Electric Drumset recording.

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Okay am about to purchases a Yamaha DTX550K and I would like to record some drum beats. I have Sony Music Recording and a White Snake cord. Can I record with that and, if so, how? If not, what do I need to record with electric drums?
 
Did a quick google and can't find white snake cable. I assume thats a usb to 1/4"? If so that might do the trick but it might not. I've heard that some of the 1/4" to usb cables have a really high latency that may just annoy the crap out of you. You'd be better off getting a proper recording interface.

Some thing you may want to think about is recording the midi as well, you could either get a recording interface that has midi or just a USB midi box. I don't know anything about the sony software, I assume it's sound forgae and with just a quick scan on their website I don't see any mention of midi capabilities.
 
I just plug mine into the interface and record it like audio. Well, technically, it is audio at that point.
 
What is a proper recording interface and how much would that run me?
 
Nugagerube said:
What is a proper recording interface and how much would that run me?
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Some of the newer drum modules come with mutlitple outputs letting you isolated parts of the kit. That is something you may want to consider. If so you would need an 8 channel interface.

If you were to stick with the single stereo out put the you could look at some of the 2 channel interfaces. Something like this: http://www.presonus.com/products/Detail.aspx?ProductId=53
This would also give you some mic pre's for recording guitar, vocal, ect..
 
Nugagerube said:
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It what you are speaking of is Soundforge. It is mono/stereo recording/editing only. If you were to add anything else to your stereo drum track you would need multitracking software (cubase, reaper,etc)

Keep in mind some interfaces come with a copy of some multitracking software.
 
Nugagerube said:
Okay am about to purchases a Yamaha DTX550K and I would like to record some drum beats. I have Sony Music Recording and a White Snake cord. Can I record with that and, if so, how? If not, what do I need to record with electric drums?
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I'm new in this site. I am 1 1/2 yr owner of a Roland td3k edrums. My way of recording is midi. I use the midi output of the module using UNO m-audio midi-usb interface and record it to my DAW as midi.
Then map the midi and replace each drums parts( kick, snare,etc. with the sound of your choice. HOpe this helps a bit.
check my site for the recorded samples using erdums. http://audio.abonales.com
 
Thank you to all of you for the help. But I am still a bit confused. Can I possibly buy a midi recording device. Plug my drums into that. Record it. Then plug that into a computer and put the tracks on there? Would that be a way to do it?
 
Nugagerube said:
Thank you to all of you for the help. But I am still a bit confused. Can I possibly buy a midi recording device. Plug my drums into that. Record it. Then plug that into a computer and put the tracks on there? Would that be a way to do it?
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No need to get a midi recorder. Your DAW will do the recording. I know there are lots of DAW's that can record midi. So far I have tested are sonar and mixcraft.
 
A lot of interfaces come with a free copy of Cubase LE. Recording the midi is the best way imo, cuz you can edit the midi - timing, velocities, add/remove drum hits. Stuff you could never do with audio.

As mentioned above, you can run the midi thru different drum sample sets like battery, addictive, ezdrummer, etc.. But you can also run the midi back into your module, and record the resulting audio that comes out. You don't need to spend the $$ on additional drum samples if you're satisfied with your module's drum tones.
 
Okay thanks guys I can see I have a lot of options to record my drumset, thanks to all of your guys' help.
 
Just to maybe help out a bit more, what you need to connect the keys to the computer is one of these.

Option #1.
http://www.m-audio.ca/products/en_ca/MIDISPORT1x1.html

I think you can get them for around $50. If your sony recording software supports midi thats all you need.

If not you need a copy of something like Cubase LE which supports midi recording.

Option #2.
As some mentioned before to record Audio to the PC you should really invest in a recording interface.

http://www.presonus.com/products/detail.aspx?productid=43

Something like this should handle all your needs, it includes a midi controller so you don't need the m-audio box I mentioned above. I think these run for about $500. This comes with a presonus DAW program. This would allow you to Record midi, edit the midi on the computer and then send it back to the keys. You could then record the audio from the keys back into the computer.

Hope that all makes sense.
 
TetraFish said:
Just to maybe help out a bit more, what you need to connect the keys to the computer is one of these.

Option #1.
http://www.m-audio.ca/products/en_ca/MIDISPORT1x1.html

I think you can get them for around $50. If your sony recording software supports midi thats all you need.

If not you need a copy of something like Cubase LE which supports midi recording.

Option #2.
As some mentioned before to record Audio to the PC you should really invest in a recording interface.

http://www.presonus.com/products/detail.aspx?productid=43

Something like this should handle all your needs, it includes a midi controller so you don't need the m-audio box I mentioned above. I think these run for about $500. This comes with a presonus DAW program. This would allow you to Record midi, edit the midi on the computer and then send it back to the keys. You could then record the audio from the keys back into the computer.

Hope that all makes sense.
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Ha-ha not really. lol. i get the general idea though all i need is a midi controller and software midi capable?
 
Nugagerube said:
Ha-ha not really. lol. i get the general idea though all i need is a midi controller and software midi capable?
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Well kind of, That will allow you to record midi commands, edit them if you wish, and play them back through your keyboard (or whatever midi device).

You still have the issue of recording the audio, which should be doable with the usb cable you have.

So it would go like this.

1) connect keys to midi controller and record your song
2) If you have a few little mistakes you could edit them or add stuff, change the arrangement etc. in the DAW software.
3) connect the audio out from your keys with the usb lightsnake cable.
4) playback the new midi file in the DAW software which will control your keyboard and will sound exactly like the original (with your edits) and record the audio.


Now depending on the software you need to do some set up to tell the program how to connect to midi and audio sources.
 
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