How to Quantize Recorded Drum tracks?

[joswil44]

I tryed to search on this but didnt have to much luck so maybe someone can help me?

I would like to know how to quantize live accoustic drum tracks.

I use Nuendo at the moment and I know the feature exists, but I dont know how to go about it.

It appears as though it is somehow through the Midi drop down menu, but I dont know how get started.

What I really want to do is tighten up the kick drums for double bass without having to copy and paste drum hits everywhere to clean it up manually.

Anyone know how this is done?

Thanks.

[noisewreck]

Before you can quantize it, you'll have to slice it at the hits. Cubase/Nuendo has the hitpoints feature that you can use. However, you might want to cut the drum tracks into manageable chunks of 4-8 measures, otherwise the results might be unpredictable. In any case, whether you cut it or not, you'll need to tell Nuendo the general tempo, and the exact number of measures. Once you get the hitpoints setup (I advice you soom in on every hit, and make sure the markers are set properly and you don't have any extra markers, or don't have two hits under one marker... correct these if you do), go to Audio -> Advanced -> Slice (or something similar, not at my music computer right now). This will close the audio editor, and will turn the audio part into an even part which contains all the sliced hits (if you now double-click on the part, instead of getting the audio editor, you'll get the part editor). Highlight the newly created part, go to MIDI and select quantize.

I know I am vague on some of the steps. If you get stuck on something, read up on "Hitpoints" in the Help menu.