long4theblur wrote:Pro Tools. Don't you have an electronic set? How did you overcome this issue?
MIDI motherfucker. If you're using an electronic drumset you're using electronic drum sounds anyway. You just use sounds in a VST program like Drumkit From Hell instead of the ones on your module. You aren't recording audio though, you're recording MIDI. But you can still mix it like audio though, but in the program itself.
A MIDI signal recognizes only two things "pitch" (that's an algorithm that says "if you strike this note on the piano, that equals the same note on the instrument" but for an electronic drumset you are turning it into "if I hit THIS pad, it equals this sound) and "velocity" (that says "I hit this key or this pad this hard so the tone it makes should be this loud"). In a program like Logic, the drum sounds are in the piano roll but instead of actual notes, the 'E flat' note on the piano roll is actually a snare drum sound. So you go in there and you simply adjust the velocity of the MIDI after it's recorded.
Some VST programs and sequencers treat each pad trigger as its own track. You simply assign the MIDI signal from each trigger on your module to a track and then assign a single sound to each of those tracks, like a kick drum, a snare, or a crash cymbal. Then you can mix the sequencer tracks like you would an audio track. The cool thing, of course, is if you don't like a given snare drum sound, you simply substitute it instead of rerecording it since MIDI is NOT audio.
