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That’s a real shame, that was a valid series of posts and it was just deleted…

Thanks for censorship??

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D.

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[VOLiTiAN]

Firstly, watching that video was like watching a “how not to” of performance, the clothes and persona’s are just classic!

Anyway it’s a hybrid electronic kit for sure, there are acoustic kit piece there by the looks of it.

I think it’s one of the smaller V-drum setups, like the HD or the TD3 is it?

Either way, awesome music, I’ll definitely be favouriting, can’t forget these rare gems 😛

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D.

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[VOLiTiAN]

If you drag and drop the MIDI groove into your host and then edit that imported MIDI you should see the velocities (the hit intensity) of each of the notes.

Top of my head the thing I can think of is your host has a default input value for the MIDI notes i.e. something like 90 or 100 when some of those nice hard hit beats tend to have more of an average velocity of say 110/115.

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D.

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[VOLiTiAN]

Ah yeah, it’s all okay pick on us, we’re fine 🙂

Apologies my humour is bordering on hygroscopic it’s that dry, I just logged onto the toontrack forum one morning and I was quite taken aback.

and to try and redeem ourselves, something for a bit of a chuckle….

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4OCxQhPm58

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D.

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[VOLiTiAN]

Actually sorry slight amendment, it seems that the stereo imaging seems to be hidden a bit more in the high freq ranges, when those are accentuated the mix opens up more.

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D.

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Hi Scott,

Sorry to play devils advocate but…

Out of interest, what constitutes a mix which is borderline too loud?

How are you judging the volume, and what’s negative about it in your opinion?

@ Monsterhulk, there’s some really cool riffs and song structures going on there, it’s a touch muddy. I think the guitars (or maybe the mix) could do with some refinement and perhaps a bit more of a stereo image to the mix, also are you using dbglitch for those effects by any chance?

If you are, i’d thoroughly recommend Izotope stutter, it saved us a lot of headache in the long run as you can use a midi input to control the changes.

Kind regards

D.

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[VOLiTiAN]

Ello Cory,

Another lovely mix, gotta agree to a certain extent, it feels like the guitars are lacking just a bit of punch from the low end, and the bass isn’t filling in the gap, but all good stuff as always man!

But it IS great, i’ll let you have a critical bash at our next production hehehe

Kind regards

D.

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Hey buddy,

We tend to send the whole drum bus via an aux send to the parallel compression track, you could quite happily do it individually however we send our pre-fader so as only to compression the original drum sound (we eq the original track aswell)

We found it a touch easier to get the right sound before compression so as to enhance overall sound and besides individual aux sends can be a be tough to balance when trying to get the levels right under compression and normally the parallel compression is pretty heavy (well for us anyway)

We’re working on a new template which should be finished in a couple of days, so of the processing can be done outboard, we’ll upload a link and see what you guys think.

Kind regards

David

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[VOLiTiAN]

I think what you mean is that you can’t edit the velocities of the individual kit pieces within a beat, only the beat itself?
 
Normally each DAW has a drum specific editor, maybe referred to as a drum roll editor? If you check your operation manual you should see what it’s referred to, I would set the midi output channel to “10” and double-click the actual midi part and see what editor comes up (channel 10 is the MIDI standard channel for drums, more often than not the host (DAW) will understand this and change certain parameters accordingly)

The whole idea is you should be able to view an entire segment (depending on where you’ve sliced) or indeed the whole track, and then be able to also view/edit the velocities graphically in real-time.

http://zonicweb.net/music/musictechnologydictionary.htm

Just a quick link to alot of terms used in music tech.

Regards

D.

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Wow couldn’t get something working in windows? So it’s Windows’ fault, sheeesh, doesn’t matter what the tools are a poor workman is bound to blame them… I’m not an OS fanboy, but it still makes me wonder what on earth you were doing first time round that you couldn’t get it to work but then magically the mac OS sorted it out for you.

With all due respect, unless there was a specific driver/OS issue why did the mac suddenly solve all the problems? Hardly a learning curve if the problem re-surfaces…

ORIGINAL: juicy

Good to hear Vincenizzzle.
A windows machine usually equals more downtime.
Most pro studios have a Mac happily doin the audio grinding.but hey its just a choice .

Interesting, most of the studios I’ve visited tend to use PC platforms now due to cost and very little to differentiate the two platforms (cheers intel) and as for the downtime, it’s the same, if a piece of hardware dies or a piece of software goes up the spout (lets not forget the pure weight of the processing involved) it still takes the same time to fix.

All this mac vs PC is just nonsense and it’s comments like the above quoted that only further perpetuate the stereotypes.

A tool is at it’s best when it’s designed for the job.

Regards.

D.

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[VOLiTiAN]

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=how+to+mix+and+master+in+cubase&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

With all due respect you know that’s an immense question to ask, especially with throw away comments such as “crap” 🙂

“Ahhh….” EZmix…

Regards

D.

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[VOLiTiAN]

If you’re hearing the sounds being played back then superior is receiving MIDI so it’s there somewhere you just can’t see it. Most people edit the drums through a specific drum editor rather than a piano roll as you don’t need to worry about note length (more often than not the host will have a default editor), have you tried opening the drum editor, or putting the midi track on chnl 10 with an appropriate drum map loaded?

Regards

D.

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[VOLiTiAN]

Hi buddy,

I would say actually you did a pretty good job, you mentioned it’s not mastered (this mix could do with more top-end/air and definitely some more perceived bass) but even with that in place I think the drums need to come forward in the mix, try side chaining the guitars off the kick a little bit so they can both fight for a bit of the bottom end of the mix but ultimately the drums should be controlling that area, run a high pass on the guitars and bring the drums up in volume, or, if you’re happy with the drum sound then you could try subtractive EQ’ing to match the guitars down to the drums.

One a side note, if I can be so bold but about the performance from the guitarist, it DOES sound good, no mistaking and it’s all sounding like it’s in the right direction, but for goodness sake get the guitarist to really play those picked harmonics and put some attitude vibrato on them 🙂

Regards

D.

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Your guitar hero trigger would have to output a message that could either re-translate the drum-map on the fly or would trigger a midi map input transformer on or off, or on a genuine note, why even bother with those for the moment, when you get a new set you’re going to have to manually edit in all the grace notes etc you are missing when it comes to comparing to the previous stuff you laid down, I know we have to make do sometimes, but I just can’t see how the controller could give you anything like the expression, you’re going to have to manually edit all the velocities afterwards??

As for “unclear topic title”, with 4 posts to your name, don’t you think stating more than the obvious would be more helpful? or is this a post count booster I’m missing?

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D.

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[VOLiTiAN]

It’s not even connected to the internet and thus doesn’t have any virus scanners or firewalls running. Just strip it down to the minimum.

Good point couldn’t agree more!

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