Zydeceltico
New member
Hi All -
I'm a singer/songwriter with a home studio. I write a variety of songs most of which tend to show my affinity for the '70s and '90s.
I've been using Reaper since 2012 and Superior Drummer almost as long.
While I love what I'm able to achieve with SD3, I continue to miss the vibe of a real drummer who instinctively speeds up at choruses and naturally falls back in a verse or drives ahead of the beat in a bridge.
Also - I write the vast majority of my songs on either acoustic guitar or piano. I just bought the Townsend mic system to use with my Apollo Duo - -which I absolutely love.
The reason I bring this up is that the quality of sound I'm getting with that setup is so good that I want to approach my tracking of the overall song differently.
In the past, I have always recorded a scratch track of me playing and singing a song to a click, finding or creating a suitable groove in SD3, then retrack instruments and vocal separately and individually......and I always feel like it loses vibe - - - - -because it does.
So now - -with this new mic system - - I feel like I am totally wasting great vibe by trashing my scratch after I have a drum groove.
I want to use my scratch of vocal/guitar as the final and then put all of the other arrangement to it.
But that means I need to get the click to follow my live performance rather than the opposite - and I need SD3 specifically to follow my groove/meter.
Anybody have tips/tricks/suggestions?
I've watched Kenny's video on tempo mapping and that is obviously where I am headed. Thinking creatively about stretch markers also.
But does anybody have any "user experience" outside of pointing me at his video that might be beneficial? Specifically regarding attempting this with SD3?
One workflow that I'm considering - bearing in mind that I do not have perfect tempo (being human and all that) - is to record the guiatr/vocal combo to a click but not worry about "dead on." Then turn click off and tempo map that track. Then have SD3 follow that click groove. That would also allow me the opportunity to retard some areas and speed up other bits as I see fit but still be somewhat "on track" due to originally playing loose to a click.
Anybody else have any workflow tips?
Anything I should know about SD3 peculiarities trying this?
Thanks,
Tim
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I'm a singer/songwriter with a home studio. I write a variety of songs most of which tend to show my affinity for the '70s and '90s.
I've been using Reaper since 2012 and Superior Drummer almost as long.
While I love what I'm able to achieve with SD3, I continue to miss the vibe of a real drummer who instinctively speeds up at choruses and naturally falls back in a verse or drives ahead of the beat in a bridge.
Also - I write the vast majority of my songs on either acoustic guitar or piano. I just bought the Townsend mic system to use with my Apollo Duo - -which I absolutely love.
The reason I bring this up is that the quality of sound I'm getting with that setup is so good that I want to approach my tracking of the overall song differently.
In the past, I have always recorded a scratch track of me playing and singing a song to a click, finding or creating a suitable groove in SD3, then retrack instruments and vocal separately and individually......and I always feel like it loses vibe - - - - -because it does.
So now - -with this new mic system - - I feel like I am totally wasting great vibe by trashing my scratch after I have a drum groove.
I want to use my scratch of vocal/guitar as the final and then put all of the other arrangement to it.
But that means I need to get the click to follow my live performance rather than the opposite - and I need SD3 specifically to follow my groove/meter.
Anybody have tips/tricks/suggestions?
I've watched Kenny's video on tempo mapping and that is obviously where I am headed. Thinking creatively about stretch markers also.
But does anybody have any "user experience" outside of pointing me at his video that might be beneficial? Specifically regarding attempting this with SD3?
One workflow that I'm considering - bearing in mind that I do not have perfect tempo (being human and all that) - is to record the guiatr/vocal combo to a click but not worry about "dead on." Then turn click off and tempo map that track. Then have SD3 follow that click groove. That would also allow me the opportunity to retard some areas and speed up other bits as I see fit but still be somewhat "on track" due to originally playing loose to a click.
Anybody else have any workflow tips?
Anything I should know about SD3 peculiarities trying this?
Thanks,
Tim
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