different grooves different drum sounds

[greg54]

I don’t know if it’s just me or if others have this issue.  But I’ve been using SD3 for a few years now.  And what bothers me is that when I get a drum sound I like with one song, that same drum sound may not work on another song.   And it’s because the grooves are not all recorded the same.  So a drum sound that sounds good on one drum groove doesn’t sound good on another.  And on a CD with several songs having different drum sounds, it doesn’t sound consistent.

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[Bear-Faced Cow]

If you are using different grooves from different MIDI packs, you are in a sense using different drummers. So yes, the same kit will sound different in the hands of different drummers. That is to be expected. If you wanted certain types of consistency between different grooves, you would have to go into either the grid editor or Edit Play Styles to shape the grooves to your liking with a particular kit or preset. It would not be realistic to expect a groove from two different drummers to sound the same on the same kit right out of the box.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

• This post was modified 3 years, 11 months ago by Bear-Faced Cow.

[greg54]

The problem with editing my own drum grooves is that it’s very time consuming.  It’s just easier to find a groove in SD3.  So I guess I messed up.  Thanks!

[Bear-Faced Cow]

It doesn’t have to be time consuming. Sometimes all it takes is just changing articulations and/or adjusting the volume. That can be accomplished rather quickly within Edit Play Styles.

Jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

[greg54]

I’ll have to check out Edit Play Styles.  Not familiar with it.  Thanks!

[greg54]

I checked out Edit Play Styles.  My problem is that I already put the tracks into my DAW, so the drum grooves are not in the song creation tool.  Why I did that, I don’t know.

[Bear-Faced Cow]

Then all you need to do is put the MIDI grooves on the drum track and mute the MIDI regions in your DAW. Then you can play with Edit Play Styles.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

[greg54]

I’m not quite understand what you mean.   The MIDI grooves are in my drum track in my DAW now.   So what do you mean: mute the MIDI regions in my DAW?  Sorry for having a mental block about this.

[Bear-Faced Cow]

Use the drum track in SD3. You can grab the MIDI from your DAW and drop it in the track. However, I might suggest that you simply re-drag your MIDI grooves from the groove window onto your track as it will retain all of the meta-data information if you want to change things around, such as finding similar grooves or re-open the containing folder. From there you can use Edit Play Styles to further work on your groove. Other things that you can do are mixing and matching grooves by copying groove parts from individual grooves onto a groove on the track. Plenty of ways to work with grooves in SD3 to get something you like.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

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[greg54]

Thanks!  I will try that.

• This post was modified 3 years, 11 months ago by greg54.

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