connecting drum machine to seperate tracks

[Joejoe]

ok..basically wanna have kick drum on track 1 snare on track 2 etc if possible..for reasons of eq and rev.i have it going from L/R outputs through my mixer to stereo track..it has individual outputs not sure how that works..would i need midi sequencing..its a docter rythm Dmachine..would i need midi..

 

[DaveO]

I think I understand your question.

My DR-770 has one individual output. That means I can change the settings on any one instrument (like snare or kick) and have that instrument routed to the Individual Output, rather than to the normal L/R outputs. If I remember correctly, that output is not affected by any of the internal effects. That way you have a clean signal to send to whatever effects chain you want (like reverb, eq, compression, etc.).

That's what I remember reading in the manual, but I'm pretty sure it's correct. I haven't used this capability yet, but I didn't think it had anything to do with MIDI. If I'm wrong, someone please correct me.

 

[Joejoe]

yeah...i pretty much wanna have dry signal going to each individual track but i need it in sync so when i wanna record snare its out of timing..if you can understand me i appreciate every help..thanx

 

[DaveO]

I'll risk shoving my foot a little deeper in my mouth.

Which model Dr. Rhythm do you have, since the number of indvidual outs varies. My DR-770 only has one but I think it's predecesor, the DR-660, had two. I'm not sure about any others. If you're just using the drum machine (no MIDI) then you're limited to the number of outputs on it. In my case I can get three outputs - Left, Right, plus the one Individual.

I don't use MIDI, but maybe something like this would work. If you use a sequencer to record separate tracks for kick, snare, and the rest of your set (or however you want to break out the individual drums) then you might just be limited by the number of tracks on your mixer/recorder or the number of tracks you want to dedicate to the drums.

Any MIDI experts want to comment on this idea? I may be totally wrong here, or only partly correct. Hell, I might have even made a lucky guess. I expect to be recording on a PC soon and would like to try doing drums and keyboards with MIDI, so I'm kind of curious what anyone else has to say.

 

[beebah]

When I'm recording drum tracks from a drum machine or MIDI keyboard and want to put the kick, snare, hi-hat etc on separate tracks, I usually programme my entire drum beat all on one MIDI channel (channel 10 is usually used for drums) using my software sequencer (Cakewalk) and using my drum machine/ keyboard as a sound source.

I make sure all my timing and velocity settings are how I want them and then I copy each different sound eg kick, snare etc to a different MIDI track. Then I record each separate MIDI track as a audio track. It takes quite a bit of time and I'm sure there is a quicker way but for what its worth, thats what I do. Usually I only separate the particular drum eg snare that I want to apply more effects to and leave the the rest of them on one track. It saves alot of time and disk space, and lets you use your other audio tracks for other instruments etc.