Morgan C
MAX LOUD PRESETS¯\(°_o)/¯
How long does it usually take you to edit a whole song? I'd imagine you'd be pretty fast at it by now.
most time efficient way to quantize drums?
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How long does it usually take you to edit a whole song? I'd imagine you'd be pretty fast at it by now.
joeymusicguy
Member
on a good day i can do a song in 2 - 3 hours. it heavily depends on the material and the drummer
some drummers i can "trust", and the song flys by.
if i edit 4 bars and hit play because something looks funny, then chances are i waste 5 minutes messing with those 4 bars
multiply that @ 100 bars and you get around an extra 2 hours of fiddling with poor playing.
if the drummer's good and you're just pocketing him, its only gonna take 2 hours.
Ermz
¯\(°_o)/¯
I use a combination of Beat Detective and manual slipping to get the right feel for the performance. Most of the time I use 70 to 90% strength with quantization, and if the feel is still somewhat wrong, or there has been a misquantize or mistrigger, I will sort it manually. Good drummers take about 1 hour per song once I'm in the swing of things, decent drummers and perhaps more technical songs about 2 hours, and bad drummers and technical songs are 3 hours+ (I'm talking when I have to absolutely reconstruct the beat because the drummer couldn't work out what he was doing).
I'm not crazy enough to do it with Cubase.
I'm not crazy enough to do it with Cubase.
Lasse Lammert
HCAF Blitzkrieg
between 20 mins and 3 hrs depending on the drummer (in both PT and Cubase - Cubase doesn't have iterative quantizing, so it sucks for drumediting IMO)
::XeS::
Member
I use a mix of elastic audio (kick) and beat detective (all the other tracks) for complex and fast stuff, and all BD for simple and slow stuff.
For every section I put the kick on grill with elastic audio and after that I apply BD to my snare tracks (top, bottom and trigger), I check if the transients will go in the right places, I correct the values wrong and I separate/comform/consolidate every tracks (apart kick). If the snare/tom rolls are played very well I put a transiet marker only in the first transient so there are less cuts.
Often I put transient markers for the tom hits in the snare tracks.
For every section I put the kick on grill with elastic audio and after that I apply BD to my snare tracks (top, bottom and trigger), I check if the transients will go in the right places, I correct the values wrong and I separate/comform/consolidate every tracks (apart kick). If the snare/tom rolls are played very well I put a transiet marker only in the first transient so there are less cuts.
Often I put transient markers for the tom hits in the snare tracks.
darthjujuu
Member
any of you guize ever BD'd a drummer that played freehand (no click) and then you manually tempo mapped?? i think this is where i'm shooting myself in the foot
Hey man. I didn't know you were a member on here. I'm glad you cleared this up. I was just relaying what I had heard you do from a couple people I know that recorded with you. the one drummer (settle the sky) said you manually programmed cymbals, and triggered the drums, the other drummer (a plea for purging) said you recorded overheads (which is kinda vague) haha. You do excellent work man. I have always loved your recordings.
