Bear-Faced Cow
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Bear-Faced CowTo do this seamlessly you would require two instances of EZ Drummer within a DAW or an app like GigPerformer.
jord
Bear-Faced CowIn Logic you can instantiate mono aux channels and grab the left and right channels from then outputs.
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Bear-Faced CowThere was no core library. It was based on the expansion pack you purchased.
I just installed all of the EZ Keys 1 expansion packs that I owned. Perhaps the key one I purchased when I purchased EZ Keys was the one that triggered the MIDI. update.
jord
Bear-Faced CowYou don’t need to uninstall EZ Drummer 3’s libraries. Move the libraries to your external drive and trash the current library. Then point EZ Drummer 3 to the new location.
jord
Bear-Faced CowIf I had a nickel for every time someone posted ________ is dead…
(insert your favorite ToonTrack product… we’ve heard ‘em all)
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Thanked by: BradBear-Faced CowNot our ears. Been doing this long enough to know the difference and have listened to Superior Drummer 3 at various velocities.
Could very well be your interface or audio chain. What sample rate are you using?
jord
Bear-Faced CowGain staging is not mixing. Gain staging is not about establishing volume. Gain staging is about finding the sweet spot in your mixer for the best sound. Mixing is about balancing the signals. In any recording you are not mixing.
in many of these SDXs, the presets were done by the producers. They know their genres and have the Grammys to show for it. If they don’t suit you, you are free to change them. You have that freedom. However, it is not ToonTrack’s issue if you find them unbalanced for your liking.
You may also have other factors such as masking from other signals. That can emphasize some kit pieces while diminishing some kit pieces… such as the ride. This is also what mixing is about. Not everything is solved by volume.
jord
Bear-Faced CowAs I said, that is where drum mixing comes in. That’s why you have a mixer tab. It’s no different when recording a song.
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Bear-Faced Cowwhen recording real drums, the drummer can hear it much better than when recording with these sd3 libraries.
Not true at all. Drummers are not only hearing the entire room along with the drums, their overall hearing may also be affected by the volume of the drums. Ears are natural compressors. Recording drums in the SDX libraries separate the room from the kits. In this case, it’s more about getting a clean recorded kit so that you as the user can engineer the mix.
And considering the libraries in question were done by Elliot Shiner, Al Schmidt, and George Massenburg, I highly doubt that there is an issue with their hearing abilities
Some tips om how to properly hear everything and balance volume early in the production? I feel the volume difference is so big that it really don’t translate of how I hear a real drum kit when playing on real drums.
That’s where drum mixing comes in. You’re playing with recorded drums. That’s different from real drums. You have to approach the sound with an engineer mentality as opposed to a drummer mentality.
Btw what do you mean by the sounds not being processed? They’re eq-ed, saturated and compressed on the channels by default on all presets, all as the processed button is ticked on each pad
I’m not talking presets. You can do anything you want within a preset. I’m talking about the actual recording capture. These particular engineers were known for getting their sound old school before George M. ever invented the EQ. It was all about the mic and its placement.
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Thanked by: Kim MossigeBear-Faced CowAside from the fact that rides are perceivably lower in volume than crashes, you also listed the three libraries in which everything is recorded unprocessed.
It is not wildly unbalanced. It is recorded as natural as possible with all of the transients in place. This is what drum mixing is all about: getting everything in balance.
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Thanked by: BradBear-Faced CowIt’s not Logic or Superior Drummer. I’ve been using the latest version of both without any issues. You should check your CoreAudio settings. The last two issues are definitely more of an indication that something is going wrong in either your computer or OS.
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