Bleed is something to be controlled, not something that has to be completely removed. But that is a good thing as long as the drums/sound good.
So the overhead mics are always going to bleed. I can't remember the last time I used the actual kick mic.īut the nice thing about trigger is you can also blend the sample with the live so you don't get too sterile sounding. I almost always record live with kick trigger. I am surprised how little latency the program causes. There you can record numerous samples of varying velocity and create triggers from your own individual drums. That is a way you can send signal from say a tom that triggers the snare sample, and it will ignore those.īoth versions come with a separate program called Trigger Instrument Editor. And I like the bigger Trigger 2 Platinum version GUI much better. There is a cheaper $99 EX version but much less choice of samples. Your best bet there for acoustic drums would be Steven Slate Trigger 2. jimmys69 is probably the man to talk to for further recommendations. SSD is capable of loading user samples I know that for sure.
You'd need to use drum trigger/sample software in conjunction with a midi drum kit, or some kind of midi input instrument.ĭoing so would also open up the possibility of manually drawing/editing performances and/or using midi loops from elsewhere. The straight forward answer is yes.You can do what you're asking. Slate Digital Steven Slate Drums Trigger Ex Drum Replacer And Sample Library Plug-Ins Slate Digital’s Trigger EX drum sample library is a package deal that includes their next-generation drum replacement VST/RTAS/AU plug-in, Trigger, as well as the drum sample collection Steven Slate Drums’ Signature Drum Kits EX Edition.Trigger Advanced Drum ReplacerSlate Trigger is an exceptional way. Never one to discourage experimentation and independent thought, but SSD or addictive drums or something is going to do this a lot better than any of us could.and a lot easier too. Is it important to capture your kit, or do you just want access to a kit without bleed? Maybe that's ideal for what you're doing? You'll get the dreaded machine-gun-effect.Īgain, that's genre dependent. No variations between hitting dead centre or closer to the rim, light/soft/hard etc. Next is that the performance will sound unnatural, particularly on repeat hits/rolls because every instance of each piece of the kit is identical. No real room mic or overheads.never mind the bleed. Manually tracking independent hits may sound unnatural as a whole because there's nothing glueing it together. I mean there are limits, sure, but it's something to consider.
The first is probably the one you're not interested in but, genre dependent, bleed is usually good! There's a few approaches here and a few things to consider.