A tutorial on how to use beatcraft to render separate WAV tracks for each drum instrument. Video also shows how to bring them into Mixcraft. This allows complete flexibility of each drum sound when mixing in Mixcraft or any DAW.
What I normally do is use the entire drum render as a reference track first. Once tracking is done for all other instruments and I know the drums are right I'll go back and render each drum separately. Just have to make sure you line up the separate drum tracks to the beginning of the song so they're in sync.
Important: When rendering each drum instrument turn remove all processing from Beatcraft and pan to center. You want the drums flat so you can process them in your DAW. Last thing. You will have to test the volume setting in Beatcraft when rendering each track to make sure info sonic info is rendered. I use 48000/24bit/Stereo when rendering these. Experiment! Enjoy!
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Wednesday, November 23, 2011
New EP Session 4
Worked on the mix of the main song some more last night. I rendered separate tracks for each drum instrument from Beatcraft and then we worked on getting just the sound on all of them. What we do is use a combined drum render for tracking then go back to fix any drum parts that need to be tightened up. When we have it right we render each drum to its own track to give us control of each. You can watch a video on this but clicking the link in the last sentence.
We also started to plan out the panning of the song. I'm going to be doing a video on panning drums so watch out for that. It's amazing... it took us 2 days to track the song... and will probably take at least 2 weeks to mix.
Mixing is really an art form in my humble opinion. You seem to have it right on your studio monitors when playing on your DAW. The you mix down to high quality WAV that sounds right. But the you listen on your iPod and it's missing important sonic info. It's a incremental process but it's really my favorite part of it.
It's cool to mix with my son too. He knows how he wants it to sound but is also learning. Looking forward to putting in more mix time over the holiday weekend.
We also started to plan out the panning of the song. I'm going to be doing a video on panning drums so watch out for that. It's amazing... it took us 2 days to track the song... and will probably take at least 2 weeks to mix.
Mixing is really an art form in my humble opinion. You seem to have it right on your studio monitors when playing on your DAW. The you mix down to high quality WAV that sounds right. But the you listen on your iPod and it's missing important sonic info. It's a incremental process but it's really my favorite part of it.
It's cool to mix with my son too. He knows how he wants it to sound but is also learning. Looking forward to putting in more mix time over the holiday weekend.
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