New To This – Trying to recreate a SUNO isolated drum track and improve it

[KAKuehn]

Hi there.  I am new to all of this and I using AI to help guide me through steps.  I have watched some introductory videos etc. but struggling with basics.

I have a basic country drum track that was created in SUNO – I have both the WAV file and MIDI.  Its isolated drums.  Its good quality, clean and sounds fine when I play the audio.

I have tried two options for this:

1. I’ve dropped the audio in Bandmate.  I would think since its drums only Bandmate would find the track, sync it up and recreate something similar, hopefully better, but the result is a track that is completely out of sync with the original track.  Doesn’t detect the downbeat, starts in the wrong place, plays multiple measures over the end, etc.
2. I’ve tried importing the MIDI and its completely mapped wrong.  I get a bass drum and crash cymbals. Gemini AI tried to talk me through mapping the MIDI or something but it kept pointing me to stuff that wasn’t on the screen, icons that didn’t exist etc.

If there are tutorials on this topic, I am happy to go watch. I have watch two and neither one has this issue.  The videos show dropping audio in, like a bass or guitar, and it creating a perfect track. Why cant it create a perfect track from drum audio?

I tried to attach the drum audio but its a WAV and its too big.  One thing that I did notice is that the SUNO track doesn’t have the hi-hat.  I was hoping EZD3 would add that in for me.

Any help is appreciated.

Kerry

EZdrummer version: 3.1.2
Operating system: Windows 11

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[Mick Avoidant]

Bandmate is for making a drum to track to go with another instrument track, not for copying a drum track.

Put the MIDI into EZDrummer through File menu. Now open Grid Editor. Select the ‘wrong’ drum notes and drag them to the drum you want them on.

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Thanked by: Brad

[Mick Avoidant]

Have you tried youtube.com/Shootie school yet?

[KAKuehn]

Fair enough.  I just figured if it was smart enough to play with a guitar track, it would be able to play with a drum track.  🙂  I’ll keep working on it and try MIDI again. IU was sold on the stupidly easy aspect of this by a couple people and I am not finding it that easy and I have years of experience with physical drum machine, mixing and recording.  Thanks for your input!

[KAKuehn]

I will.  Thanks for pointing me somewhere!

[John]

For best results with Bandmate and Audio files, use cut sections in the same tempo as you are working; e.g. import an 8 Bar ‘verse’ of a guitar/bass guitar with clean in and out points that loops nice.

If you need to trim/align the audio so that the first beat of the imported audio starts at the first beat of bar 1 (or 0); trimming is done by clicking and dragging the ends of the imported idea on the timeline. Snap-to-Grid is turned on by default, but if your source audio or MIDI is not aligned to the grid, you can turn it off with the button under the source track volume slider so that you can trim it with more accuracy.

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
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[Gerry]

Ich habe das gleiche Problem mit Bandmate

Operating system: Windows 11

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