Modifying my wave file - drums

stevesilvers · Post by **stevesilvers** » Mon Oct 20, 2008 10:24 pm

I have a .wav file loop for drums and I want to pick out a couple drum hits in it and adjust the volume. Possibly add some compression.

Not the entire file just certain drum beats in it...

How can I do this?

Thanks in advance
Steve

myxomat0515 · Post by **myxomat0515** » Mon Oct 20, 2008 10:46 pm

There's definitely more than one way to go about it. You could drag and drop the hits you want to edit onto an impluse MIDI track and adjust them from there. If you do it that way, you'll probably want to to use the volume envelope on the original audio track to silence the original hits (so you're not playing the same sounds on top of each other). Another way (maybe easier) is to split the loop into 2 audio files, but you'll still have to go in and do some volume envelope adjusting so you have one track playing only the drums to be left alone, and one track playing only the drums to be adjusted. From there you can do whatever you want to either track.

So theres a couple ways that I can think of off the top of my head to do it in Live alone. If you have any other audio editing software, I'm sure there are many more ways to do this.

stevesilvers · Post by **stevesilvers** » Mon Oct 20, 2008 10:51 pm

Well I found a tutorial for sound designers that should be able to draw the volume, but the movie shows an Arrangement part? I'm using Ableton 6.0.3 where do I find this?

stevesilvers · Post by **stevesilvers** » Mon Oct 20, 2008 10:58 pm

I figured it out.... Thanks for the help....