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Novice Drum Programming Question. FL or Loops...

  • 19-01-2009 10:05PM
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    seachto7
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    I did a search to see if I could find what I needed, but no luck. Anyways, I'm using Ableton to record stuff, and I'm a relative novice. I've got my guitars, plug in synths etc, recorded to a click/metronome, so no worries there.

    However, the time has come to record drums, and it's a bloody nightmare. I'm using FL studio as a plugin and sampletank within FL. It just sounds strange. The kick sounds like it's a millisecond too slow. It sounds ever so slightly slower than where it should be. I made sure to record to a click, so everything could be lined up tempo wise. Snare etc are ok.

    When I create a pattern, and press play, it seems that where I heard the beats in my headphones, and when the cursor/line passes over them seem to be in a different place.

    Anyways, after much @rsing about, I'm still hummin and hawin. Now, granted there's a learning curve...

    So, I had a disc of loops, and tried out one or two, and they sound good and spot on time as well, so I might go down that road for the time being until I figure out FL.

    I'd like to record drums/beats similar to what's on Thom Yorke's "Eraser", so not a stright ahead kit.

    But a thought came into my head. Would it be worth getting a drum machine, and recording it into Ableton, or is a drum machine essentially what I have on my laptop..

    I just have this idea a drum machine could be programmed first, then just fed into Ableton, and I could add any colourings using FL and sampletank...

    Any advice for me?

    Thanks if you can help.

    I haven't mentioned make of laptop etc. as I don't think that's an issue here..


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