Editing tripplet drums in Nuendo

[Curran]

Okay I have a major fucking hang up with triplets!!!! I have a drum performance that was recorded in nuendo at 196BPM with a triplet klik. the song parts are all triplet and I cannot edit it properly. I need some advice on how to get this FUCKING thing pulled together so i can get it quantized. I THINK the performance is good (my drummer is very solid) BUT I cannot get it to work. I usually only work in straight time 1/4,1/8,1/16 note times and always try to get triplet things to fall on those grids. help me please I am going to kill myself on this song and it cannot suck

 

[Noumenon]

why not change the grid to triplets?

 

[joeymusicguy]

triplets in modern day metal are not actually triplets

unless its a trip-ah-let beat

if its just like black dahlia triplets, they're just 3 16th notes, the 4th is left out as a rest

so you have

16th note, 16th note, 16th note, 16th rest

as one triplet

if its an actual triplet, like a pirate beat
then you have to switch to 8th or 16th / triplet mode

just depends on what kind

 

[Curran]

right BUT the grid still reads and only shows striaght grid lines it does not show tripplet grid lines. and it is triplet stuff my drummer has told me so it does not quantize at stright 8th or 16th notes. and so it looks totaly fucked and off of the grid can you change the grid lines in nuendo I can't find out how

 

[Curran]

HELP BUMP

 

[-Gavin-]

Are you talking about actual REAL triplets... 3 notes a beat in equal lengths or the maiden gallop which is not a triplet.

 

[sorceron]

i dont know why anyone would confuse a gallop with a triplet. people piss me off when they refer to those as triplets.

 

[JeffTD]

i dont know why anyone would confuse a gallop with a triplet. people piss me off when they refer to those as triplets.

+100000

 

[James Murphy]

is there not an option in Nuendo to to have the grid view show actual triplets? that alone right there would render Nuendo completely unusable as a serious DAW... that's just so basic... i'm sure it must have that functionality.

 

[2dark]

you can change the grid to the desired beat in either the tempo-track (CTRL + T) or the transport windows (F2) under the "click".

But for quantizing you don't need to change the grid (as long as the beat is correct). Just change the quantize option to 8thT, 16thT or what ever you want.

We do a lot of 6/8 and some odd stuff but I always use the method mention above. Never needed to use quantizing though.

 

[joeymusicguy]

Okay I have a major fucking hang up with triplets!!!! I have a drum performance that was recorded in nuendo at 196BPM with a triplet klik. the song parts are all triplet and I cannot edit it properly. I need some advice on how to get this FUCKING thing pulled together so i can get it quantized. I THINK the performance is good (my drummer is very solid) BUT I cannot get it to work. I usually only work in straight time 1/4,1/8,1/16 note times and always try to get triplet things to fall on those grids. help me please I am going to kill myself on this song and it cannot suck

well i use nuendo and i have triplet mode

make sure you're in the Beats and Bars view, and go up to your quantize section of the track view window... there should be a box that lets you select beat, bar, or use quantize(make sure you have use quantize selected), and next to that, the selction for quantize

if you select the triplet one of the 4/8/16/whatever, your grid should change

 

[Genius Gone Insane]

uhhhh....In Nuendo you just select "16th note T" or "8th note T" and you'll get the triplet grid.

That should be your fix unless you are changing the tempo and keeping your hits the same speed, just shortening the number of notes between beats -- and if you are changing the tempo, that's a whole different beast and I don't know if there is a clean way to do that (without actually calculating the new tempo and changing the tempo map).

 

[billcraftmetal15]

uhhhh....In Nuendo you just select "16th note T" or "8th note T" and you'll get the triplet grid.

That should be your fix unless you are changing the tempo and keeping your hits the same speed, just shortening the number of notes between beats -- and if you are changing the tempo, that's a whole different beast and I don't know if there is a clean way to do that (without actually calculating the new tempo and changing the tempo map).

+1 on this. Also don't believe a word your drummer says he's probably wrong. So try and work around with the tempo and grids until the hits fit. Try halving the tempo and see if that works. or divide it by 3 and times it up by 2 that might help. Just things like that, because it will help you subdivide the beats correctly, hopefully. If you can alter the tempo and timebase without affecting your audio that is.

 

[scorpio01169]

uhhhh....In Nuendo you just select "16th note T" or "8th note T" and you'll get the triplet grid.

That should be your fix unless you are changing the tempo and keeping your hits the same speed, just shortening the number of notes between beats -- and if you are changing the tempo, that's a whole different beast and I don't know if there is a clean way to do that (without actually calculating the new tempo and changing the tempo map).

i was just about to say that about tempo change....i tried to do a project where there was a tempo change and for the life of me i couldnt figure it out.