Drum Triggers

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You don't need to buy triggers to trigger samples.

If you have a clean close mic recording of snare, on its own track, and kick on its own track, you should be okay.
 
MadAudio said:
I recently recorded King Mixer, a local band, and for a variety of reasons I couldn't get a decent kick sound on the inital capture. So I decided to replace it in the mix. I ended up using the recorded kick as the trigger impulse into my Alesis DM5. I stuck a gate with a really quick release time on the original kick and used a volume envelope to even out the hits. I then sent that signal into one of the trigger inputs of the DM5, and tweaked the threshold level in the DM5, then recorded the sample kick to a new track. It worked very well, IMO.
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I don't understand drum triggers that well, but I have a yamaha dtxpress3 and this made me wonder if it was possible to do what you just described with that. I realize that the pads on electronic drums are called "triggers" but can you just route any old 1/4" signal in there?
 
ndutle said:
I don't understand drum triggers that well, but I have a yamaha dtxpress3 and this made me wonder if it was possible to do what you just described with that. I realize that the pads on electronic drums are called "triggers" but can you just route any old 1/4" signal in there?
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Normally when people talk about drum triggers, they are talking about things that you attach to the head of acoustic drums. Electronic drum pads do 'trigger' the drum sound in the module, so it gets confusing. The triggers or pads are kind of like microphones, they turn vibration into electrical energy. That energy is what the drum module (brain) uses to trigger the sound. You can plug just about anything into the drum module, I have had some luck pluggin a 58 into it and beating on it to make it trigger the sounds. I've also run drum tracks into a drum module to replace the live tracks with the samples.
 
Right on! I was planning on "souping up" the live drums (gating, compress) to get rid of extra noise and length in each one (mainly snare and bass like ez_willis was talking about) before I send it in brain.

This is like a new toy for me! WOOOHOOO
 
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