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my mac pro odyssey (or..."i believe in harvey dent")

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bump : a little update on how awesome my mac is :smug: . ive been recording drums - 22 tracks at 24 bit/96khz, nice and smooth, like butter with still only 2gig of ram - and we've started triggering the toms as well, and recording that.

see, the mics we're using are small diaphram condensers on the toms, and they seem to favor the high frequencies of the cymbal-salad that my drummer has going on with his kit. that can tend, at times, to overpower the tom hit. i've sampled all his drums, and i record, on a single midi track, 12 triggers corresponding to his main snare, two bass drums and 9 toms. this way, i can mix in a sample at the appropriate time and bring up the tom hits without getting too cymbal-happy, if i need to.

i can also overlay neato samples for certain parts - a cascade of 10 notes of male vocal "ah" samples, for instance, to correspond to the bass drum and toms. overlayed with the recorded toms it sounds badass. i built a cool sample for the bass drum by combining a brief snip of the sustain of the low f# on one of my basses with a hammer hitting a metal pole, and then dropped a few octaves. w00t. fun times. and the cool thing is all of it is getting recorded together - the drum performance, the triggered midi notes, everything. i know it's not rocket science, but it's a new experience for me and giving me a chance to make some cool stuff.

of course, it also makes this thread music related, so i guess i better stop heh.
 
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john turner said:
bump : a little update on how awesome my mac is :smug: . ive been recording drums - 22 tracks at 24 bit/96khz, nice and smooth, like butter with still only 2gig of ram - and we've started triggering the toms as well, and recording that.

see, the mics we're using are small diaphram condensers on the toms, and they seem to favor the high frequencies of the cymbal-salad that my drummer has going on with his kit. that can tend, at times, to overpower the tom hit. i've sampled all his drums, and i record, on a single midi track, 12 triggers corresponding to his main snare, two bass drums and 9 toms. this way, i can mix in a sample at the appropriate time and bring up the tom hits without getting too cymbal-happy, if i need to.

i can also overlay neato samples for certain parts - a cascade of 10 notes of male vocal "ah" samples, for instance, to correspond to the bass drum and toms. overlayed with the recorded toms it sounds badass. i built a cool sample for the bass drum by combining a brief snip of the sustain of the low f# on one of my basses with a hammer hitting a metal pole, and then dropped a few octaves. w00t. fun times. and the cool thing is all of it is getting recorded together - the drum performance, the triggered midi notes, everything. i know it's not rocket science, but it's a new experience for me and giving me a chance to make some cool stuff.

of course, it also makes this thread music related, so i guess i better stop heh.
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Nice John. I often use midi hits to enhance live drums. I just eq pre-recorded ones, and keep it down in the mix. It works kind of the same way without all the pre-recorded hit stuff.
 
#107
Thunderscreech said:
Does your Mac Pro have 10 GIGS OF RAM, jt?
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actually, not yet. i haven't noticed a need for it yet, believe it or not.

i opened up the biggest protools session of lord only's music, which is a 32 track session that is ~35 minutes long (the first 4 songs on the jukebox on the lord only myspace page are actually considered one "Song" as far as that session, and mix, are concerned) and i had no problem whatsoever navigating.

i thought it would be like steering a bus through a parkinglot, but it actually worked fine.

that being said, i fully intend to get the 8 gig more ram eventually, but i've just had more pressing priorities up until now (like spending money i've had, when i had it, on new pedals :hyper: ) it's only about 175 bucks, give or take, to get the 8 gig, so it's not like it's going to be that unreasonable.

shoot, just to be a wiseacre i might get more. it's so cheap.
 

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