Drumagog Discussion Board

Drumagog will play .wav and .aif files. Make your own or get other libraries. There are a 'bunch' of good free sounds available AFTER you purchase. Aside from all that. Drumagog will generate MIDI to play BFD or DFHS or Larry Seyer Acoustic Drums. There is NO shortage of high-quality drum sounds ava...

The above is basically how I do it in Cubase on a PC.

It does work great. The latency is an easy work around.

I believe the best way right now to utilize Drumagog and BFD is the way I do it. I use the MIDI out from Drumagog to play BFD. You can start with the original audio track, say a kick, and insert Drumagog. Go to the 'ADVANCED' page select MIDI out, select the MIDI note (that corresponds to the MIDI n...

Awesome system! I believe that you are right that Drumagog always NEEDS a sample loaded. I didn't think about that but I do always have something loaded in Drumagog (usually the techno/909 kick that comes with Drumagog) since I only use the BFD sounds. I seem to remember that I tried to have Drumago...

Sounds like you are doing what I do a lot. Quickly, I have a pretty fast PC with Cubase 5, RME Digiface and Drumagog playing BFD. I use my PC mostly for drum replacing and running GigaStudio. I just 'print' the MIDI tracks and manually nudge them back. The latency is consistent so nudging back works...

Do you have the 'SYNTH' section on with noise selected?

"I should probably look into "printing" the output of Drumagog onto another track." Most definitely! Just record to an adjacent track and then disengage the original audio track and included plug-ins. This way you can easily 'revisit' the track if necessary and free up some comp...

I don't know what your budget is, but for $300, I'd recommend BFD.

Do you have Gigastudio 3? The Larry Seymour Acoustic Drums are 'extensive'.

You can read my long-winded technique:

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I'm not usually interested in saving money, rather making it.

Also, for me, it takes as much time as it needs to be done 'right'.

Why do you need all those compressors, limiters and more BEFORE Drumagog? You might be trying too hard. Too much processing BEFORE Drumagog. What is it that you are trying to compensate for BEFORE Drumagog? More information needed. You might be better off generating MIDI from Drumagog, writing a MID...

"Why wouldn't you just compress the audio before Drumagog sees it?" That may help. I don't have this volume differential if I use a sample (i.e., kick, snare) within Drumagog. It's when I am generating MIDI from Drumagog, or playing BFD or GigaStudio from Drumagog. Maybe there's a velocit...

The 'dynamic tracking' doesn't have any effect on the MIDI velocities. I can get 'hotter' MIDI velocities by increasing the 'input' level on page one. However, the MIDI velocity levels still vary too much for me. Maybe it's my personal taste that I don't like that much dynamics. :? Even if I raise t...

Drum replacing is an art, not a science. It sounds as if you are 'reinforcing' instead of replacing. If you are doing a total replace, I'd say you will NOT notice a difference in the overall performance. However, if you are reinforcing the original sound with an additional sound, you'll do best by r...

Yes you can. I use Cubase 5, Drumagog and BFD. I do a bit of a convoluted method but essentially you can do what you are asking. My method starts with the drums in Pro Tools on my Mac. I usually have the drum tracks brought to me as I do not record live drums in my room. I then transfer the audio in...