Jason is back with a new two part Pro Tools Micro Lecture. When your recordings have less-than-ideal drum sounds, or when you need to create entirely new drum sounds on your track, or enhance the ones that are already there, drum replacement techniques go a long way. Although dedicated software does exist to automatically replace drum sounds inside Pro Tools or your favoured digital audio workstation, this software can be unpredictable and occasionally does not work that well.
In this two part Microlecture, we are going to look at a technique of manually replacing drum sounds using MIDI notes and existing DAW software. As well as showing you how to accurately place MIDI notes in the desired positions, we address some of the technical and performance issues that occur. We create realistic drum performances by using simple velocity variation and we also solve annoying flamming problems using MIDI offsets.
This Microlecture uses Pro tools as the main DAW, but this same technique can be used on virtually any digital workstation including Reason, Logic, Nuendo, Ableton, and Reaper. We also use Native Instruments Battery for our new drum sounds, but you can use any MIDI instrument to give you your desired drum sound.
Jason de Wilde is the Head of Audio at the Australian Institute of Music. He has been instructing audio engineering around the globe for over 20 years.
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The Bachelor of Music (Audio) is a thorough and complete study of sound engineering and music technology.
Major Studies
Combines three technology streams:
1. Audio
Focuses on the theoretical aspects of sound engineering including; acoustics, perception of hearing, digital audio, sampling, electronics and system design.
2. Recording
Focuses on the practical techniques of recording and mixing sound. Students undertake practical classes in AIM's numerous recording studios, completing their own recording projects in each of these units. Projects increase in complexity as students progress through the course.
3. Digital
Focuses on the software used in the field of sound and music production. All units are undertaken in the Digital Media lab with access to digital audio workstations.
Ensemble
In a small group setting, teamwork skills of collaboration and communication are developed as performance is focused on awareness, preparation andcommitment to common goals.
Associated Studies
Students select associated studies from a range of performance, production, management, media and technology units to either focus their music education or explore wider opportunities.
Academic Studies
All Bachelor of Music students undertake a series of Academic Studies units. These units cover theoretical and aural musicianship as well as historical and cultural studies of music. In the Foundation stages (1--2) of the degree, students cover a broad range of music styles and genres, including western art music and contemporary popular music. In the Industry stages (3--6) of the degree, students are able to focus their critical thinking in a variety of specialist areas including contemporary, jazz, baroque, classical, romantic, avant garde, music theatre, film, roots music, world music and latin music.
Collaboration
With a network of more than 1200 performance, production and management students and unsurpassed performance, production and teaching facilities, AIM courses promote creative collaboration essential to career success, setting AIM graduates apart.
Q Recording Studios
With the best in digital and vintage analog production equipment, Q Studios is our state-of-the-art recording facility, custom designed and built into AIM's main campus. Recordings can be captured from the fully equipped studio spaces, from any control room in the facility, with video monitoring and the ability to record live performances.