Platinum Transients

Ok, so I've figured out many ways around this, but since Platinum is suppose to have a new algorithm for audiosnap and transients I thought I would give my 2 cents on this. 
 
This works better than before, but still needs a lot of improvement. Here's the major thing I think should work a lot better. Transients on things with very clear transients, like drums, don't seem to work quite right. Let's take an example. 
 
If I have a Kick track. For my recordings this is the easiest thing to discuss, I get a lot of isolation from a mic I put inside the drum. There are very clear kick events, VERY CLEAR. 
 
If I could draw a line on the clip view, I could very easily position a line and say "everything above that line is a kick hit or what I would call a transient" and it would be 100% accurate and easy to do. 
 
However, when I turn on transients, and play with the threshold slider... There will be clear kick hits that don't get identified while there are very very small things (who knows what) that do get identified. No matter how I adjust the threshold I can't get 100% accuracy on the kick hits. 
 
Why is this so hard to get right? Individual drum tracks should be the easiest "no brainer" case for transients and audiosnap and it should be 100% correct.
 
I do this on every recording I make as I always layer kick and snare and mix, so making this work better would really help my workflow.
 
gabo

Yes, forgot to mention the "way before" or "way after" cases. There are always some of these and it's easy to reproduce as it happens every time.
 
My method of dealing with it is to gate it, tweak the gate to get short spikes, freeze the track, and then drag it to a midi track. Then I unfreeze the original track and remove the gate. That works well, but why should I have to do all that every time I make a recording?
 
gabo

What DAW do you use for drum editing? Is it a windows DAW? I might try the same if you've found one that works better. 
 
I have been a Sonar user for many years and will continue, but if I could export drum tracks to something that works much better and then bring them back, I might give that a try. 
 
gabo

Yea, sorry for that Razor. 
 
Wow, after reviewing, Sonar really does have a lot of work to do to make multitrack drum editing competitive.
 
We really need to try to put some pressure on Cake to get this sorted out.
 
gabo

Record any significant stretch of audio, preferably multitracking with several mics. Turn on AudioSnap. Observe.