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Date: 13-Aug-01 @ 10:25 AM -
RE: Tech-ed up drum beats?
Are you using cubase or a similar sequencer?
If so then you need to get a compressor like the db-audio compressor or the mda one. Both of these allow you to send and receive triggers.
You can read about how compression and gating works in the articles section under fx-articles.
I'll give you a working example though.
You need the kick to go through a separate channel of it's own and the drum sounds to go through a channel of their own.
Load a compressor as an insert effect into the kick channel and set it like this.
threshold=0db
limit/ratio=infinity (no compression)
output=0db
send/trigger=send A (or similar)
this isn't doing anything to the sound of the kick all it is doing is triggering the compressor on the drums channel.
on the drums channel load another compressor as an insert effect.
threshold=-10db
ratio=1/8
output=whatever to gain enough withoug clipping
attack=0ms
release=20 to 50ms
receive=A (has to match the kick send)
now on the drums channel the compressor will only work when the kick plays, without the kick the sound passes through unprocessed.
On my track (and most techno tracks) you can hear his when the kick drops out the sound boosts in volume. Changing the settings of the compressor on the drums channel will change the feel of the pumping effect, a lower threshold (2db say) and a lower ratio (1/1.2 say) will give a less prominent pump. Also the volume and shape of the kick envelope will affect the compression time.
Hope this helps.