Kick Trigger/extract timing

[chernman]

I have an Kick drum on some recent tracking that I'm not exactly happy with 'soundwise'. I am really happy with the performance though and I'm considering adding a little sample kick.

I haven't (fortunately) run into this situation before where I couldn't just rerecord the whole performance.

Would extract timing be the feature I want to use? How accurate is it? I won't be home for a few days to try it out myself but I am rather curious about other users experience with this.

Thanks in advance!

Mark

 

[heinz]

Is your drum track all rolled up in a single stereo audio track? Is it a complex kick drum part, or simple (i.e. mostly on beats 1 & 3)?

I have a similar recording that I've contemplated enhancing the punch of the kick drum. I'm not sure how 'extract timing' would help isolate the kick parts though, mostly because it's a busy kick part.

I'm almost at the point of manually inserting, lining up, and duplicating a kick sample against a display of the drumtrack waveform. Would take a bit of work though... I have since been recording drums over multiple tracks to make editing much easier.

 

[chernman]

I actually had the ability to send some hours at home yesterday since my plane was delayed to tonight.

To answer your question. I do not have a single stereo track for all drums. My audio tracks consist of Kick, Snare Top, Snare Bottom, Tom1, Tom 2, H Hat, Ride, Left OH and Right OH. I will eventually Set these up as a single group.

SO I tried this last night.....
This feature did exactly what I wanted. I took the Kick track in audio view and extracted the timing to a new midi track. When I solo'd the Kick audio track there was a little bleed through of the snare so I made sure the threshold on the extract was high enough that I only got the kick. I assigned one of my favorite MIDI kicks and blended about 70/30 Real Kick vs Sample. The result fixed exactly what I wanted to fix. Still sounded authentic but corrected my mic'ing error.

Thanks,
Mark

 

[heinz]

that's cool with the kick track isolated I'm sure it was a breeze.