Drums..electronic that is..

[sidereal]

I'm using the Alesis DM-Pro kit. Very cool once you reprogram it. Everything's worked well except for two areas I haven't been able to figure out: When using it with the Virus plug-in, not all the notes I perform are triggering. Very frustrating, but since you're a 001 user, this probably isn't an issue. The other thing is when I'm changing patches while Pro Tools is running, the DM-Pro freezes up. Very VERY frustrating. What's the benefit of using MIDI if you can't change the patches, you know? May be an OMS issue. I have to admit to being something of a midiot though.... So I've gone back to recording loops as audio until I can get someone to help with these problems.

Having said that, editing the drum parts is very straightforward and setup was a breeze. The quantizing takes some trial and error, but that's to be expected.

[MattStrat]

Is anyone using electronic drums (i.e. Yamaha DTXpress,etc.) to transmit MIDI drum parts into Digi001?? I'm not a drummer but would like to 'pound out' and sequence in the drum parts.
Wondering if anyone is doing this OR has even recorded someone using an electronic kit?

YGR
Matt

[DonaldR]

You're right. It may takes 15 minutes but it worths it since I have more computer resources for editing/recording other parts.

It's also faster after that to record those midi tracks as audio tracks (TD-5 only has L/R outputs) since I can solo only the tracks I want to transfer in PT instead of muting them on the sound module.


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Donald Robidoux
President
Design Relationnel inc.
www3.sympatico.ca/design.relationnel

[DonaldR]

I'm using a Roland TD-5K (sound module + pads) and a real drummer.
I record the midi on one track. I then split each drum piece on different tracks (kick, snare, hi-hat, crash, ride, tom1, tom2, floor) to build a rough mix.

I then record all the midi tracks as audio tracks for mixing.

I achieved good results that way. CPU/disk resources are saved 'til the final mixing so I can record with the smallest buffer and avoid latency as much as possible.


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Donald Robidoux
President
Design Relationnel inc.
www3.sympatico.ca/design.relationnel

[sidereal]

Donald,

When you say 'split each drum piece on different tracks' how exactly are you doing this? Selecting all hi-hat notes (for example), creating a new MIDI track, and then pasting?

Thanks.

[Alex TCH]

I've used Roland TD10 recording MIDI track and then rerecording MIDI to audio splitting tracks - sounded great.Thanks to Roland!

[MattStrat]

Sounds great guys.
Just a fantasy idea of mine.


Matt