Best way to seperate an audio drum track?

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Best way to seperate an audio drum track?

Post by infiniteB » Sun Nov 01, 2009 3:30 pm

Every once in a while, I'll use an audio clip of a beat (kick, hat, snare)... I always like to have my drum sounds seperate (for processing, panning, etc...)... I know about "Slice to new Midi Track", and have used this before (quite often to 16ths or 32nds), but it seems as if the results are somewhat different or choppy, and there is obviously bleed from one sound into another, so seperation is damn near impossible... any techniques? suggestions? anything would be appreciated... thanks...
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Re: Best way to seperate an audio drum track?

Post by polyslax » Sun Nov 01, 2009 4:07 pm

Sometimes I'll use volume envelopes to separate different kit sounds. You can work some eq on the individual sounds to try and minimize overlap, but you're rarely going to achieve perfection when 2 or more sounds intersect. If you have a really sharp eq with ultra steep curves it helps. I use Audio Ease's Periscope for this work.
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Re: Best way to seperate an audio drum track?

Post by Usedtobe » Sun Nov 01, 2009 8:42 pm

slice to midi works perfectly if everything is right on beat. you can also just put warp markers where you want it to slice, or go into arrange view and hit cmd-4 to turn quantize off and cmd-e to slice where your cursor is, then slide everything to a drum rack. then you can use the volume envelopes on each simpler in the drum rack to make everything tidy. if you are talking about separating sounds that happen simultaneously, you can't.

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Re: Best way to seperate an audio drum track?

Post by infiniteB » Sun Nov 01, 2009 10:25 pm

Thanks for the tips... I pretty much have been doin' just what you guys suggested for a while... I guess my main concern, not only is individual processing and "backwards" editing capability, but also leaving as much room for whoever masters my track(s)... How much do you think this will matter (I know this vary depending upon the individual clip, what needs to be/not be processed, skill of the mastering engineer, etc.., but still, any opinions?)... thanks...
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Re: Best way to seperate an audio drum track?

Post by infiniteB » Mon Nov 02, 2009 5:40 pm

related question... the slice to midi command- it doesn't actually divide audio, does it, i mean, i know technically it plays 16 segments, say, if 1/16th is the division, but the clip should sound 100% the same as the original audio clip, no matter how it was sliced, as long as the new MIDI clipped is played "as is"---- right?
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