I just started up producing again after a year-long break...
Anyway, I just made the leap from Fruity to Cubase SX and I was wondering... how do you, well, do drums? In FL there was a simple drag-and-drop formula for wavs, as well as a built-in beatslicer.

So my questions are:

1. How does one map wavs in Cubase, or should I get a VST to do this? I've saved up all sorts of wav drumkits over time; is there an easy way to apply them?
2. How do I approach beatslicing? What are the VSTs that will let me do this?


Thanks!

you need a something like, Native Instruments Battery for your drums

theres loads of beat slicers around cant recomend any though

Yes, you'll need a sampler. Decent ones for drums are:

- NI Battery (my personal choice at the moment)
- NI Intakt/Kompakt/Kontakt (Intakt does beatslicing, Kompakt does sampling, Kontakt does both)
- Steinberg HALion
- MOTU MachFive

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As a followup to that question, how do I EQ MIDI tracks? Am I going to need a VST for that, or can I do that somewhere in the mixing panel?

Last edited by armanivespucci on Oct-08-2005 at 21:45

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Originally posted by armanivespucci As a followup to that question, how do I EQ MIDI tracks?

You don't. You can only EQ audio tracks.

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MIDI is only note information, it is no actual audio

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Originally posted by DigiNut You don't. You can only EQ audio tracks.

every MIDI track has its own audio track, so technicly u can EQ a MIDI track..

just solo the MIDI instrument u want to EQ, press F 3 to open the mixer, there u will see which audio track that belongs to the MIDI track, and press the "E" icon, which will display the EQ and etc.

as for drums, u can always import the samples and arrange them in the sequencer, make sure u put the BAR to USE QUANTIZE, then just start importing WAV samples, and arrange them as u want, use the glue function to make BARs for easy arranging.. and the good thing about this way of doing it, that it gives u easy access to put Effects, EQ etc. to each drum track..

atleast this is the way im doing it

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Originally posted by Subtle every MIDI track has its own audio track, so technicly u can EQ a MIDI track..

That's true if the MIDI track is being used as an input to a VST instrument (in which case there may be *several* related audio tracks), but not if it's being routed to an external MIDI device. MIDI is just note and automation data - it cannot be EQed or have any other "effects" put on it.

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as for drums, u can always import the samples and arrange them in the sequencer, make sure u put the BAR to USE QUANTIZE, then just start importing WAV samples, and arrange them as u want, use the glue function to make BARs for easy arranging.. and the good thing about this way of doing it, that it gives u easy access to put Effects, EQ etc. to each drum track..

That's FAR easier to do with a sampler. You can configure Battery or Kontakt to have something like 16 different outputs, so you just put all your kicks on one channel, snares on another, hats on another, etc. and put whatever FX or EQ you need on the individual tracks.

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Am i the only one who arranges drums in audio tracks, sample by sample? each with seperate effects

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Originally posted by gr8ape Am i the only one who arranges drums in audio tracks, sample by sample? each with seperate effects

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Originally posted by gr8ape Am i the only one who arranges drums in audio tracks, sample by sample? each with seperate effects

i do

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Originally posted by gr8ape Am i the only one who arranges drums in audio tracks, sample by sample? each with seperate effects

A lot of psytrance producers use this method when producing psytrance so your not alone. I've heard arguments for both methods. Personally I use NI Battery 2 which I absolutely love and I would highly recommend that you check it out armani. Good luck and you've made a wise decision moving to Cubase. You'll never look back.

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