RUDIMENTS: why do the patterns have no name???

It a bit sloppy - not having named patterns.

its so important to save time - improve workflow - that one can tell visually whether a pattern is verse, chorus or fill - or just to be able to recall visually where the pattern one played before was on the pads.

same goes for other PLAY drummers - like 40s Own

As teachers would say - NI - YOU NEED TO DO BETTER!!!

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Jeremy_NI

Hey @d0stenning As others pointed out. Butch Vig Drums is a bit different, coming from a drummer with an idea of song structure. This is not the case for other libraries where the patterns are numbered from 1 to 16 as they're all, well patterns.

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Jeremy_NI

@d0stenning Well, maybe some more explanation what you mean here and which patterns from which instruments and in which context. What's obvious to you is not necessairily what's obvious for others.

BIF

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/236670#Comment_236670

I too am confused about what OP means.

OP, can you give us 2 or 3 examples?

d0stenning

RUDIMENTS patterns have no - meaningful names, just "Pattern 1, Pattern 2… Pattern N"

Whereas for examples in the BUTCH VIG "Patterns" page the pads have sensible names like here

Sunborn

Pattern 1, Pattern 2, etc. are names too… 😉

PoorFellow

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/238156#Comment_238156

RUDIMENTS patterns have no - meaningful names, just "Pattern 1, Pattern 2… Pattern N"

Whereas for examples in the BUTCH VIG "Patterns" page the pads have sensible names like here

From what I can see then there are a lot more variation on the Butch Vig which justifies assigning the names that you made a screenshot of where as the Rudiments are more just pattern variations which would make it a more or less impossible task to use other naming that would make equal sense.

It's probably a whole lot more bad seen from the point of view of most people to use 'naming' that can not be defended or does not make sense to people generally than it is to just name things "Pattern 1, Pattern 2… Pattern N"

Jeremy_NI

d0stenning

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/238239#Comment_238239

Even so - simply in order to remember which patterns one chose - or liked - it would be really helpful for each pattern to actually have unique names. It would also help when one is dragging clips into a DAW because one would be able to more easily identify wherethe MIDI is coning from.

Nobody in their right mind provides - for example synth presets and patches as simply "preset 1,2,3.. etc.."

And in the case of grooves which don't clearly relate in obvious ways to different parts of a song structure they could still be named in other useful ways such as "sparse 1,2,3" "with ride 1,23", etc etc.

Use NAMES - not NUMBERS!!!! its how the creative human mind works!

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