Transition Live clips to Superior Drummer
Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2022 6:30 am
I have a few drum tracks in sets that I created in Live. We like the patterns, but the kits are... meh. In particular is a snare holding us back from sending the track off to the mastering engineer. I've dug through the endless faux names based on meth residuals or whatever in Live's library... I have Superior Drummer 3 and the drums are simply amazing compared to 808 with reverbs and such tweaked to 'Vintage Kit'
I loaded Superior Drummer on a MIDI track and then created Audio tracks for kick, snare, hi-hat, rack tom 1 (2,3), and floor tom 1 (and 2). I then set the Input Chanells on the new Audio tracks in Live to the 'Superior Drummer 3' instrument and used the Mixer in Superior Drummer to edit the outs in its Mixer tab to match the different Audio tracks in Live. The result being an Audio track that, for example, plays/records the single drum kit piece (kick, snare, etc) and allows for fine tuning.
This method works well. I can swap drum sounds and add effects or adjust volume, pan, etc. on each piece of the drum kit. The output track/media is audio, so the effects and tweak-ability options are endless.
So my question(s) is this, what (if any) methods would you recommend to transition the (MIDI) drum patterns?
I want to use the (clip) pattern on my 'Kick-OldSchool' instrument on the 'drums' track in Live, but how do I import/leverage that as quickly as possible, so that I can try the different kicks, snares, etc in Superior Drummer 3?
Hope this makes sense...
I loaded Superior Drummer on a MIDI track and then created Audio tracks for kick, snare, hi-hat, rack tom 1 (2,3), and floor tom 1 (and 2). I then set the Input Chanells on the new Audio tracks in Live to the 'Superior Drummer 3' instrument and used the Mixer in Superior Drummer to edit the outs in its Mixer tab to match the different Audio tracks in Live. The result being an Audio track that, for example, plays/records the single drum kit piece (kick, snare, etc) and allows for fine tuning.
This method works well. I can swap drum sounds and add effects or adjust volume, pan, etc. on each piece of the drum kit. The output track/media is audio, so the effects and tweak-ability options are endless.
So my question(s) is this, what (if any) methods would you recommend to transition the (MIDI) drum patterns?
I want to use the (clip) pattern on my 'Kick-OldSchool' instrument on the 'drums' track in Live, but how do I import/leverage that as quickly as possible, so that I can try the different kicks, snares, etc in Superior Drummer 3?
Hope this makes sense...