Anyone using Drumagog or other triggers?

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I just read a review of Drumagog and it looked quite cool. It just takes an audio drum track and replaces your real drum hits with its sampled ones.

This would seem to be a good compromise between recording real drums vs programming. You still get the real drummer's sense of rythym and timing, but issues around mic placement and room dynamics become less important as you can replace that feeble kick sound with something closer to Bonham's.

Any one tried this or something similar?
 
Yep, I've got it and it's a life saver. Sometimes I get bands to do demos or something and the drummer's kit just sucks big time. Drumagog saves crappy sounds drums and makes everything sound alot better.
 
It really works now?

I downloaded the first version like 3 or 4 years ago, and I couldn't make anything happen.


Can you apply it now to individual drum tracks (kick, snare, hi-hat) or do you have to swap it across whole drum mixes, or even worse, full songs?
 
You trigger the sounds from ANY track you like.... drums or not!
 
Neat

Does it just measure amplitude spikes and replace them with designated samples?

Is it worth its purchase price..... (which is?)




-Chris
 
I wish I weren't so close minded, I would probably use this thing. I never liked the idea of make anything, drums especially. Boy, would I kill for top of the line equipment so I wouldn't need these things.
 
I tried the demo, but I didn't purchase, because I still like to do the replacing semi-manually.

I use the Audio-to-Score-feature that's built into Logic Audio to convert the audio into a MIDI track and use that to trigger samples. The benefit of this approach is that it's pretty easy to manipulate MIDI data, so that you can change the timing or the dynamics quite well.

This whole process is time consuming, but since I am a homereccer, time isn't the most important factor.

David
 
FattMusiek said:
I wish I weren't so close minded, I would probably use this thing. I never liked the idea of make anything, drums especially. Boy, would I kill for top of the line equipment so I wouldn't need these things.
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I don't think it's of any use in terms of "creating" drum tracks.... it is useful as a tool for replacement of drum sound (say if a tom hit isn't working) - or even as a trigger tool for special effects..... at least, that's how *I* use it!
 
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I don't think it's of any use in terms of "creating" drum tracks....
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You could think of it like this: Use the cheapo mic that came with you computer to record yourself drumming on a table with a pencil, run this through Drumagog --> instant snare track! :D

It would be much easier to use a MIDI device, though, of course.
 
I downloaded the demo and I'll admit, this is terribly fun to mess around with.
 
i sample my own hits and use it. I've used it very successfully with kick drum.
 
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