Adding Drum Samples Using Melodyne & Addictive Drums - Warren Huart: Produce Like A Pro
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Warren shows how he uses Meloydne to generate MIDI from audio and trigger drum samples using Addictive Drums. He then blends in the Addictive Drum samples with the live drums.
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Hey Warren, just wanted to add an extra tip to this already fantastic video! I always pitch the sample i'm adding to the pitch of the drum I'm already using, and I do this before I bounce down the midi instrument track as audio, because pitching it in the sampler almost always sounds better than using a pitch plugin which usually introduces latency and artefacts (especially on drums)! To help me out in locating the pitch, I use Stilwell Audio Schope (high fidelity FFT), which allows me to hone in on frequencies of a sound and see exactly what their pitch is. I locate the pitch of the original drum first, and then pitch the sample in the sampler (before printing to audio) to the same pitch, I feel they blend together better that way, and also makes the track feel tighter as a whole which having tuned instruments does as you know! Quick note - any high quality Frequency Analyser will do. I'm not sponsored by Stillwell audio, just think the plugin very good!
This is the best and fastest way to replace sounds. I've been using this for a long time to replace badly recorded foley.
This was so SO helpful! Thanks a lot, Warren!
this is exactly what i was looking for!! thanks Warren!!
greetings from Concepción, Chile..
Your channel has changed my life! Thank you for being a great teacher!
Hi Alex Skyles you are very kind indeed! I really appreciate it! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
Thank you for all that crazy amount of information!
Learned a lot from this. Thank you for sharing your process. :)
GREAT TUTORIAL
Melodyne is on my wish list fer sure, thanks for an extremely useful, practical and detailed video.
Wow Paul Bryson that's very kind of you!! I really appreciate it! Have a marvelous time recording, many thanks Warren
Another brilliant tutorial video, Warren! You are the man! \o/
Hi josh abrams thanks very much for the encouragement I really appreciate it! Have a marvelous time recording, many thanks! Warren
I know I have e-mailed you about how awesome you and your videos are but I just wanted to say it again. This along with the beat detective video has completely changed the one thing I hated about mixing... DRUMS. I've been playing around with both for a few weeks in the studio and am stoked that a 3 hour in time, not bad sounding drum track now takes 45 minutes to an hour and sounds pumping! I had my first iTunes/CD Single release with a band the other day using most of the techniques you've taught me!
Thanks so much Warren!
Kaleb
Hi +Kaleb Treacy Aw shucks!! You Rock!! Thanks very much for your kind words I really appreciate it! I'm so glad to be able to help! Congrats on your release!! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
hi, thanks for the videos, watching this from Chile
Hi SU ÁNIMA ÁNIMA thanks very much for watching! I appreciate the kind words. Have a marvelous time recording, many thanks Warren
I certainly like the enhanced sound with the layered AD2. I just got Drum Replacer in Sonar Platinum which simplifies this process, but I really appreciated watching you walk through your methods and steps.
Thanks. Another very useful tutorial.
Michael
Hi Michael Parson-McNamara thanks for watching and commenting! I'd be interested to see how the Sonar version works! Have a marvelous time recording, many thanks Warren
Wow thanks Michael Parson-McNamara I really appreciate it! I will check them all out. Have a marvelous time recording, many thanks! Warren
Hey Warren, I think it's *great* that you are sharing hard won techniques via PLAP. As an option - check out Massey DRT which offers a very good workflow in this vein and it's pretty fast too, consolidating a few steps etc...
I get asked a lot how I create MIDI information using Melodyne and then use it to trigger Addictive Drums, so here is a video explaining it! Please let me know what you think! Many thanks Warren
Produce Like A Pro sweet channel dude, wanted to recommend you this as i do this for every song and the process is about a minute..this will work about 15x faster can do midi and audio triggers and save you time .. www.masseyplugins.com/plugins/drt
Hi Jake Antelis Thanks for the comment! I'm going to check out the plug in but a quick question though the MIDI only takes around a minute to do, where does it save time? I'm not going to change using addictive as I have all the sounds loading in I need plus I love the interface, tuning the drums, distortion EQ etc. Many thanks! Have a marvelous time recording, many thanks Warren
It look interesting Jake Antelis I'll see if they will give me a demo to try! Thanks for the tip! Have a marvelous time recording, many thanks Warren
Produce Like A Pro addictive is dope so i'm just referring to the melodyne part for getting the midi/hits but DRT is super accurate in making placeholder triggers ( and can be used to put in real sounds if you wish as well)
Great Jake Antelis! I'm definitely going to try out the Massey plug in! Have a marvelous time recording, many thanks! Warren
Great stuff as usual. I had AD1 and just upgraded to AD2 - I love it. Keep up the good work, Warren.
Hi Jed Wunderli thanks for commenting! Great, yes I love Addictive Drums, great software! Have a marvelous time recording, many thanks Warren
Thanks for this video, super helpful. I watched b/c I was wondering if there was an improvement over my workflow for this same task, which is Massey DRT + EZ Drummer. I've used this combo for years to great success but recently have gotten frustrated over the inaccuracies (extra hits) in DRT. For a free plugin it is AMAZING, but seems like no matter how much I tweak it I always get extra notes that have to be laboriously taken out. I may try Melodyne - unless anyone has any recs on a free option. Thanks again!
Have you tried Massey DRT? It has a lot of these tools built in and you can easily export as a midi file right inside protools. Thanks for the videos, this was the first one where I actually knew something! Ha.
Wonderful
This is a great video. Using trigger is another way to make all of this even easier, it seems to me. I used to do this manually by tabing to transient, but life is much better now!
Hi Chad Mauldin thanks for the comment. Yes I've tabbed to transient myself many times and sometimes I still! But yes capturing the MIDI and then triggering the sounds is definitely a much better way of going! Have a marvelous time recording, many thanks Warren
Hi, Warren, thanks for sharing your knowledge. I have a question, hope you can help me. How do you make the samples to follow the same arrangement of the live recording? I just can't find info about it, is it a plugin being triggered by the live recording? and when you have the samples audio clips, how do you do it? Thanks again.
Hey thanks for these vidz! Just saw your interview with Dave Pensado, brilliant! I think the 2 most impactful mixing practices for me are a) turn everything down and b) have a sparser instrumentation, which reduces sound clash and focus on making those fewer sounds sound good. Love your channel , thanks man!
Hi +TheDementians Thanks very much!! Yes Dave rules!! Have a marvellous time recording and mixing, many thanks Warren
This rules! I tried the Melodyne 'export audio' as MIDI a few years ago but got frustrated because it didn't line up with the audio track in PT.
That, and all those extra notes from the track bleed. Thank you for showing how to get rid of those.
You can also just make Instrument tracks and do the MIDI editing there, instead of making MIDI tracks/editing notes/making Instrument tracks.
Can't wait to try again. Best to you!
Sweet, thanks for this..
Hi ContraStudio88 great! Glad to help! I've been asked a few times how to do this, so I made this video. Have a marvelous time recording! Many thanks Warren
fantastic! thanks a lot!
Awesome Warren! I use Massey DRT to extract MIDI from drums, its very precise and fast.
Hi Emiliano Marcle thanks for commenting! Yes I will have to compare the Massey DRT to see how accurate it is compared to Melodyne! Have a marvelous time recording, many thanks Warren
Golden.
man i love your videos
Aw shucks thanks lbsmoothmusic I really appreciate it! Have a marvelous time recording, many thanks Warren
Is there any difference between first creating a midi track for the data to then sync to an instrument track or just importing the midi data directly into an instrument track?
Hey Warren, Fantastic video as always! I've never used Melodyne for midi. Looks like a great trick for pulling rhythmic information out of other things as well. Something I look forward to trying. - You mentioned using it for ambience; My room is also too small for an ambient mic to give me anything the overheads aren't. So I tend to re-amp a mono mix of the drum track for ambience. That way, I can play around with whatever room, mic or speaker combination I like, for a 'natural' or effected sound. (Clean studio monitors in a bathroom or through an over-driven guitar amp in a garage).
Hi +Crickett Szeven Great stuff! I love Melodyne for creating MIDI, I find it the most accurate for that! Have a marvellous time recording and mixing, many thanks Warren
For some reason you seem to sound more British in this one! I don't know why! Keep it up my friend!
Hi Warren, would it not be better to use a gate that can output MIDI to trigger Addictive Drums, Ezdrummer, Kontakt etc.?
Ahhh! another effective tutorial . I knew you could do this , I just needed someone to
show me how and here it is. Manually is great but waaaaaay too time consuming IMO.
the last time I did this manually I came out of the studio looking like Gandolf the grey!!!! Like the drums your using Warren , You too are addictive! :)
cheers keep up the good work!
steve
Hi +Steve Wills Haha Fantastic! Thanks very much for your kind words I really appreciate it! So glad to be able to help!! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
Produce Like A Pro great tip..and i have found that DRT is only protools thing so have to find our way through and this is a great one !!!!
Thanks Nazeef Maqsood Have a marvelous time recording, many thanks Warren
Thanks for showing us how you do this.
I think Ableton Live also has the option to convert an audio clip to midi and it then places the midi track into the song already synced to the track. Have you tried this before?
Also, I'd love you to go into more detail around how to select a suitable kick and snare sound from your drum sampler. Do you have a standard set of drum samples you use on everything, or do you select a kick and snare to complement the existing sounds? In this video it looked like you used the one the opened up in the default kit.
How would we do this at home? I don't have a drum room, but do have EZ Drummer and BFD so I'll use those plugins for my main drum sounds. If I was to look to add an extra kick sound, how would I go about selecting the sound? What sound qualities would I look for. Would I solo the two tracks and play them together until something sounded right? And would I eq that second sample any differently? The same applies if I was using a drum loop in Ableton. If I extracted that audio to midi and wanted to add another kick sound, what should I be listening for?
Thanks so much for these videos. I'm learning a lot from them.
Hi from Australia.
Allan
Hi strictlyguitartv Thanks for the great comment! I have to get more in depth with Ableton Live, it sounds like there's many great tricks in that DAW. In Addictive I select close sounding drums to the drums recorded, then use the pitch control to match them close, I always want them to be just a little bit more aggressive then the actual recorded drums and yes I have the default drums quite often, I really like the sounds they supply in the software itself. Have a marvelous time recording, many thanks! Warren
Great vid!
Question: Is there a specific reason you sent the kick and snare to stereo tracks? I usually send them to mono tracks. Is there a difference?
Hi +Dean Giroir Great question! The main kick and snare are mono, as recorded, the Addictive Kick and Snare are stereo as they have ambience printed on them as well! Thanks very much I really appreciate it! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
Hi Warren and All.
Is there a reason you can't just leave it as a midi track, that way you can adjust the velocity of hits later on rather than automate volume? Or is this so you have a visual guide to the phasing between the tracks?
Also can you adjust the trigger sample once converted to audio? I assume not.
Hi warren think you so much for your videos ..you're a great inspiration., im a logic x user and i can't seem to be able to find a way to do the "snap to transient" process..any recommendation's
? thanks once again
+Richard Akuffo I'm in the same boat with Logic 9. Been looking for this feature for a while. I found something similar using the sample editor but it's been so long I can't even remember how to do that. I know Slate Trigger has a midi feature that bypasses the Melodyne step, which I've used in the past.
Hi Warren! As always, great video about a very interesting process that I'll definitely use. There's one thing you didn't talk about though, that I'd be interested in.
How do you add you own samples on top of existing drums?
Because for those I guess you can't be using Addictive, and so you can't use the MIDI info you created with Melodyne, right? Do you place them by hand? And if so, how do you deal with velocity?
Thank you as ever, have a wonderful day!
H+Vermoot I Great question! I do both! I place some by hand and also I use addictive! Have a marvellous time recording and mixing, many thanks Warren
Great stuff! As a Cubase user this functionality is built into Variaudio so I don't need a separate plugin like Melodyne. And even cooler is once the midi is created I can just click a "render in place' function and it prints the VST to an audio track automatically.
Hi Derek Whitaker wow that's incredible! I haven't used cubase for a few years, I didn't realize they had improved that much! Have a marvelous time recording, many thanks Warren
Derek Whitaker i use cubase 8 and yes, you can the do same thing as warren for under one minute and within one window in cubase. we have come a long way!
Thanks warren for taking the time to teach and learn ;)
Hi imaginarytube great! Glad to see there are other options. Is it accurate though? I'm only wondering because I'm working on a 3 hour live show for a DVD release and the drum samples were put it by an editor using Cubase and are really inconsistent. I found it easier to redo them than correct the phase, the flams and the miss hits. Have a marvelous time recording, many thanks Warren
Hi guys +Derek Whitaker imaginarytube Michael Parson-McNamara in Pro Tools for about 10 years they've had 'Soundreplacer' which I believe is very close to the Cubase and Sonar versions, it's quick and easy to use, but I stopped using it because I wasn't getting the accuracy I needed. After talking to a lot other Producers/Engineers and Mixers I found that most of my contemporaries were doing this method or at least a version of it. I have been using for a few years now I can tell you it's definitely the most accurate method I've come across. I'd like to see what the Sonar one does, I do unfortunately have experience of correcting the Cubase one (I now recall a previous Engineer of mine who used Cubase for sample placement) as well as a current 3 hour long live session that I am redoing the drums on. I would love to know a little bit more about the Sonar version Michael Parson-McNamara I am always trying to get better and better! Thanks guys for your input I really appreciate it! Have a marvelous time recording, many thanks Warren.
Produce Like A Pro I wonder what version they used? The midi replacement function in Variaudio has been around for the last 4 versions on Cubase. It was rough at first but is pretty decent now in version 8, especially how it interprets the dynamics. I've tried it against Melodyne and they seem to go back and forth by each version as to which one works better. Plus I really like the VST Expression tech which makes it incredibly easy to fine tune any midi parameter very quickly for each note.
Hello there.. 1st of all .. Huge Fan , i have a question ... iv notice when you reversed the polarity and stuff to the sample.. i still heard as if the Actual Snare drum wasen't sync with the Sample.. I dont know how to explain myself but iv gone through the same problem at my studio.. where i can't get the sample and the snare to sound as One Solid Hit!.. can u please help me?..
Hi +jonathan garcia Thanks for the great question! Sometimes I will take the sample and manipulate it so the phase/polarity is great and matches the original snare! I hope that helps? Have a marvelous time recording, many thanks Warren
Forgive me for I am new to recording. What is the reason for printing MIDI tracks to audio tracks?
hi Warren
thank you so much for the lessons you are giving. there is a lot of stuff in the internet but you are giving a way some true knowledge and experience, god bless you.
i am using cubase and ez drummer. i find that the best way to use samples with cubase is with vst instrument groove agent 4 se i just put the sample on the pads. assign them to the kicks or snares and select multiple output for each pad. i create the track in ez drummer all in midi ( i dont have a drumm kit in my studio) and groove agent just follow a long. i dont know if it the best way to do it but that what i came up whith wright know. i was thinking to crossgrade to soperior drummr to get better sounds but right know i think i will stay whith the the samples and see and heare how it works.
i am intersting in arranging and more from the musical side of things. how do you start a project? choose the tempo, the fil, the groove, the instruments? what are your first steps? i strongly feel that the decisions that you do in this early has a huge significance of how the song will be heard in the end. and there is always the that thought i could have done it in different way which can lead you to a lot of trying and wasting time. how do you deal with that?
and one last question you talked a couple of times of puting one guitar on the right and the reverb on the left and vice versa.. you did’nt mention it but do you do some kind of doubelling, and if yes how? is it real or fake? you dont use the same guitar? or maby you do.
thank you so much i am beginning my way in my home studio and just love your videos and i watch them all the time.
take care
assaf
Hi אסף ליבוביץ' Thanks for the great questions! I like to do pre pro with the artist, get the tempo, key and arrangement finalised before starting to record. I like to (when I'm producing) do real doubles. When I'm mixing other peoples songs I might have to build a double to get the width for mixing. Thanks very much for your kind words I really appreciate it! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
Wow. Does Pro Tools still require doing so much to make midi out of audio to use with Drum sequencers? Cubase does this so much easier as well.
I am going to have to try your technique here. I am a fan of using Melodyne for stuff like this...
Typically, when I do similar I just use Slate Trigger. Down in the left corner there is a "MIDI CAPTURE" Section with two buttons - Drag on Track and Clear Buffer. So once you get the detail set up, you can clear the buffer, play the song and capture the drum part. After it is captured, you just click on the "Drag on track" button to a MIDI track (or instrument track).
The MIDI part that you drag out always starts from 0 on the time line in Pro Tools (which took me a while to realize) so it is really easy to get the captured MIDI in sync with your original tracks.
On a side note, I just discovered you from Pensados Place place a couple weeks ago, and since then I have been watching your stuff non stop (I am just now getting to this one). Marvelous stuff here... I had actually felt kind of stagnate with new tips until now... Thank you sooo much!
Hi +Alex Wilson Thanks for the comment! Yes I'm going to dive into Slate Trigger very soon! Excited to et to try it! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
+Produce Like A Pro Have you gotten into Trigger yet? I purchased it late last year and have messed around a bit with it. Seems to work quite well if you don't have faster, more intricate hits that you're triggering. Also I'm REALLY loving the samples from That Sound (Nashville guys). They include Trigger presets with their sample packs. But truthfully, I record most drum parts in from my Roland V-drum kit through various Toontrack libraries and that gives me the best result. I absolutely love Toontrack drum libraries
Hi Warren. I use the MIDI Editor to fix all the velocity adjustments and flams and everything regarding to expressions and I print the samples then. What's the difference between that process and using Melodyne? What's the benefit of using Melodyne instead of the MIDI Editor? Thx for your great tutorials as always.
Hi James Creek thanks for the great question and the compliment! I really appreciate it! I only use Melodyne to create the MIDI. I also edit the MIDI information using Pro Tools MIDI Editor. Have a marvelous time recording, many thanks Warren
Produce Like A Pro You're always so kind. Thx Warren.
Hi James Creek of course, always glad to help! Have a marvelous time recording! Many thanks Warren
is it possible to do this realtime with melodyne?
Does anyone know how to do this in Logic Pro X? Thanks.
Hey Warren! Wouldn't it be easier to use a program like Slate Drum Trigger? It seems (from watching vids) that the program does all this automatically for you. I am currently doing everything manually pasting, but thought of picking up the Slate plug in.
Hi Ryan Masse I like to have the MIDI to edit, with all of the software that creates the trigger information in the background so you can't edit it, I tend to spend time cleaning up. If you watch my steps on the MIDI track you can see how I can quickly clean it up. Everyone has their own way of working but I like being able to have the MIDI which I can edit and also use for other sounds. Have a marvelous time recording, many thanks Warren
wow..I was searching for this. I was just mixing your song "Good Loving", and there is 100 tracks, with lots of different versions of same instrument...Right now I dont know anymore what to do..to blend Samples with mic recordings, and gate bleeds on live tracks..or just to leave samples... or maybe to leave without gate...damn...so many options...
How do u choose which sounds blend well with the originals? Snare/kick
Hi Tim Nienhuis thanks for the great question. I audition the sounds, get something close to the original and then tune them in Addictive Drums. Have a marvelous time recording, many thanks Warren
I use Samplitute Pro 2 as my DAW. Yesterday I learnt how to make a midi track from an audio track using the program. To print the track the program has a bounce feature. I solo the track and the program will only bounce that track. It can add it to the project window or to a new window/file.
My question is, does PT have that feature too so that you don't have to re-record the tracks?
Hi Ronny George that's a great question! Pro Tools can do exactly the same thing. Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
Hello Warren, do you often mix drums without samples or mainly samples all of the time? Thanks
Hi Keegan, Great question! It depends on the song! Have a marvellous time recording and mixing, many thanks Warren
Hi Warren. Found myself watching this old video and wondered if anyone has recommended Addictive Trigger to you? I see people suggesting Slate Trigger, but if you're already familiar with Addictive Drums you should try Addictive Trigger. Seems like it'd work better for you workflow wise, as you could skip the whole Melodyne part, and not have to refine the Midi information it generates either! Thanks again Warren.
Hi +Simon Green Thanks for the comment! I haven't tried the Addictive Trigger yet, I just got the Slate Trigger and I'm going to give that a try as well! Have a marvellous time recording and mixing, many thanks Warren
everytime I try this, my Midi files are longer than the track and can never line them up?
Hello Warren
I use a Mackie 32-08 and I send the 8 bus to the 8 line in of my i/o so I can use any of my 32 channels, So from my 8 sub I use 1 for kick, 2 for snare, 1 for Hat, 2 in stereo for toms and 2 in stereo for overheads. So no control on the individual’s toms and only 1 kick so I use drums/samples replacement if I need something more for the kick … How would you set it up?
Hi +Michel Doucet Great question! Honestly I try never to record more than a rack and a floor! Very few professional session players bring more than one rack and one floor! I've recorded Kenny Aronoff several times and we usually just use the one rack and floor, Victor Indrizzo, Blair Sinta etc. I would highly recommend reducing the toms and that will solve the problem! In my studio I have my '64 Ludwig Kit set up with a single rack and a floor only. I hop e that helps! Thanks very much I really appreciate it! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
+Produce Like A Pro Can you tell me what is a rack and a floor ? I'm french so I'm not familiar with some English and I wanna be sure to understand perfectly your advice
Is it like just 2 overheads and one kick ?
Hi +Michel Doucet The Rack Tom and Floor Tom. I am suggesting that the drummer use only two toms not three when using minimal amounts of mics. Does that much sense? Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
OK cool thanks ...
What are your thoughts on doing this automatically with Slate's Trigger 2?
Hi Michael Briggs thanks for the comment! I have only used the Slate Trigger stuff a couple of times, I'll ask around and see who likes it! Thanks for pointing that out! Can you edit the MIDI trigger points, I need that. Have a marvelous time recording, many thanks! Warren
+Produce Like A Pro You actually can edit the midi with Slates Trigger. Down in the bottom left you have MIDI Capture that captures the data as you play the track. Once you have it set up, you can just drag it out into a MIDI track and then edit as needed.
Is there a particular reason for the bouncing (printing) of the midi into wav? With midi instruments, editing midi (until it is done) is way more easy and natural (in the case of addictive for sure).
H+Jeroen Bax (exm) I always create audio as wave files for mixing, it puts less strain on my cpu! Have a marvellous time recording and mixing, many thanks Warren
+Produce Like A Pro Ah, yeah, thought so. So, if you are writing (producing), you bounce (print) less fast? Like, until your happy with the midi arrangement (in the case of softsynths/vst's)? Or do you use so much in the box, that bouncing is necessary?
The only drawback to these kinds of operations imo is that by the time I get too deep clicking around and perfecting sounds, I've lost some momentum on that creative spark. Then end result of melding the two parts together sounded fantastic though! Great technique for enhancing what may have been missing in the tracking.
Hi joereesemusic thanks for the comment! I don't add this stuff until mixing, I wouldn't let it get in the way of creativity. I like tower focused and fast! Have a marvelous time recording, many thanks Warren
For some reason my midi track is importing at a shorter length then the actual audio file. Sorry if that doesn't make sense. When i import the midi after the melodyne conversion, it only gives me a small section of the original tack.
Hi +Devin Rodarte That's interesting, only part of the MIDI is importing? Have a marvellous time recording and mixing, many thanks Warren
Yes. I'll export the entire consolidated track from protools. Then open it up in Mel and export it as a midi file. Only a portion of the midi file will load when I drop it back into PT.
Thanks for your help!
..... hope you're doing marvelously well.....
Hi Dennis Alvey Haha Yes I am thank you! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
In reaper you can do this in 3 clicks, just add a "audio to midi" plugin on a live track assign the note corresponds to the sample type and route to Addictive drums.... and wallah easy pisy
Wow thats awesome! can you do this in Logic? :)
Hi, +Pmansen I'm sure you! Any logic users here? Have a marvellous time recording and mixing, many thanks Warren
Aw man i am quite excited that you replied! Just also wanted to say thanks so much for uploading these videos! i have learned so much from you! so thank you very much! :)
Hi +Pmansen Aw shucks thanks! Of course! I try to respond as much as possible! I know that everyone here is trying to learn and get better! I want to be able to give back! Have a marvellous time recording and mixing, many thanks Warren
+Pmansen Yeah you can do this even without Melodyne in Logic. There's a feature called "audio to midi". Once you have your midi file you can bring all your notes to the same pitch and use the EXS24 synth or anything else to trigger a sample of your choice from the midi information.
hey warren am not getting the email to finish sign up
Hi Dilla Oniel I'm sorry you didn't receive that email. Please check your spam and if it's not there please email Connor at Connor@spitfiremusic.net and he can help you. Have a marvelous time recording, many thanks Warren
Produce Like A Pro i email you at connor before an it fail
Dilla Oniel sorry typo try Connor@spitfiremusic.net Many thanks Warren
Huge.
Why do configure your samples as stereo files rather than mono files? It makes sense for overheads or room tracks but not for kick or snares.
Hi +Larry Green Music Great question! Those samples also contain the room ambience! Happy New Year! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
This is advanced technique...to complicated for my amateur skills...but i need to try
this was really confusing, it seemed like you went a round about way to just copy your kick and snare. im not sure how you took your kick and snare put it in to melodyne and not get the same kick and snare. isn't that just a copy?
Hi Warren, if you'd see how easy it is to do this in Studio One, you would start to cry :) If you're interested, I could create a small video to demonstrate it for you.
It can really save you a lot of time in the long run, even if you'd only use it for all the Melodyne work.
Hi David Mood I would definitely be interested in seeing what it could do! I like to have control of the MIDI info though, Pro Tools Sound replacer and the Steven Slate one each will still mis trigger so most guys I know use this method to get really accurate results. For me the ultimate quality is more important than saving a few minutes. Thanks for watching and commenting! Have a marvelous time recording, many thanks Warren
Produce Like A Pro Hi Warren, yes you remain in full control over the MIDI, and also of Melodyne. I agree 100% that the greatest accuracy is important. As soon as I have a little time, I'll make a video and e-mail the link to you.
Great David Mood look forward to it! Thanks for watching and commenting! Have a marvelous time recording, many thanks Warren
Produce Like A Pro Hi Warren, have you received the link to my video? I have sent you an e-mail one week ago. Best, David
David Mood Yep. I have Studio One 3 and it seems crazy to go through all this.
I can get the result of this in 3 min with trigger2 and reaper:)
There are two other tricks to get rid of the machine gun effect other then gain which works just as good. Modulating the phase with an impulse automating shape (straight lines that instantly snap to a value or hold points). varietyofsound.wordpress.com/2010/05/07/nastyvcs-released-today/ Free plug in with the feature to change the phase. Also you can do the same type of automation,but with an EQ cut around the fundamental which simulates the attack variations since the fundamental gives us the biggest impression on the attack. You can also move the cut or gain to different frequencies as well as raising the gain or cutting. Doing this with the gain instead is more stable when it comes to phase since the other techniques involve changing the phase as well as using an EQ even if it's a little bit.
Hi blood lord as ever thanks for your input! I really appreciate it, some great tips there! Have a marvelous time recording, many thanks! Warren
Produce Like A Pro Using melodyne for drums is a great idea as well. For my Daw FL studios there is one called NewTone which is like the same thing. I keep forgetting about it will have to use instead of singing and recording for hours trying to get it perfect on beat. Sung for hours till i got dizzy literally lol.
Hi blood lord Thanks, yes I really like Melodyne's MIDI I find it extremely accurate, but I'm open to trying other ones to see if they work as well! Have a marvelous time recording, many thanks! Warren
MIDI in pro tools!!!!
Haha Jerry Mateo yes indeed! Have a marvelous time recording, many thanks! Warren
I always find Drums a problem. It's the only way like you have done.
GREAT TUTORIAL