Getting Serious About Drum Processing in Rob Papen's Punch

Does the world really need another drum synth? If we're talking about Rob Papen's Punch, then the answer is YES. Check out this video to see how to divide up your drum parts in Punch and process each individually. Top-drawer stuff.

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• drum
• dnb
• Rob Papen
• Native Instruments
• vst
• NI Battery
• electronic
• experimental
• ambient

[bertthepickle]

It's nice but you can do all that in a standard Ableton Drum Rack. Or even in an Audio Rack. Easy enough to add individual FX to each drum sound. And the process is a lot simpler than all of these ins and outs needed for the VST.

[bkallmer]

@bertthepickle Good point, Bert—Drum Racks are extremely powerful. Sometimes I find it refreshing to use a different VST, though... can be helpful for breaking out of a workflow rut.

[ltitruck12]

Nice, but what vst are u using??

[bkallmer]

@ltitruck12 I'm using Ableton 8 with Rob Papen's Punch.

[MadStevenNL]

@bertthepickle Punch keeps this all in one VST. With an excellent effect section as well. You can do what it does in Ableton,, but to fully emulate Punch you'll need Drum Rack, Analogue, Sampler, Drum Machines, the distortion, the reverb, the chorus, the delay and I guess even more than that...

So in short: yes, you can do this all with Ableton (Session), but

a) It will take you longer

b) It will sound different

[MonoPolyST73]

Come on, individual multi-outs are nothing new..! ;-)

[MiamiDJTV]

@bertthepickle unfortunately Ableton drum rack has a serious bug that causes Delay compensation to stop working. Layer up a drum rack filled with effects and all that, run a linear phase test on it, it will piss u off.

Or just try and apply Cytomic Glue plugin or any heavy cpu intensive plugin on drum rack and check its timing.

[DaSperminatorRob]

The Program is cool if you like Programming stuff, personally I dont have the time or patience for that..Id rather just use drum patches off my guitar processor- makes life a whole lot simpler that way.