re. quick drums procedure
as you might know, Qtractor pretends to be a generic audio/MIDI sequencer so there's nothing specific to lay out a MIDI drums track from the ground up. You'll have to prepare the nuts and bolts first. THat is to say that a drum track is no different than a regular melodic one, from Qtractor's POV. However there's things you may find of greater help in pursuing what you're asking. I'll leave you with some hints and let you do all the homework :)
MIDI channel 10 is the GM standard for drum tracks; there are good soundfonts (sf2) which also stick with this standard; key tooltip names are then shown as percussion/drum names while doing on the MIDI clip editor (aka piano-roll editor).
having some on your own custom way, you may write and assign a Cakewalk Instrument Definition file (.ins) to any MIDI bus/track/channel--that's the only way you can have your specific key percussion drum names as exactly as you wish, not necessarily sticking to GM layout.
when happy with a certain session track layout, having it all to your liking and work-flow, you can then save it as a session template (.qtt) and opt to mark it as default for all your Qtractor scratch sessions (see View/Options.../Display/New session template option). (*)
-- in the words of Abe Lincoln (allegedly): Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the ax. ;)
re. cannot lock down memory
which are your JACK settings? are you using QjackCtl, the command line or just running OOTB as is? :) the cannot lock down memory seems to be related to lack of real-time and/or mem-lock privileges as demanded by jackd. Please read the JACK FAQ if you have the time :)
HTH
cheers
(*) nb. you can have ANY session file type as your template, be that regular .qtr, .qtt or .qts, .qtz.
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re. quick drums procedure
as you might know, Qtractor pretends to be a generic audio/MIDI sequencer so there's nothing specific to lay out a MIDI drums track from the ground up. You'll have to prepare the nuts and bolts first. THat is to say that a drum track is no different than a regular melodic one, from Qtractor's POV. However there's things you may find of greater help in pursuing what you're asking. I'll leave you with some hints and let you do all the homework :)
-- in the words of Abe Lincoln (allegedly): Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the ax. ;)
re. cannot lock down memory
which are your JACK settings? are you using QjackCtl, the command line or just running OOTB as is? :) the cannot lock down memory seems to be related to lack of real-time and/or mem-lock privileges as demanded by jackd. Please read the JACK FAQ if you have the time :)
HTH
cheers
(*) nb. you can have ANY session file type as your template, be that regular .qtr, .qtt or .qts, .qtz.