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  • Rider-First song with new digital Drums (p.2)
2013/01/19 14:08:02
pistolpete
Yee Haw! over all not bad. the stops were a nice change of pace. However, there was a really bad hissing noise at about the 1:18 mark during the guitar solo.
2013/01/19 14:50:59
eko
Yes I react on the hissing sound too why is it there? The drums are a bit strutty and the HH a little bit to high otherwise very good.
2013/01/19 15:09:47
Guitarhacker
New Riders, Burritos, Poco, Nitty Gritty..... all that country rock shining through. 

Nice work, I do remember hearing this back in the day. 

The recording is good, nice tone and nice playing. 

Enjoyed that a lot. Makes me wanna go dig out the old 33LPs and spin them again. 
2013/01/19 18:35:58
Scottytunes
Truly delicious sounding! 

I love my Roland kit. So easy to record with no mic set up...just plug 'em in and play! You'll enjoy those DXT's once you get them dialed in where you like them.



2013/01/19 23:18:11
Cactus Music
Well your not actually hearing the DXT as I said I just used Session drummer, It was a matter of finding good sfx sounds in a hurry and not to happy so far, Next week when I get a chance I will figure out how to use the DTX sounds and re post the song.  

The other issue I had was velocity was different than the sound you get from the kit. I played listening to the brain on the headphones with Sonar input to the aux in. 
The problem is Session drummers sounds will react differently to velocity than the DTX sounds, So you don't get the same dynamics. I have never figured out how to globally edit the velocity I tried CAL but it gave mixed results. So was not happy with how the midi track turned out in that way.   
Your right about the stiff sound of the drums I believe it's a result of quantasizing to 16th notes. Got to come up with a better system on that too. When you paly drums on the keyboard that's about the fastest I could go, so for years I've used 16th or 16th triplet. But these new digital kits are very accurate with subtle rolls and fills. That got flushed with the quatasizing. The best sound would be from the audio output but that would then be only a stereo track ( with this model) and my timing is a little off which I cannot stand.  
I could always record one part at a time and use audio snap but then your back to square one and the results will sound unnatural. 
The real solution is to get better at kit playing which I will hope is still possible at 60 for me. I don't really like having to "cheat". I had a real kit for years but never played it because of angry looks from dog and wife... this is a new age of quiet drumming and I can practice a lot more now.  
  
The hiss seems to be an artifact created in uploading, It's not in my original MP3. Go figure? I have a funky internet using G3 cell network so uploading is dicey. It often stalls. 
The song is a work in progress will be replacing one guitar solo with banjo. Just gave my friend the file to work on. 

Thanks a bunch for input everyone 



2013/01/20 05:14:58
jamesg1213
That was very enjoyable John. Don't know the original, but this sounds really nice. Love your vocals and guitar playing.
2013/01/20 07:30:08
Scottytunes
This thread is confusing. 

"First song with new digital drums....The drums are Yamaha DXT 400K....I didn' use the kit...." 

How do you spell schizophrenia?
2013/01/20 07:47:21
jamesg1213
I took it to mean he's playing the e-drums, but the sounds are from Session Drummer and TTS-1.
2013/01/20 16:22:21
Cactus Music
Yes I thought that was very clear. I don't think very many people use the sounds from the brain ( somehow that sounds funny)  when using digital drums. The difference is a matter of using a real drum like interface to input the data as opposed to using loops or a midi keyboard. 

You actually need to PLAY the drums.

 So this song was my first song attempt using a set of digital drums -- as an input device.    
Using the sounds from the drums involves either playing perfectly ( not me yet! ) or re recording the midi data sent back to the brain and audio recorded from brain - which I will do later this week and re post. 

2013/01/20 19:51:56
Scottytunes
Aha! Now it's making sense.
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