drum patterns in pro tools

[bennychico11]

Somebody advised me to copy kick and snare to make their sound more full. Also, should i leave open hi-hat on the seperate track, or I should pair it with another track?

then that person is a moron (no offense)
just copying a track to a new one is the same thing as raising the volume 3dB. You're just making the kick drum louder, it doesn't thicken it up. Think of it like a glass of water. If you have a glass that contains two cups of water..and then add exactly two more cups to it, does it mean the water is has turned into thick oil? No...you just have more water in the cup.


Just leave individual sounds on their own tracks. Don't worry about putting things together. I think we've (or probably I've) confused you too much with this. Ideally, each sound should get it's own track. That way you can edit each one differently. If you put it on a stereo track with something else, everytime you move the fader of that track it's going to effect both channels the same way.

 

[Farview]

we figured as much..

The last time I used it was on a mix plus system. There was no such thing as stereo tracks on the old system. I figured that since Digi is famous for lame implementation of obvious things, they would have the same ass-backwards way of dealing with this as all the rest of the programs do. Mark one up in protools favor.

 

[bennychico11]

The last time I used it was on a mix plus system. There was no such thing as stereo tracks on the old system.

boy I remember that....combined with a only a single "undo"!!
classic systems

 

[mscm23]

then that person is a moron (no offense)
just copying a track to a new one is the same thing as raising the volume 3dB. You're just making the kick drum louder, it doesn't thicken it up. Think of it like a glass of water. If you have a glass that contains two cups of water..and then add exactly two more cups to it, does it mean the water is has turned into thick oil? No...you just have more water in the cup.



Just leave individual sounds on their own tracks. Don't worry about putting things together. I think we've (or probably I've) confused you too much with this. Ideally, each sound should get it's own track. That way you can edit each one differently. If you put it on a stereo track with something else, everytime you move the fader of that track it's going to effect both channels the same way.

Very well said, Understood....

Once more, Thank you Benny,
I thought about that if I'll combine two sounds where each plays only a few bars in one track the effect that is good for one sound won't fit another.

 

[TragikRemix]

The last time I used it was on a mix plus system. There was no such thing as stereo tracks on the old system. I figured that since Digi is famous for lame implementation of obvious things, they would have the same ass-backwards way of dealing with this as all the rest of the programs do. Mark one up in protools favor.

hey hey hey... easy partner...

 

[Farview]

What got me was when I got done paying $30,000 for the mix plus and 1 year later the dealer called me up and told me that it was shit and I needed to drop another $25,000 to get the same thing in an HD system. I went back to tape for a year or so and went with Nuendo. All the functionality, I/O, plugins, etc... for 1/10 the price.

 

[bennychico11]

What got me was when I got done paying $30,000 for the mix plus and 1 year later the dealer called me up and told me that it was shit and I needed to drop another $25,000 to get the same thing in an HD system.

well, he IS a salesman. You're no good to him unless you're paying him money.


but he probably was hiding from you the hardware exchange.