Drum replacment software advise needed!!

I am working on a recording project and just cant get a couple of drums (live drums) to sound right. thinking of using drum replacement software. I do have BFD2 which has increadable samples. Never have replaced real drums with samples. I don't want to spend another $300 on this either. What options fo I have?

There is a 100 dollar version of trigger from steven slate. Cheapest I can think of. You can use the hit detection in Sonar to generate midi from the seperate drum tracks and then feed BFD. Toontrack's Drumtracker is an option too.

Yeah, man check out the Drum Production webinar. If the drum tracks are isolated just following what they did should make it pretty easy to swap things out.

Are all your components recorded on seperate tracks?  (Kick, snare, etc...)
If so shouldnt take but a very short time to do.

when I check out a thread with a question, I always look at the already existing answers to be sure not just  to repeat what's already been said.

no offence, but.. ..am I the only one doing this..?

yes, had 8 mics going, kick, snare, toms and 2 overheads.  Thanks all for the advise. I am going to try the audio snap first. I like the idea of keeping it all in sonar, session drummer. May use bfd, but session drummer has some pretty good sounds. hate to buy more drum software. to be honest, i bought bfd becuase i did not know of session drummer. Session drummer is very cool and very easy to use!! so I will try that route first. will let post my expereice.  thanks again, this forum ROCKS!!!!!

Heck... you could blend them with the original tracks if you wanted.

Here are a couple of videos that might help http://www.cakewalk.com/C..V/SONARU.aspx/Go-Deeper

Here's the webinar on drum production where Seth and Brandon do exactly what you are talking about and more... http://www.youtube.com/wa...1MD80kk&feature=relmfu I really want to try some of that stuff out myself. Cheers.

What beepster said, he's a fast typist. Also in the PRV right-click on the keyboard, in the note names dialog click the "Use These Note Names Instead" radio button and select the "General MIDI Drums" from the dropdown. Then the keys will show the drumkit names instead of piano keys.

piano roll shows the names of the drums (snare, kick etc.) don't know how to find a midi map. f1 didn't work. SD3 indicates a number like "41" however the audiosnap is wanting an alpha numeric "B#" or similar. The kick is B3, cant seem to find the midi notes.

F1 does not do anything!!!! I had the GUI in focus and pressed F1....nothing!

It's in there, dude. We wouldn't lie to, ya. Make sure you actually have the SD3 GUI in focus (just click anywhere on the SD3 window) and the click F1. Also check your windows task bar like scook said. It may be the help topic didn't pop up to the front. Also be aware that it is a PDF file so you need to have a PDF reader installed like Adobe Reader to view it. Otherwise it will just be a notepad doc with a bunch of wacky numbers and stuff in it.

Well pretty much all of my manuals seem to be PDFs or something similar because I had to install Adobe to actually see them (I built my own rig so I didn't have anything except Win7 Pro). I've never seen or heard of the .chm extension before this. It's likely the same as what I have but generally if I try to open a doc or manual and it shows up all wonked I just open it with Adobe and all is well.

Heh... yeah, I've poked at it a bit. I've pretty much found everything I need for now. Eventually I'd like to figure out all this .dll mayhem you guys seem to always be screwing around with... but for now things are good and I have more than enough on my plate. Really wish I could take a look at the X2 manual though.