new drum replacement from toontrack

[twistedtom]

How many of you replace recorded drums with MIDI drums? Toontrack has this out now. Replacing recorded drums with more controllable MIDI drums appears to a big thing now a days.

Link to it. http://www.toontrack.com/drumtracker.asp

[conleycd]

This is kinda neat but it feels like a little more work for me. I wish they had incorporated it into some sort of plugin format. I'm just trying to picture my work flow in DP 5.x.

I have acoustic drum tracks. I would need to make a consolidated drum track for each track. Probably clean up the drums with some gates or hope that toontrack has kick butt triggering ability.

Bounce down 7+ tracks to wav or aif format

Re-edit them in Tunetrack.

Try to import the MIDI files and make them line up with my audio files (something I've never had good luck with in DP - importing MIDI)

Then assign the MIDI tracks to say - Mach 5

Go back and edit velocity either in DP or in Toontrack

Then freeze tracks with Mach 5

Then line up the wave forms underneath my original drums.

I don't know. The price seems right but Drumagog may win on work flow. I think Drumagog can also trigger MIDI notes too (I could be wrong).

Maybe I'm missing something... I know what I'm missing - the ability to trigger multiple drums from a stereo format.... but I don't do that anyway - for a remixer - that might be neat.

CC

[mhschmieder]

Certainly a nicer interface than Drumagog. Wonder how it compares feature-wise and in terms of actual results?

[Dwetmaster]

Still prefer Aptrigga...
Not necessarily better but certainly Simpler and cheaper.

[conleycd]

I've also been using aptrigga which I like. It's not perfect but it gets the job done.

CC

[gearboy]

I love Aptrigga. Used it all over my friends' new record to fly in an Omar Hakim snare on top of the original snare. For extra and higher "smack!!".

It's so inexpensive that everyone should own it.

Jeff

[mhschmieder]

That's a pretty ideal/spartan/intuitive interface, and is easy on the eyes like DP6.

What is the preferred way to convert existing audio to trigger tracks that Aptrigga is happy with, in your experience?

I frankly didn't have much luck with Drumagog when I tried it almost two years ago, but this is probably more of a reflction on how much less experienced I was with digital computer-based recording and audio tools at the time.