Anyone used Melodyne for drum quantizing?

[Damian B]

I noticed Melodyne has a "percussive" mode, and has a setting for quantizing, has anyone ever tried it on drums?

 

[Ermz]

It can't do grouped multitracks like BD can, right? That was my impression. It's only one track at a time. The plug-in anyway.

 

[Damian B]

Yeah I think that's the case, I don't have protools though so BD isn't an option, I use reaper. I don't know, that might be pretty CPU intensive on a bunch of drums.... anyone else??

 

[mpigott]

The percussion mode is useful for doing audio to midi conversion within the melodyne program. Dont know if the function exists in the plugin, but the standalone audio to midi works great

 

[The-Zeronaut]

i think you can do it with reaper.

http://www.cockos.com/wiki/index.php/Tutorial_10_-_Semi_Automatic_Drum_Editing

http://www.cockos.com/wiki/index.php/Tutorial_11_-_Semi_Automatic_Drum_Editing_Update

 

[AudioGeekZine]

I do Beat Detective for $50/Song ($25 for Sneap Forum members)

 

[Ermz]

You don't use Elastic Audio anymore?

 

[AudioGeekZine]

I had some tracks that EA just sounded horrible on, before quantizing, just having it active made the cymbals choppy. Tempo was like 210, skater punk stuff, so I bought Music Production Toolkit 2, and I'll probably do everything with Beat Detective now.
I prefer EA for the workflow, but BD sounds way better. BD also is a pain in the ass because of all the fade files, some songs have over 10,000 fade files and region edits, the PC starts to get really slow 3/4 through the song.
If I got 10K RPM drives it might not be so bad.
BD is a pain in the ass, not fun, but sounds better.

 

[Ermz]

Yeah, you have to consolidate as you go man. That's the only solution short of running a mega RAID 0 array and spacing out your files across multiple drives.

 

[C_F_H_13]

I had some tracks that EA just sounded horrible on, before quantizing, just having it active made the cymbals choppy. Tempo was like 210, skater punk stuff, so I bought Music Production Toolkit 2, and I'll probably do everything with Beat Detective now.
I prefer EA for the workflow, but BD sounds way better. BD also is a pain in the ass because of all the fade files, some songs have over 10,000 fade files and region edits, the PC starts to get really slow 3/4 through the song.
If I got 10K RPM drives it might not be so bad.
BD is a pain in the ass, not fun, but sounds better.

I feel your pain man. Whenever I'm doing BD, I always remove unused regions every section or so. It'll help with that slow down stuff....not as much as conso, but it'll help.

I use BD whenever I can, but some drummers are so bad I have to use EA....oh well.

 

[Moonlight_Seeker]

I did some drum editing with melodyne. It was nice. You cannot edit all tracks at the same time and once I uploaded them all my computer got slower. But the music I work on usually has been composed on midi files so I upload the midi file as a tempo track, open the bass drum track for example, quantize and voila! And since all tracks are "sheeps" to the "wolf" tempo track I edit one track at the time and it's all nice.