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Drum Tracks / Mapping in Cubase
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| DJChrisB |
I was just working on a track that has been a work-in-progress for quite some time and I am realizing more and more that there is probably a much more efficient way to go about arranging the drums.
Currently, I have one group-track for all of my percussion; but within that group track, I have each item (kick, snare, clap, hat, etc.) in its own track. My reasoning is that I apply different EQ settings, reverb, filters to each of those tracks. But, that method really takes forever and makes it harder to do any sort of real-time pattern editing. I know that it is pretty standard to have the kick be in its own track for the purpose of side-chain compression, but is the rest of this overkill? |
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| mysticalninja |
nope not overkill, i can easily use like 12 seperate tracks of just drums.
i don't usually route them all to a drum channel tho, i usually route the kick and bass to a group, and sometimes maaaaaybe the hats+clap/snare/rest of percussion together. |
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| DJChrisB |
| quote: | Originally posted by mysticalninja
nope not overkill, i can easily use like 12 seperate tracks of just drums. |
Do you generally arrange your drums in one track and break them out later or do you arrange them in 12 separate tracks from the beginning? |
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| mysticalninja |
i always import each drum sample to a different track always always always.
of course you could use a sampler like Battery and then arrange them all in one midi track... but i dunno it seems like a useless extra step to me... and i like seeing all the waveforms of all the samples together and being able to precisely shorten them and add fades and stuff.. i know you can use the ADSRH envelope in battery but you can only see one samples waveform at a time in battery.. i like seeing em all together. |
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| DJChrisB |
| quote: | Originally posted by mysticalninja
of course you could use a sampler like Battery |
That's basically what I currently do because it is easier to do stuff like alter the velocity of the hits. I assume you just use volume automation for this? |
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| mysticalninja |
Yeah ease of velocity change is what Battery users usually say they use it for.
I either volume automation or grab that little blue box on the top middle of the sample and that is the velocity right there. |
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| daeus |
| I use Battery and mostly assign each perc to a different channel, then in Cubase you have a nice layout of your beats for real time editing and if you have a second screen or enough space on your main screen you can tweak all the effects/eq's for each perc aswell, slightly annoying how spaced out they are on the keyboard though, why battery cant assign them to keys all together I dont know. |
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| DigiNut |
| That's fine, I'd just route the kick elsewhere, it's usually several times louder than the other drums and you don't want to compress them together. |
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| daeus |
| Actually I'm sure you could edit which cells are linked to keyboard keys to get them all together...I'm going to check that out after work. |
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