Triplets on the drums

First of all, drum notes have no "length" - no matter how long the note is, it just triggers the drum sample.

Second, you shouldn't use the notation editor but the piano roll view. Do you want the whole beat to be in triplets? Select a triplets grid (the ruler icon in the upper right corner of the Editor window) and quantize the drum notes to that grid. If you have triplets in an otherwise straight beat, use the triplets grid only temporarily, select only the three notes and quantize them to that grid, then go back to the straight grid.

Christoph Drösser wrote:
First of all, drum notes have no "length" - no matter how long the note is, it just triggers the drum sample.

Looking at one of the software drum loops, the notes (in graphic view) are of varying lengths. Do you know why that is?

Do you know why that is?

probably to accommodate something like a symbol which would have a longer sound then, for instance, a snare.

something like a symbol which would have a longer sound then, for instance, a snare.

That would make sense but it doesn't seem to be the case. In Classic Rock Beat 01, for instance, the longer notes are the kick and snare (the only cymbals in this one being closed hi-hat). But 80s Pop Beat 08, the same thing. Even the ride cymbal is relatively short.

It just makes me think that the length of a drum note makes some difference. But when lengthen or shorten them I hear no diff.

Ah, I guess it was just how long someone happened to have held the key when recording it, even though all that's needed is a hit to trigger the sound.