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Posted by villus on Nov-29-2005 20:43:

Midi drumloops in cubase

Hi..
i'm new to production so please be easy on me ...lol.is creating a drumloop in one channel is the correct and pro way of doing things? or should the best way is to separate the kicks, snares, hh, etc into different channels in cubase?

i also want to know how to add more power to my drums?...so far i'm using absynth V1.0 and dont have anything else.

would i have to use compression in the cubase mixer? and if i make my drumloop in one channel would compression affect all my percussion?

soz bout all the questions.

thanks in advance 8-D

Posted by Bedlam-UK on Nov-30-2005 01:39:

What I do is create a Midi track for the drums if you use a midi drum instrument or create seperate audio tracks(channels) if you use sample based drums or a vsti with multiple outputs for each drum.

Add any effects to each drum track(channel) then Route all your drum tracks(channels) to a group channel and add compression to the group channel.

Posted by RichieV on Nov-30-2005 02:23:

for dance music , i think it will be more efficient to make everything have its own channel. That way you can copy and paste alot easier.

Posted by TVG on Nov-30-2005 02:59:

Yeah, that is what I do.

Posted by pho mo on Nov-30-2005 04:16:

I'd recommend using a sampler like battery. Then when setting up your samples you can also assign each one to a different output channel (e.g. mono for kicks) or channels (e.g. stereo fx samples), and perform general mixing inside battery.

Then in the cubase audio mixer you've got each percussion part assigned to its own channel and you can mix / effect them any way you want.

As Bedlam-UK says, you'll probably want to set up groups of channels too, for compressing parts together. You can group them either inside Battery or in Cubase (I find it much easier to just use Battery)

But yeah in general, you want to keep control over each part as much as possible. Routing all drum samples to one audio channel will make it hard to mix properly.

Posted by davemolina on Nov-30-2005 05:11:

Do you find yourselves running out of stereo channels when you assign your drums to them?

I can see putting cymbals and random flavoring noises in stero channels, but do you really need to put kicks and snares there?

I'm a noob too so I have lots of questions and I'm slowly making my way through the manual. Thanks for the tips so far guys.

Posted by TVG on Nov-30-2005 05:35:

Nope I never run out of channels in battery. You should assign everything that should be in mono to the mono channels (kick, snare etc.)