Hi All,
I have an audio file (Pretty Little Lie – Blackberry Smoke) that I have imported into Cubase and I want to extract the drums from it so that I can create my own backing track for jamming guitars and vocal over.
I initially tried to get similar sounding drums beats from my EZDrummer 2 midi library by using the search and song builder but I couldn’t get search results anywhere near what I wanted using the tap to find tool so I gave up on that.
Then I used the cubase sample analyser to get the hit points from the audio track and create midi notes from that in a new midi track. That midi track has EZDrummer 2 as the vst instrument. That was partially successful but all the notes go onto one line, the kick drum so I had to move the snare hits up to where they should be. The hit point detection doesn’t seem to be able to pick up hi hat notes so I have to add those myself in the drum editor. I’m thinking of leaving the kick and snare in one track and adding another for the hi hat and cymbals and also connecting this track to EZdrummer 2.
But it’s a pain! Does anyone have suggestion on how I can get the hi hats notes in utilising EZDrummer? I thought maybe do another search to find the basic hi hat pattern I want and then use song builder to pad that out to the full length of the tracks.
Also tom rolls. How to get some nice natural sounding tom rolls? There were also not picked up very well by the hit point detection.
Is there no way I can input these things by finger drumming on a controller pad or is that not a good idea?
Am I going about this whole process correctly? I’m new to this 😀
Chris.
Operating system: Windows 10
