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Posted on Feb 19, 2010 10:59 pm
jnssingularity
Member Since: Feb 19, 2010
I am looking to record drum tracks from my electronic drum kit not program them or sample paste them in but play the whole song in for backing tracks then quantize and add a count in click track and save them as a music file to have backing drum tracks with just the push of a play button.
Also I don't want get a computer engineering degree to do this. Maybe I am nieve but what I wan't to do doesn't seem that complex if someone would lead me to the right software.
Any good advice would be greatly appreciated
THANKS!!!
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Feb 19, 2010 11:43 pm So, to clarify. You want to use the sounds from your e drum set, not samples. You want to play all the sounds directly yourself, but quantize them so its closer in time? Personally i think if you can already play pretty well in time, you shouldn't need to quantize them. And if you're playing pretty out of time (its ok, i'm a very shotty drummer lol) it'd be tough to quantize well with hitpoints, unless your drum module output every instrument to a different channel and you had separate tracking for each.
I could be misinterpreting what you want to do here, but i think the best solution for you would be a sampling program. If you're tight on money, pjk pointed out earlier this week a program with 14 kids for like $15 on this crazy sale. Then buy a $40 usb-midi cable. Then you'll need a DAW that can handle midi. The software for much of this is fairly easy to learn. Nothing too complicated about it really. and of course the good folks here can assist with setting it up.
Depends on the quality you need from these tracks. If its just for live backing or something, and you can't spare much money. I'd say recording the stereo output from the drums would sound pretty good as long as you're confident in your abilities as a drummer.
Feb 20, 2010 01:42 am Like Fragile said, I am not 100% sure what exactly you want to do either. If you want to have 100% on time tracks for drums there are a couple of options.
1.) Is of course, practice practice, practice.
2.) There is a great software out there called EZ Drummer. You can find demo videos for it on Youtube and off their official website.
Not only can you select a wide variety of drum beats and fills, but they are all drum tracks recorded from REAL drum studios with real mics. It also gas this 'humanize' function where it loads all types of sound samples of each drum and mixes them all up so it doesn't sound computerized or robotic.
They have different kits for each style. Metal, Rock, Country, ect. and I think each kit costs about $50 to $75 depending on where you look.
I started out on Ez drummer, and then upgraded to its big brother Superior Drummer 2.0 witch has more options in it. You can find information on all of the products at their official site here:
www.toontrack.com/
Hope this help a bit...
pjkPrince CZAR-mingMember
Since: Apr 08, 2004
Feb 20, 2010 01:46 pm I would think you could play the audio from your module to 2 tracks in a PC software and record this, then you would have an audio track that you can play anywhere. But,
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play the whole song in for backing tracks then quantize You say you'd like to quantize it. If you want to quantize it, it still has to be MIDI. If you record the drum playing as MIDI, then you should be able to quantize it, then export / render it as audio, then you can play it where-ever, like above.
If you're looking for just some software to do the recording, Reaper is a free-to-try shareware, which is fully functional. Very good for audio. www.reaper.fm. This DAW will record either audio, MIDI hits, or both. Recording the MIDI will require you to have some sort of program to play back from, as MIDI only contains the parameters for hits, not the actual audio itself.
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Also I don't want get a computer engineering degree to do this
Agree, but, the best person to help you out is you. Knowing what you're working with, and what you want, and how to make it happen is / can be a large undertaking. There may be a lot of options, but it's kinda par for the course.
