A DRUMAGOG question

[UKPete]

Hi
I am thinking of buying Drumagog software for my recordings of the acoustic drums.

I understand how it works my only question is the hi hat. Does it replace the sound with an open sound when the drummer lifts it up in a song. I don't mean playing open hi hat I mean if I assign a a sample closed hi hat to the track how does it cope when the drummer opens up the hi hat.

Any advice would be welcome.

Cheers

 

[tarnationsauce2]

Drumagog is most useful for kick, snare, and toms. Not so much for cymbals. In fact I've never heard of someone doing it before. Not to say it cannot be done.

But to answer your question, it would probably attempt to play a bunch of closed hi-hat samples during an open hi-hat. Because the open hi-hat would be over the trigger threshold. Not to mention drumagog would also have to know when to cut an open hi-hat sample when the player closes it.
As far as I know drumagog does not have closed/open hi-hat capability.

Now, you could accomplish it with some manual labor of cutting open hi-hats out of the closed hi-hats wave file and assigning them their own drumagog track. A lot of work and it'll probably sound unnatural. You'd also need to mic the hihats seperately, and EQ out everything besides the hihat frequencies to avoid cross triggering.

 

[Farview]

Most of the time you would just replace the drums and use the overheads for the cymbals. (or mic the hat)

If you are working with a midi kit, Drumagog can be triggered by a midi signal. Then you can get the pedal to control the position control on drumagog which will change the open/closed position of the hat samples.


If you are just using acoustic drums, just mic the cymbals, that will always sound better.

 

[YellowMatter]

You'll be unhappy trying to replace hats with any replacement software. But for replacing and augmenting drum hits, Drumagog is THE plugin imo.

 

[_mat_]

If you can't record the high hat again and drumagog/soundreplacer doesn't sound natural, try out BFD Drumkit from Hell or EZ Drummer. I just started using EZ drummer and it has to be the best midi drumming program out there. It'll take some time to replace every high hat hit, simply because it's not a triggering program, but when you're done.........oh boy it pays off!

Definitely look into EZ Drummer or BFD Drumkit from Hell. Those two Plug Ins are disgusting and even a midi idiot like myself can figure it out. Let me know if you need any other help with decent drumming plug ins.

- Mat