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I'm discovering that it's not so easy to get stuff played in to line up either.

Stan



Yep, you have to be enough of a player to have good timekeeping ability. There's help for that though, it's called quantizing. What that does is move your recorded note to the nearest beat or sub beat that you set ahead of time. Example if you set the quantize rate to a quarter note then no matter what you played in a given bar, everything gets moved to the nearest quarter. Not good at all. Typically, you might set it for an eight note or even sixteenth. Then there's room for a little slop and that makes it sound more human. One trick I used to do is record the kick drum by itself and depending on the beat quantize it to the quarter note and that gives you a foundation to play with for the rest of the kit. I'm sure whatever program you use lets you quantize one part at a time. Still, if you're not experienced at this trying to create your own drum parts from scratch is not easy. This is why a lot of us wind up using prerecorded midi drum parts or modified Biab drum parts. They've available all over the place including a lot of free downloads. Downloaded midi files that you can find all over the web are good for that too. Many times you may find a midi file where the instrument parts sound terrible, like they were done by a 5 year old, but the drum part is good. All you do then is copy a few bars of the drum part to a new project and do your own instrument parts. That's what's cool about midi. As long as that part was recorded to the tempo set in the original file then when you copy it to a new project it will change to whatever tempo you have set.

Bob

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