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Hi all
I have Biab 2010.5 and I use real drums for my songs. I have a situation where in the middle of a song I would like all the background instruments to mute (I know how to do this) but I would also like the drums to continue with hi hat only keeping the beat for a couple of measures. Is there an easy way to this?
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Unfortunately not with Real Drums. The RD's and RT's are prerecorded audio tracks that Biab chops up according to your input on the chord grid. That alone is an amazing accomplishment but still limited. You can't fine tune an audio track like that. Unless there's a RD part that was recorded as hi hat only, you're stuck. Think of it like one of you're favorite commercial CD's. Imagine if you're question was about taking one of the tracks of that CD and changing the drums. Same thing.
What you can do is put the song into Real Band and create a 2 bar midi hi hat part and if you have a good quality midi synth use that. I have Jamstix and the drum kits sound just as good as the RD's but since all the hits are just samples triggered via midi I still don't get the full on live feel of a RD track but it works well for a case like this. I mix midi punches and fills with RD tracks all the time but you need a sequencer for that, not Biab.
Bob
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Thanks for the reply
I suspected that but I am wanted to make sure I was not missing something. I usually arrange the drums and base in BIAB, them move to Real Band to add my audio tracks. I will just record those parts in Real Band on audio tracks , no problem.
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Jeff
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Bob, Not totally true. If you analyze the drum wav files you'll note that it would be fairly easy to isolate just the HH. Once you copy this section and save it you can then "roll your own" RD pattern. I've done this with the snare so I can do a "surf beat" in songs. Jeff there's a nice tutorial on "rolling your own" RD. This is a great feature that is totally over looked. There's a very good Acid disc of Mic Fleetwood drum loops that can quite easily  be made into RDs.
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OOPS forgot I was in BIAB
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