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Programming Drums - Midi or Audio
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mubali
Mubali
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Posted : Mar 5, 2006 17:50
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I use a combination of both. For instance my kick is controlled by a sampler and the same with my standard snares and standard hi hats and quick little one shot percs. For me it's a little less confusing than looking at shitload of little hits that look very confusing if you are zoomed out. However I do record the loops that I make out of them to audio and manipulate them as larger 4-8 bar loops just to save cpu... I also do hatchet drum loops and use those too, so depending on how the loop sounds, it will eventually be in audio. During the contruction phase for me, if I want to change a part, it's a lot easier for me to just pull up the midi, change it and bounce it again. Now if it were all audio, then I'd have to be looking a lot of things that are smaller than the area, which causes me to lose my timing for it...
When it's all said and done it will be audio before the track is finished, usually... but for most of the track, the parts that change semifrequently are usually in midi when it comes to drums.
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sideFXed
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Posted : Mar 5, 2006 18:04
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I couldn't imagine to work with bounced audio. For me it is essential to have full control of lenght, modulation capacities etc etc.
When I think of what it comes down to, I guess everyones gotta chose themself. Just let me guide you to one thought: What about mixing stage, you recognize that one sample you've layed down throughout the whole track (eg kick, hihat, snares) doesn't really cut it. I couldn't think of replacing the sample one by one.
Sure I've read about a shortcut that lets you exchange samples in cubase on the fly. But to be honest, why even bother when it's just a mouseclick away in a sampler?
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OIL
Oil
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Posted : Mar 5, 2006 22:46
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i like the sampling-side in music-production. so i always work with raw audio-samples.
its perfect enough for me 
Each sample has always its very own channel.
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Sound Surgeon
Crater / Mish-kah
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Posted : Mar 5, 2006 23:12
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Programming Drums in audio in cubase, you just use one channel for every sound by itself? (open hihat, snare, c-hat, c-hat2) or bounce them together after you make a loop and squeeze them into 2 channels?
what kind of midi programming vsti's are there? i remember only battert but have never used it
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Get-a-fix
Getafix
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Posted : Mar 6, 2006 03:04
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@Sound Surgeon
I find it better to use one channel per sound that way you can group them together and put effects on the group channel..
For midi there is Battery, kontakt, IK multimedia sample tank etc
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