Multi-track Drum Editing Blog Series [PART 4 IS NOW LIVE!]

Looks great. Will attempt to follow along later. Thanks!

Downloaded, Project created waiting.
 
Thanks

Quantize moves things to the beat and by moving all the audio together, you don't really need to worry about phase issues. At least not ones introduced by Audiosnap. ;)
 
I've been following this series and although I think it is a perfectly workable method, it still seems more complex than the method I used in Reaper for our last album. I did everything in Sonar except the drum editing, for this reason.
 
Reaper makes it easy to split a clip and create a crossfade at that point at the same time. This then makes it trivial to adjust the hit. You can drag it forward in time, the clips become separate, a fade out then a fade in. Or you can drag the hit backwards in time and again the crossfade covers the overlap. Sometimes you'll drag the audio within the clip (rather than dragging the whole clip) to avoid making the crossfade duration too large. But the essence of it is, for each hit there is one click to split, one drag to align, done.
 
In Sonar, I don't know of a way to split a clip and create an automatic crossfade. That changes the workflow significantly and is part of why, at the end of part 3 of this series, you still have hits cut off at the ends (http://blog.cakewalk.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/m22-23-aligned.jpg) which will have to be fixed one way or another in part 4. It's not a big deal when you are just working with kick/snare/hats but when you have a crash that you want to sustain through 5 or 6 beats, you're just going to have to go back through the overhead tracks and edit them all back to full length, cross-fading with each of the previously-split clips.

...wicked
Do you ever explain how to adjust that early hi-hat hit on beat 3? Looks like you skipped it.

Yes! I did skip it for part 2 but part 4 is where we'll get into putting the pieces back together :)
-DG

Red4Con1
Have read all 4 article great work Dan.!
Here's a question I have two tracks different tempo can I use the technic in the 4 articles to sycn then together?

It depends on a few things, but if the tempos are pretty close then you should be able to chop your drum beats up, quantize the strong beats, and then render it as a single audio clip again using the techniques I outlined in this series.
-DG

When I have all the tracks selected, and put my mouse over a single track and tab. It doesn't tab to the next peak on that specific channel, but tabs to the next peak of all the selected channels.
 
Is there a setting some where that makes it tab to the next peak on the one channel?
 
I've found that I like to line up the snare and kick tracks, keeping all the others in line but not modify any other hits. This gives a bit more feel in my tracks while significantly tightening up the tracks. 
 
gbow

 

Dan Gonzalez [Cakewalk]
Clicking in a track's lower half disables the grouping functionality momentarily so that you can do what you're trying to do.

I've found it a bit tricky to "click" on anything in there as it can deselect the group. I thought you just hovered your mouse over the desired track and then tabbed. But maybe  you're saying I need to deselect the group and just select the one channel. Then re-select the group, by clicking the track header, before I "split" so it splits all the clips?
 
Thanks, gbow

Thanks, in doing some more experimenting. After I get the tracks split where I want them, I tried quantizing without cropping each group of clips to provide "space" on the back side. 
 
This actually seems to work just as well for me. Any discussion on the pros/cons of doing the clipping?

awesome work Dan. I really look forward to your blogs. they are very educating and interesting.
your a wizard.