#MIXING SUPERIOR DRUMMER 2.0 SOFTWARE#
#MIXING SUPERIOR DRUMMER 2.0 LICENSE#

#MIXING SUPERIOR DRUMMER 2.0 SOFTWARE#

Superior Drummer 3 is the ultimate drum sample software available today. shape into your own mixes within the powerful framework of Superior Drummer 3.

#MIXING SUPERIOR DRUMMER 2.0 LICENSE#

Superior Drummer 3 is Toontrack’s brand new flagship drum sample software and features a host of ground breaking features including a 230GB core drum library, custom stacking and importing, enhanced MIDI groove searching and tagging, Tap2Find, a built in Grid Editor, an expanded Song Track and Song Creator, 35 mixer effects, macro controls, audio to MIDI conversion and enhanced e-drum features. A Superior Drummer 3 license is required. If you’re looking to get more into the creative side of Superior Drummer 3 and start making your own custom kits, watch “ Superior Drummer 3 Tips & Tricks Vol 1” today! This collection focuses on Stacking, Tuning, Independent Selection, and Mixing Presets, for creating your own sounds that stand out from the rest, and make for inspiring productions. Much better than triggering the samples from the actual plugin.Luke Oswald reveals some of his favorite tips and tricks for creating new sounds within the the first volume of the Superior Drummer 3 – Tips and Tricks series. I know I have to get the sequence right, the feel right, and only then bounce, so that I don't want to change it and need to bounce again.Īnd the bounced sounds are simply amazing, totally real. It forces me to make a decision on the drums and drum sounds now and forever. Maybe I'm doing something wrong.ĭo you do gain staging with the drum audio tracks? Do you just leave it at the level it's bounced or trim a little? I found that trimming hihat and OH I get fantastic results, much less harshness, then I can ride faders and compress much more.Įven what you consider a trouble (wanting to change sequence) I consider a plus. I adjust bleed in the SD02 mixer (specially hi hats on the OHs and room) but somehow it's there after I bounce. Relatively simple and quick, compared to others (NI Abbery Road, Studio Drummer, SSD kontakt) where you have to spend time routing audio to subs etc. It's actually the best drum library for bouncing drum tracks. Overall though I prefer to bounce to disk before I mix the drums but after I have finalised the sequences.I bounce too.

The trouble comes in where you want to change something in the drum sequence then you gotta bounce it all again and import, which is a PITA. I find that I can get drum tracks finished very quickly this way and they always end up being mixed much better. I have ultimate control over the drums mix in this way. I can then import the audio into the DAW and mix the drums. Right now I bounce to disk with everything switched on and everything separated bypassing the SD2 mixer. Here's a song my band just released mixed this way. If I want a super crisp closed hat I may layer in 808 hats as well. Sometimes I'll also add some 808 to the snare.

Here I will often add a layer of 909 to the kick from Gold Baby's tape drums. Then these all go to a drum bus and I start sifting through samples to really match the music. There's just so much more to choose from here.

Overheads: This is where the real cymbals and room mics go, or on occasion it will be an instance of S2. I start with 5 instrument tracks and split the original midi over those tracks. When I have my guitars, bass and keys finished I'll really go in and tweak the drum sounds. Once the drums are 90% done, I leave them and finish the rest of the music. The close mics are only triggers for Superior/Slate etc.įor the times when I don't have a real drum performance I usually sequence the drums with a single instance using a goto S2 kit. In that case I almost always only use the overheads, cymbals, room etc. Now, most of the time I'm working with a real drum kit and replacing with samples. Luckily my Retina MBP can handle as many instances as I need. But I can't be limited to the internal mixer either. I don't like to bounce because I will often change the performance or samples at the last second. But I need a separate instance for each category of the kit. For me mixing and recording/producing happen at the same time.

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