https://warmplace.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6601

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    There are others as well...
     
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