Drum Replacement - Concepts

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Manual Drum Replacement with Audio Clips

The first step is to become proficient manually editing audio files and audio clips to replace or augment drums tracks. Most important are:

  1. Kick
  2. Snare
  3. Toms

We rarely trigger cymbals or hi hats.

Manual Drum Replacement with MIDI notes

You should know how to:

  1. Manually create a MIDI note based on an audio clip drum hit.
  2. Route that MIDI note to a virtual instrument to create a new drum sound.

Drum Replacement Plugins

Current

  1. Slate Trigger - Current industry standard.
  2. Addictive Trigger - New kid on the block. A definite contender.

Legacy

  1. Sound Replacer - One of the originals. Now obsolete.
  2. Drumogog - One of the originals. Now obsolete.
  3. TL Drum Rehab - Was cool in it's day. Now obsolete.

MIDI Based Drum Replacement

  1. Masey DRT - Very impressive. The FREE version is great for students.

Drum Replacement Libraries

Drum Virtual Instruments

These can be performed in real time from a MIDI controller. Or, they can be triggered from audio clips converted into MIDI notes.

  1. Superior Drummer
  2. Addictive Drummer
  3. BFD3
  4. Slate Drummer