Help with recording electronic drums

[bburgess42]

I've been a studio musician for five years now and am finally getting into the production side. In my recently built studio I have an electronic drumkit with a Roland TD-12 module. The TD-12 has a midi out, but I'm disappointed because it only has two RCA out rather than an out for each drum piece that it takes in.

I got the kit to avoid the bleed you get from an acoustic one, but I hope to not be so limited in my mixing capabilities do to the lack of outs (other than the midi)

Does anyone have any recommendations on recording an electronic drumkit to computer based systems with this (specifically Samplitude)?

Can I get use the RCA's? Or will I have to use the midi and buy a program to work with it?

Thanks,

B

[firby]

Originally Posted by bburgess42

I've been a studio musician for five years now and am finally getting into the production side. In my recently built studio I have an electronic drumkit with a Roland TD-12 module. The TD-12 has a midi out, but I'm disappointed because it only has two RCA out rather than an out for each drum piece that it takes in.

I got the kit to avoid the bleed you get from an acoustic one, but I hope to not be so limited in my mixing capabilities do to the lack of outs (other than the midi)

Does anyone have any recommendations on recording an electronic drumkit to computer based systems with this (specifically Samplitude)?

Can I get use the RCA's? Or will I have to use the midi and buy a program to work with it?

Thanks,

B

Generally I do it in Logic and this is how it goes.

Record the drum part as midi. Run the split track midi command that splits the midi track into its separate elements. Now you have a midi track for snare, bass drum, hihat blah blah blah. Then record those elements to audio singly and do you typical eq compression or whatever.

The trick is to split the midi information into separate tracks.

[DreamSound]

You know I have the same question, I'm gonna experiment with midi and compare with the sounds from the TD-12. The V0Stage its 'good' but I'd love to hear more DFH Supeior realism. Maybe I can mix them? We'll see...

[guitardom]

hello, i run a td 12 kit. i dont even use the audio outputs.all midi, i trigger reason drum kits refill when tracking, and use reason, strike, and bfd for mixing. works well, and very flexible.