Tuning Drums to Key of song

[Shaka Rayford]

*Please* Add a way to easily tune Drums to the...

*Please*

Add a way to easily tune Drums to the key of the song you are working on. The drums are almost always out of key. We know that that clash continues to be the major fight to get the drums to sit well in the song mix.

And option to set the key and scale the drums automatically adjusting would be amazing and a FIRST in all drum programs. This should be extremely easy to do. Audio does it. Midi libraries do it, sample libraries do it and this in essence is a sample library so I would think this is possible. This could be added in a immediate update. Life saving!

Just saying

• This topic was modified 5 years, 6 months ago by Shaka Rayford.

*Please*

Add a way to easily tune Drums to the key of the song you are working on. The drums are almost always out of key. We know that that clash continues to be the major fight to get the drums to sit well in the song mix.

And option to set the key and scale the drums automatically adjusting would be amazing and a FIRST in all drum programs. This should be extremely easy to do. Audio does it. Midi libraries do it, sample libraries do it and this in essence is a sample library so I would think this is possible. This could be added in a immediate update. Life saving!

Just saying

• This topic was modified 5 years, 6 months ago by Shaka Rayford.

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[wigglymilk]

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mizarsix wrote:

There is a reason that drum skins are tunable, and why drummers of all genres and skill levels aspire to pitch correct them in the analogue world. If they were merely “percussive”, that wouldn’t be an option. Tuning plugins would not recognize them as melodic otherwise. I’ve also heard enough songs where the way certain drums were tuned affect the overall chord played in that song (Porcupine Tree – Blind House, for one). It makes perfect sense for Toontrack to incorporate a tool to determine the current tuning of surfaces that can be pitched. Unless I am mistaken, the whole point of plugins like SD2/3 is to create as real an experience as possible. It only makes sense, in this digital age, that we can come to that result in a more convenient way…

Yes, I concur. Why not provide them pre-tuned given that SD3 has the capacity to tune them? Most likely because doing so would cost money and time.

[guitarmanweiss]

Would still love this feature to be implemented.

[KFrische]

Agreed.   This is a must have feature and I’m surprised this feature request has been ignored and/or downplayed in value.

The sample library platforms continue to grow in drum sample/groove/etc. offerings and all of them offer this as standard.  In fact, without this feature I will probably start migrating sound dev to sample only drum kit systems like Kontakt 8 and use these with readily available grooves.

Contrary to some opinions, these samples aren’t just EDM type sounds, they are real drum sounds as well.

The target:  Allow full drum kits (all instruments as part of current kit focus) to be tuned to key of song.

Update or become irrelevant is my thinking.

• This post was modified 6 days, 13 hours ago by KFrische.

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