Recording Drums

How do I Record a drum rythm in real time but keep kicks, snares, etc. on seperate tracks? and once on seperate tracks can I move and adjust them seperatly? Ex. Move the whole track of kicks to a different point in the sequence or adjust the volume of them.

I'm not sure if you can record on different tracks at once. If you can, I haven't gotten into that yet.

What I do is the kick and snare on one track. Then seperate them. Then do the hats on the third track and then anything else I want to add.

Yes, once on different tracks you can do those things to them.

how do you go about separating the kick and snare that are on the same track?

So I can record a track of kicks and snares onto one track and then seperate them, add hats and they will all play on time and together. How do you seperate the tracks? What I have been doing is overdubbing each sound and I wanted each instrument seperate so I can alter them and move them if possible.

So you can seperate two sounds on one track (eg. kicks and snares) making seperate tracks for each sound (kick track and snare track)? How?

AI934 wrote:What I have been doing is overdubbing each sound and I wanted each instrument seperate so I can alter them and move them if possible.

When I read that what I'm thinking is you need to press rec and play (not overdub and play) and record each instrument on individual tracks. Sounds a bit simple though, maybe I don't understand your question fully..?

make a sequence using all of your drum sounds on one single track, copy that sequence to as many seperate tracks as the drum sounds you are using... then go to each new copied track and delete the unwanted sounds out leaving the desired sound on each desired track...

there may be an easier way but this is the only way i have found to accomplish this...

it sucks recording drums one track at a time, you kind of lose the vibe...

good luck..

Record your drums.

Then go to Edit (F2 on Main Screen). Copy the track to as many other tracks as needed.

Then moving along each track, press the "Erase" button and select which sounds/pads you want erased from that track.

Simple.

i thought thats what i just explained, not sure which mpc hes usin though so i dont know all the actual buttons...

spectre wrote:Record your drums.

Then go to Edit (F2 on Main Screen). Copy the track to as many other tracks as needed.

Then moving along each track, press the "Erase" button and select which sounds/pads you want erased from that track.

Simple.

ther's a much easier way. Just record each sound to a different track in the first place. If all your sounds are comming from the same midi chanel,
it's the same principle. for example, if your drum sounds are on midi channel one of the synth thats pluggerd into port A just go to track one inn the mpc and select port A, midi channel 1 and record say a kick. then go to track two on the mpc and select port A, midi channel 1 and record the snare, and so on, track three the hats on port A midi channel 1. then if you got a bass line on midi channel two of the same instrument, go to track three of the mpc and select port A, midi channel two. Tracks are like building blocks and you can just record track to track. If you got a second synth and it's hooked on port b and you want an orchestral sound which is on midi channel one, go to track four of the mpc and choose Port B midi channel one and hit record.

Then once you got your tracks built up, that makes up a sequence. You can copy the whole sequence and then if you want to take away the snare, just mute that track and so on. If you want to stick the snare back in, go to the sequence where the mute on the snare is off and so on....

I think the whole point was that he wanted to record everything at once... Like banging out the whole drum pattern. I usually record at least the bass drum and the snare at the same time, and then proceed to copy the tracks.

As a drummer I can get more of a live feel into the patterns that way.

yes...

recording drums one track at a time is kinda weak, you lose the feel of the rhythm...

Yes, what i wanted to do was record drums a once and then seperate them, as Cheech and fobedafied said I get a better feel and rhythm this way. Copying and Erasing does the trick, I appriciate the help. THANKS

fobedafied wrote:i thought thats what i just explained, not sure which mpc hes usin though so i dont know all the actual buttons...

I think I went into a bit more detail. That's it.

fobedafied wrote:yes...

recording drums one track at a time is kinda weak, you lose the feel of the rhythm...

hello mpc'ers,

I'd say that it's subjective....it totally depends on how you work. might be weak for some, yet might be a quicker way to work for others. Of course if you are just banging a beat with no quantize on and want a live feel, then it may be good to record it all in one and weak to record track per track but if you are using any sort of time correction then it makes no difference cause it's gonna have the feel of the quantize setting you are using anyway... so might as well just bang it track by track, as I said, it's a matter of taste and there aint no right, stong, weak or, isht way to do things.

There are also certain things you can only do track by track, you aint banging the mpc like you bang drums cause with drums your feet move the kick and then you got two hands for the stick when you play drums.....

Try also to use the 16levels with more than one sound... it won't work... cause you only have one sound with 16levels. YOu guys should definately check it out cause that feature alone can give you some serious feel, so all in all, I don't think it's that weak.... that's just personal...

peace

yea,

i see what your saying, but to me its more fun to bang out the rhythm as you go and then seperate the tracks later... just seems more cohesive to the way i work... different strokes for different folks though...