MIDI Drum Tracks to Audio Drum Tracks

[setyouranchor]

Once you guys have finished with your programmed drums, will you print them as audio files within the DAW?

Example:
http://smoking-cat.com/tutorial/ISUHD7.mov

What are the advantages of doing this? Will you use it a reference or do anymore editing?

 

[arvoitus]

WHen you print out your audio tracks in your daw you dont overload your CPU.

 

[Sam Bottner]

^this, it applies to all daws

 

[setyouranchor]

Should have realised that haha seems obvious now. Will you just freeze the original midi tracks/busses once you've printed them?

Also, if anyone watched the vid, that seems a very long winded way. He routes the output to aux channels...fine... Then routes the aux to more aux :s for every drum

 

[Sam Bottner]

yeah that seems unnecessary, I personally would just render and if I wasn't satisfied yet, maybe render groups of drums separately

 

[setyouranchor]

Bit of a nooby question, but once I have all my aux channels for each drum, would I then create a master drum bus, which then goes to the stereo main output and send all drums to master drum bus?

 

[narcossintese]

I like to print them because otherwise Kontakt would takes some time to load all the samples everytime I open the project.

 

[setyouranchor]

If all my drums are going to a master drum bus, will that processing still be present when I print the tracks?

 

[setyouranchor]

anyone? ^

 

[ulverine]

If there's processing on the drum bus, yes it will be applied to the printed drum tracks. I.e. Bus compression.

 

[Ionei]

I always print my programmed drums.

My drums go like this.

Drum verb buss
Parallel comp buss
Master drum buss
--- Kick
------Original
------Replaced
--- Snare verb
--- Snare
------Original
------Replaced
--- Toms
------Tom1
------Tom2
------Tom3
--- Cymbals
------ Hats
------ OH
------ Room

So all my drums get sent to the master drum bus(actually, all tracks in a folder, using reaper)
Then from there they get sent to the parallel comp and verb.
I blend sounds a lot, so i need to have most things doubled, one being the original sound from Addictive drums and the other being the sample I'm using.

I rarely print effects to my main drum tracks until I am sure I am happy with whats going on.

 

[setyouranchor]

I always print my programmed drums.

My drums go like this.

Drum verb buss
Parallel comp buss
Master drum buss
--- Kick
------Original
------Replaced
--- Snare verb
--- Snare
------Original
------Replaced
--- Toms
------Tom1
------Tom2
------Tom3
--- Cymbals
------ Hats
------ OH
------ Room

So all my drums get sent to the master drum bus(actually, all tracks in a folder, using reaper)
Then from there they get sent to the parallel comp and verb.
I blend sounds a lot, so i need to have most things doubled, one being the original sound from Addictive drums and the other being the sample I'm using.

I rarely print effects to my main drum tracks until I am sure I am happy with whats going on.

Thanks for the info bro!

Do you use seperate tracks for your original sample and a seperate track for your replaced?
Also, when you print your drums do you print the combined sample? E.g snare

Will you print the original and the replaced as one track or print one original and one replaced track?

If that makes sense

 

[Ionei]

Yep, on separate tracks.
Allows me to have the most flexibility.

 

[Seth Munson]

Been printing drums from kontakt for about 6 months now, it works wonders on my CPU

 

[setyouranchor]

I get a little confused when printing drums aha

Theres the way on the video I posted up there ^ where he sends all the outputs from within Kontakt to spereate audio tracks, hits play and just records the MIDI hits as audio files

 

[Seth Munson]

I dont think I understand your question?

you want to print the drums like the video? cuz I think he explained it pretty well.

 

[setyouranchor]

Yeah I was just asking is that a standard way of printing drums?

Also, will you program all your midi drums on one track (with seperate outputs) then print once you finished mixing/processing them?