jamie_drum
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I'm fed up with MIDI drums, but I can't play the drums. What I can play is my fingers, on the table-top. You know, dum-da-da-dum-dum-dum, kind of thing.
I wanted a rhythm to match a particular progression on guitar, so I just recorded myself drumming it on the desk. The idea is to turn this into a groove clip, then replace the slices with real drums sounds--perhaps using cyclone, perhaps manually.
So what I did was, slip edit the recording until I had trimmed any silence off the beginning, and similarly slip edit the end, then open the clip in the loop inspector, then enable looping. Usually when I started the looping, the clip didn't sound exactly the right length (i.e. I left too much silence at the end) so I had to tinker with that a bit. Eventually, I got it sounding good looping.
I haven't yet substituted the drum sounds--that's next.
However, I can't help but feel that this is all a bit labourious. Surely there is a simpler way that I am just not quite getting? Bear in mind that I don't know the exact tempo of the original clip I recorded, and that I have to edit it by hand?
Anyone else done anything this way, and if so, any suggestions?
I wanted a rhythm to match a particular progression on guitar, so I just recorded myself drumming it on the desk. The idea is to turn this into a groove clip, then replace the slices with real drums sounds--perhaps using cyclone, perhaps manually.
So what I did was, slip edit the recording until I had trimmed any silence off the beginning, and similarly slip edit the end, then open the clip in the loop inspector, then enable looping. Usually when I started the looping, the clip didn't sound exactly the right length (i.e. I left too much silence at the end) so I had to tinker with that a bit. Eventually, I got it sounding good looping.
I haven't yet substituted the drum sounds--that's next.
However, I can't help but feel that this is all a bit labourious. Surely there is a simpler way that I am just not quite getting? Bear in mind that I don't know the exact tempo of the original clip I recorded, and that I have to edit it by hand?
Anyone else done anything this way, and if so, any suggestions?