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[VOLiTiAN]

Wow let us be the first to congratulate you, excellent work, the clip (and you’re previous work) really do deserve the highlight!

Take it easy and fingers crossed it opens some great doors for you!

Regards

David + all the guys @ VOLiTiAN

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[VOLiTiAN]

Hey Scott,

I couldn’t agree more on the learning process certainly being beneficial, and I’m sure toontrack would’ve done extensive market research for future developments and enhanced product offerings, I guess my statement was purely aimed at the fact that people DO seem to crop up wondering how to get deeper or harder hitting kick drums on TMF, and with credit although EZdrummer is much more pre-processed and does save a lot of time, the presets aren’t exactly useful there is a distinctive “plastic” overtone to the EZDDKFH although admittedly i’ve not spent much time using MH’s…

Added to the fact I’ve had access to the presets with reference subs in the equation and been able to see it for myself, I’m not saying it can’t be done, just iterating from experience what others have seen, and given the exponential changes to users requirements as newer mix techniques and tools becomes available figured it was again food for toontrack to chew over if you will

Kind regards

D.

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[VOLiTiAN]

You’re yamaha will most likely put out the midi notes as standard (why would you want to turn them off), so I guess the only issue I can see at the moment is, have you check what channels you’re sending and receiving on?

Does SD default to midi channel 10 when in TT solo?

What channel does the Yamaha module natively transmit on?

Silly question but you’ve connected the MIDI “out” (from the yamaha module) to the MIDI “in” on you’re new interface?

The other question to ask would be, are you able to tell whether superior is receiving notes (i.e. the drums are signalling they are being played) but maybe no sound?

Kind regards

D.

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[VOLiTiAN]

Well rightly so Scott, you shouldn’t have a problem mixing them, but you gotta admit, it seems this question pops up a bit 🙂

Megadedly, I can’t possibly explain all of the stuff here but I would go for a few main pointers and google how to do them 🙂

Firstly for a metal implementation, there’s almost always a parallel drum bus, with normally pretty heavy compression this certainly will aid more power to the vibe of the drums whilst still having the original dynamics alongside (not so much of a nuclear blast mix yuck)

On the kick channel try various distortions/overdrives to give a more “paddy” rather that wood block sound, some will allow you to EQ the range or which the dist is applied (nomad factory make a driver the ADR-25-3)

Also ensure your guitars etc (esp bass) are sidechained off the kick, this will help the other instruments “pump” a bit more with the drums

Finally the kicks seem to want quite a bit of EQ’ing (can’t recommend fab-filter pro-q enough) but if you want a quick audition of the direction the kick might take, it’s always handy to have something like a BBE maximiser on the channel and just A/B

Hope that helps

D.

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[VOLiTiAN]

Wow, like watching a slow-mo golfball being hit, when you watch it like this, you’d be fooled for wondering if any cymbal was made out of metal 🙂

Mmmmm pancakes!

Kind regards

D.

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[VOLiTiAN]

Silly question maybe, but how much have you treated the room you’re in? Rear sub ports, speakers close to walls and a close wall behind the engineer is just begging for standing waves, have you covered room height bass traps etc?

Besides, surely smaller set of speakers is only going to specifically reduce the amplitude of what you’re hearing, it’s not going to make an actual change to your listening environment, and with regards to a port on the front or back given a small space internal reflections are always going to be a problem

Besides isn’t the sign of a good engineer more someone who knows their own gear and perhaps more importantly knows how to overcome it’s foibles? 😛

Kind regards

D.

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[VOLiTiAN]

As always no probs dude, looking forward to hearing the results it helps you produce!

Kind regards

D.

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[VOLiTiAN]

From inside the OS you’re asking for trouble, drivers to be released, assignments of drive letters etc, I would do the same steps but from in the bios buddy 🙂

Just imagine the headache if you find something gets accidentally installed to the wrong….

At least with each environment setup differently and set at bios level you are pretty sure the computer can’t out smart you and do it’s own thing screwing up your neatly laid plans 🙂

Regards

D.

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[VOLiTiAN]

Hey Airhead,

Considering you have separate drives, I wouldn’t even worry about going the dual boot route, as as far as I’m aware that’s more for having 2 OS’s on one drive and then the boot loader/controller basically “hides” or “unhides” the requested boot sector. In that case yes, I would consider creating separate partitions that are hidden when not in use, for example your sample libs.

Spec wise your machine should be a beast! But otherwise there might be a less clumsy way to do it, but if (like me) you’re anal about keeping the music workstation away from anything inc the ‘net at all costs then I would suggest a routine where you have maybe a couple of profiles in the BIOS, one say overclocked games etc, one more focused on keeping the temps and noise down and load those, ideally the profile would contain hard drive info and so you could switch your music OS from disabled to primary boot etc, this has got to be the healthiest way? I’m considering this route myself, as we don’t want to clog the workstation up with editing software etc but we need the horsepower from the machine.

Anyway, hope that helps.

Kind regards

D.

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[VOLiTiAN]

Hi there,

Just out of interest if your soundcard/interface is Asio compatible you shouldn’t need asio4all as it’s usually used in place of older/unsupported chipsets etc, check with your card manufacturer, and also check to see if the motherboard has any specifics issues (if you’re using onboard USB/firewire to connect), you need to ensure plenty of head room on the CPU, (dual core min i would say, esp once you start processing) then after that drop the buffer to around 256k or 192k for about 3-4ms of latency which is normally fine when we’re tracking drums

I would put money on either specifically an ASIO issue, or a part of the system not having enough processing power.

On the note of the headphones, does your card have specific routing options outside of a DAW? might be worth looking into it’s own “monitoring” section, often routing for headphones, extra speakers is located there.

I’m going a bit blind, but hope that helps.

Kind regards

D.

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[VOLiTiAN]

So just looking for people to hand over their riffs?

Surely it would be better to post about what the project involves, how you want to transfer files, what style, lead rhythm etc…

Just a thought

Regards

D.

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[VOLiTiAN]

Hey buddy,

Always happy to help where I can, it’s difficult to say exactly which DAW best suits your needs there are premium ones such as Steinberg Cubase, Logic Audio, Cakewalk Sonar that I’m sure most could recommend aside fromthat there’s a well known freebie called “reaper” that’s very popular aswell although I can’t personally vouch for that one having never used it.

So basically as I understand it you’re using your tascam effectively as your audio interface, except you’re capturing the audio there and then importing to the PC, can the tascam actually be used as an ASIO device? In such a a way that you are still plugged into it but yet the computer is capturing the audio? Either way the best way forward is some sort of interface to be able to connect directly to your laptop then after that choose your DAW.

Most if not all DAW will feature some sort of inline/in window editing which will normally include a specific midi drum editor to be able to visualise the hits over the bars and make adjustments accordingly.

Kind regards

D.

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[VOLiTiAN]

Sorry, I don’t quite understand, do you have a PC at the moment? Either way, what tasks do you want it to be able to handle, how many tracks of audio, are you looking to mix on this setup etc…

Kind regards

D.

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[VOLiTiAN]

Hey buddy,

best of luck, in flames isn’t the easiest of stuff to program on drums, essentially the only advice I can offer (aside from the plethora on google) is that you need to e very aware of accents, knowing when the drummer is “bouncing” off the kit or hitting it like he’s aiming for the floor, either way you need to know the groove the drummer is in, literally and figuritively put yourself in his position, remember you only have 4 limbs and obvious tempo limitations but imagine the beat, and be creative! We’ve surprised our drummer with ideas we’ve come up with exactly because we weren’t drummers and we were messing around with beats, just study the art a bit and understand what’s going on, what kit pieces for certain types of fills etc.

Hope that helps

Kind regards

D.

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[VOLiTiAN]

Hello buddy,

If you want the harsh reality, I think it’s fair to say that adding drums retrospectively isn’t going to make life easy either, there is an inherent groove you follow when recording to drums, it’s all the little details that really get a track to pump or flow, computer programmer or not it’s time to invest in a DAW, it’s a very visual way of being able to lay up your recorded audio alongside midi VSTi’s etc the tascam was never really intended to work this way, you’d punch in an out your takes but with the expectancy your drums would already be there or a click track embedded into all tracks (or some kinda timecode stamp) but if timestretching was need etc then the HDR is not going to cut it, i had a hell of a headache with a VS880 once and vowed never to go back 🙂

Not positive but hope it helps.

Kind regards

D.

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