Drum Sound Replacement

A video which describes how to replace drum sounds using Cubase 5, KTFX KTDrumTrigger and Toontrack Superior Drummer 2.0.
Normally I work with real triggers and a trigger-to-midi-converter, but a few people asked me how the KTDrumTrigger plugin works so here is the video.
Of course you can set up the plugin so that it creates usable velocity information, too, but I don't show that in this video. For more info check the readme of the plugin.
If you can't find the plugin on the internet, send me a message with your e-mail address and I will send you the plugin.

Got questions? Leave a comment!

Category:

Music

Tags:

• drum
• trigger
• triggering
• midi
• converter
• music
• drums
• snare
• bass
• audio
• cubase
• vst
• plugin

[szukalski81]

Hi, I thought its only me, I can see you have the same prob with triggered midi notes not in proper position. Why is this happening do you know? I think i've tried everything and the're still out of sync. This is very strange because the're in sync when doing the same on nuendo ver. 3!!! Any ideas? I'd love to find solution for this as I'm dying to switch to cubase 5 and nuendo 4.

thnx!!!

[coder2k]

@szukalski81 Hi!

Well, all the "gadges" that can convert trigger to midi (no matter if it's this plugin or the Roland TMC-6 which I normally use), the all have a certain latency. They need time to recognize the hit. But I don't really understand, why the notes coming from this plugin aren't placed correctly. Perhaps it doesn't inform Cubase about the right latency. But I didn't see that working in any other host....so I guess I can't help you.

[szukalski81]

@coder2k Hi

Thanks for your reply. Yes, I'm aware of the latency issue but what I'm talking about with this one is completely random. Which makes this plugin prettty much useless. Which is too bad because its fantastic plug, better than drumagog in my opinion. Yes, I've been thinking that plug doesnt give cubase it's own latency information. This is really too bad because this ktdrumtrigger is by far the only plug that did good for me on very busy tom fills. Whats your opinion on Drumag

Regards

[coder2k]

@szukalski81 Hmm....as you can see in my video the latency isn't "random". It's constant, at least for each instance. So e.g. all the bass drum triggers are 2ms too late. That's no problem because you can move the MIDI notes all by 2ms to the left. Of couse it's useless when you want live triggering. But there's nothing random in my opinion.

I never tried Drumagog because I don't like the concept of included sounds. I just want to use external samplers. Also I prefer triggering during recording.

[vegardertilbake1]

Nice tutorial. Ive been studying this video now for a while now. Hopefully i remember everything when i get in the studio. - Ill post a comment later

[szukalski81]

@coder2k Hi

Thanks for your reply. Yes, I'm aware of the latency issue but what I'm talking about with this one is completely random. Which makes this plugin prettty much useless. Which is too bad because its fantastic plug, better than drumagog in my opinion. Yes, I've been thinking that plug doesnt give cubase it's own latency information. This is really too bad because this ktdrumtrigger is by far the only plug that did good for me on very busy tom fills. Whats your opinion on Drumagog?

[szukalski81]

@coder2k Hi

Thanks for your reply. Yes, I'm aware of the latency issue but what I'm talking about with this one is completely random. Which makes this plugin prettty much useless. Which is too bad because its fantastic plug, better than drumagog in my opinion. Yes, I've been thinking that plug doesnt give cubase it's own latency information. This is really too bad because this ktdrumtrigger is by far the only plug that did good for me on very busy tom fills. Whats your opinion on Druma

Regards

[herrhammer]

perfect tut!!! thx!!!