cal on drums

Hi everyone.
To put different amounts of reverb on separate midi drums you have to run cal don’t you?
Any other options or tips?
Thanks,
radrad

Susan, Thanks for your reply.
What you stated was what I meant. A midi drum track would have to be split to separate tracks by cal to be able to apply different amounts of effects.
For each midi drum a new audio track would have to be created? Is this basically correct?
I understand the possibilities of send and returns for group effects but this still applies?
I’ve just started using ezdrummer but also have dr-008
Thanks
radrad

radrad,

I used to do it this way (using CAL to split drum tracks out). Do yourself a favor, and learn how to use drum maps. With a drum map, all of your drum data stays in one track, the data representation in piano roll is specialized to be easy to edit (each drum hit is a small, triangular symbol), and you can assign different notes to different MIDI channels, different instruments, etc. When you split drum tracks up, it is far more difficult to see how that crash cymbal hit relates to the kick drum hit (I almost never have a cymbal hit without a kick hit), or how the snare figures into that cool fill you did with toms, cymbals, kick, etc. If you need to effect a specific note, all you do is click on the note on the piano in piano scroll mode, and that note is selected throughout the song. Once you get it figured out, you will never go back. I use Giga drums in rewire mode, and have found this to work extremely well. I assign the same kit in Giga to several MIDI channels, and using a preset drum map I made, different drum sounds automatically go to different audio channels. I find it is not possible at this time to create the audio tracks all at once, due to stereo/mono issues, but if that is not the case with your drum instruments, you might be able to create your audio tracks all at one time after you get your MIDI the way you like it.

Also, I got to thinking, since you can easily mute specific notes in a drum map, I could just use one rewire channel from Giga, and create the audio tracks via muting.

In any case, drum maps are by far the superior way to deal with drums/MIDI.

Best,

Poco

Hey radrad, with EZDrummer you've got 8 separate tracks for your audio drum mix and yes each track can have it's own distinct effect in its FX bin. Just tell Sonar to instantiate "all tracks" when you load up EZD. Then when you've got your drums the way you like em, bounce them to audio and add effects. HTH

Hey yoro,

Is there a way to send EZDrummer to 8 separate tracks after you've already loaded it? Thanks
Mick

ORIGINAL: yorolpal

Hey radrad, with EZDrummer you've got 8 separate tracks for your audio drum mix and yes each track can have it's own distinct effect in its FX bin. Just tell Sonar to instantiate "all tracks" when you load up EZD. Then when you've got your drums the way you like em, bounce them to audio and add effects. HTH