kongsmoelf Posted October 1, 2007 Share Posted October 1, 2007 Hi. So the question is: How do you make your drums in a song/remix? Cause I have Reason Redrum and a midi keyboard. 1. I could asign the keyboard to a drum sound and play them by myself or 2. I could use Redrum to make them. But again. What do you do? -Smoelfen:< Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hale-Bopp Posted October 1, 2007 Share Posted October 1, 2007 Most of the time, I play the drums live through my MIDI keyboard, which triggers a drum kit that I'll have loaded as a VST in Sonar, and record as I'm performing. I'll do a measure at a time, maybe more, playing the snare and kick alternately, or maybe even perform through most of the song (after having rehearsed it a number of times) and then do any cleaning up that's necessary by mouse. Then I'll go back and do the same with the rest of the kit, such as the hi-hat, toms and cymbals. I'll then do some minimal quantizing if necessary and usually leave most notes as is as far as velocity is concerned, to maintain a human aspect to the performance. I usually clean up any unusual notes that might not have been "hit" the way I want them to sound. Sometimes I'll just perform an entire song on my V-Drum kit via MIDI cables hooked up to my sound card. That works best when I'm looking for the most realistic performance possible, but also it's just a lot of fun. I usually perform to a metronome as I record my performance so that it's easy enough to work with when I go to layer on all my other tracks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suzumebachi Posted October 1, 2007 Share Posted October 1, 2007 i'd say most people here sequence their drums by hand by clicking in each individual drum hit. it's an acquired skill. like everything else in music, it's relatively easy to learn and extremely difficult to master. you can also use a midi keyboard to record your drum tracks, or a midi drum kit, or whatever. like hale-bopp notes, this gives it a little more realistic, human feel. but it also requires more skill to execute. additionally, a very small number of people here record live drums. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnappleMan Posted October 2, 2007 Share Posted October 2, 2007 Mainly I use a MIDI keyboard to trigger the drum sounds from a VST within Cubase. It works pretty well if I do say so myself. It may not be as cool as recording the drums live, or even recording on an electronic drumkit, but playing the drums on a keyboard does give them a little bit of added flair and realism. I suggest you go that route rather than just clicking them in, I was without a keyboard for a while and believe me, being forced to click in each hit is a royal pain in the ass (though I've become a bit of a pro at that as well). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zephyr Posted October 2, 2007 Share Posted October 2, 2007 I sequence by hand and I like it that way, I just don't get the accuracy I like when using a keyboard (even with quantising), I set velocity levels after to achieve a more human performance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kongsmoelf Posted October 29, 2007 Author Share Posted October 29, 2007 Thanks:< I have a new question. Thought I should continue in this drumming thread. What would you recommend of drumming free software. Causs right now I am on a 0$ budget, with no keyboard. I guess I will use Audacity do record the guitar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoffrey Taucer Posted October 29, 2007 Share Posted October 29, 2007 What sequencer are you using? Most commercial sequencers, and even a lot of free ones, can load VSTs. If your program can use VSTs, get sfz and a good drum soundfont or two. I reccomend the ken ardency kit (available on soundfonts.darkesword.com) or ns kit free (available at natural-studios.co.uk) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kongsmoelf Posted October 29, 2007 Author Share Posted October 29, 2007 Oki doki:< (Unfortunally I just remembered that my guitar needs to be active before I can just plug and play trought my soundcard... But thanks. I could use it in the future Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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