Anyone using Quantization for Drums?

[joswil44]

I am wondering if anyone uses Quantization on their recordings for drums tracks?

I have drummers that start getting sloppy on double bass and other parts here and there that seems like Quantization would maybe help.

Or is everyone just moving the hits that are out of place back into place manually?

I just find it difficult when the drummer is hitting 16th note double kicks for 30 seconds and I am supposed to try and clean it up.

I get tired of copying, pasting and dragging and wonder if there's easier methods to use.

What is everyone else doing?

 

[legionserial]

http://www.drumagog.com/

 

[joswil44]

http://www.drumagog.com/

I use Drumagog but how is that supposed to help line up drum hits in time?

I haven't gone any farther with Drumagog than simple drum sound replacement.

I am under the understanding that it has midi capabilities and other features.

But I am not aware of any way to have Drumagog put your drums in the correct timing or Quantizing them.

Am I missing something there?

 

[Farview]

Drumagog does not do anything about the timing.

Sometimes, I quantize the entire song. What you do is you group all the drum tracks together and make a cut at every hit. Then move each hit to where it belongs on the grid. (manually or using some sort of quantize function in your DAW)

If he didn't play to a click, you're screwed. You are going to have to move everything by hand and eyeball it.

 

[joswil44]

Drumagog does not do anything about the timing.

Sometimes, I quantize the entire song. What you do is you group all the drum tracks together and make a cut at every hit. Then move each hit to where it belongs on the grid. (manually or using some sort of quantize function in your DAW)

If he didn't play to a click, you're screwed. You are going to have to move everything by hand and eyeball it.

Figured that if it wasnt done to the DAW click your probably stuck with the Quantize feature.


So once again I am hearing about slicing, hit points, etc.

I have gone through those steps before but I always get lost at the point of Quantizing. Seems like it gets into the midi realm and I am not midi friendly yet. At least not with Nuendo 2.

 

[Farview]

Quantizing has nothing to do with midi. If you didn't record it to the click, there is no way to use the quantize feature in Nuendo. That feature moves the slices to the grid, you don't have a grid.

 

[LeeRosario]

I like the episode of this cartoon Futurerama...where they say something about:

"When you do it right, nobody will know you did anything at all".


Applies here.