Comping and Flex with Multitrack Drums in Logic Studio 9

It took me a while to figure out a good and fast workflow. We recorded the drums in Pro Tools, so getting the recorded drums into Logic for comfortable comping and flexing is a bit tricky. If you do it this way, it's like you had recorded the drums in Logic and you can easily switch between comping (selecting the best bits of each take) with the quick-swipe feature and flex (adjusting timing, quantizing, etc.).

More Details here: http://www.gearslutz.com/board/music-computers/451221-2010-drum-editing-logic...

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• Logic
• Logic Studio
• Pro Tools
• comping
• flex
• quantize
• quantizing
• drum
• editing
• drums
• stretch
• fix
• timing
• edit

[deafeningmrm]

great great great, thanks alot! really helpful, now ill give flextime a shot in metal drums :-) really excited how its goin to work. any bad experiences with sound/artifacts?

greetings from germany

[HamachingoTech]

@deafeningmrm Bad experiences? Yes, when you have a tempo change in the project and flex is on, that flex note will strech/contact right at the tempo change and sound terrible. I usually copy the regions to a new track, turn flex off, cut out the critical note and glue it in. Very annoying though.

Greetings from Germany too, check out my main channel (hamachingo)

[UKNOWIT88]

I'm in the same situation, we recorded in pro tools, now editing in logic. How are you actually transfering the files? why not OMF? It looks like all of your files were exported from pro tools as individual wavs. Does that have an advantage?

[HamachingoTech]

@UKNOWIT88 The original session was all in Logic, we spontaneously decided to record actual drums instead of samples/MIDI, but the studio only had Pro Tools. I exported simplified WAVs from Logic (click track, bass, lead vocal, backing vocal, guitar1, guitar 2) so I can adjust the mix for the drummer. Dragged those files into ProTools and recorded the drums on new tracks, all beginning at beat 0. I wrote down the filenames of the good takes and dragged the audio files right into Logic.

[close60]

so if you have the room mic of take 6 and the snare of take 4 they are not gonna be in sync unless by luck. so whats the point of flex time stretching all the takes at once. doesn't that make it worse in some situations? it would be fine if you weren't using room mics at all. or if you comp the room mic last and flex it separately. ???

[HamachingoTech]

@close60 When the "phase locked editing" checkbox in the group settings is checked, the flex markers are made on the actual transients of every track, i.e. the marker on the snare mic is a bit earlier than on the room mic for a snare hit. The time relation between the snare mic and room mic is constant unless you move the mics during recording.

Flexing regions separately will screw up this timing relation and cause horrible phase cancellations, I only do that when really necessary.

[blaqmalay]

Really cool way to recreate comp folders. I've been wondering how to do that. Good idea with the colour labels as well. Thanks a lot.

[JedidiahProductions]

Thanks man! Just what I needed!

[DESTINEAK]

Thanks applying it right now!!!!

[kavemanism]

1000 thank yous my logical friend :)

[WouterNieuw]

Yes! Thanks for this video! I've been looking for that small checkbox that you mention just before 4:00 for hours!

[deafeningmrm]

I have some experience to add for your Video: for example (as in my case) you get to know this feature AFTER having recorded a drumsession, and you already edited (f.e. cut,...) your drum-tracks, it's most important to have all files in your take-folders at exactly the same length! so f.e. take1_bd and take1_snare in their several take-folders should be exactly at the same length. took me a while to figure that out, but now everything with quickswipe-comping's working again the way it should :-)

[UKNOWIT88]

@HamachingoTech ok. thanx for the response!