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What’s yer drum perfect pro workflow like?
I really love drum perfect pro and I’ve made some of my best beats with it but I haven’t settled on a work flow with it yet. Interested to know how other people are using it and integrating it with their music.
I’ve mostly been writing my beats in its sequencer then bouncing them down and then importing to Auria pro or cubasis but it can be annoying when I want to make a small change later in the project and then have to change it and rebounce. Also it sounds great as an instrument on some of the midi drums I’ve previously programmed for other drum apps in cubasis or Auria, especially thanks to the multi sample hits but then also I’m not using all the dpp features but at least I can make quick on the fly changes to the midi track in the daw..
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Take note of the small change you want to do, move on, write down next note and so on, once you’re done with the whole tune have a dpp-only session making those notes real. Save project. Bounce. If necessary repeat the process.
I wouldn’t suggest to fix small changes on the fly
I actually only make room for DPP in my Auria channels (because I prefer having my drums to the far left of the mixing table) but don't actually connect it (via IAA or anything) whilst sketching out the song, only sync it with Auria directly, but having DPP running in parallel. Only when I start getting to a point where I think the involved instruments that can/will/should affect the drums are sort of done I stop tweaking the drum sequences in DPP, and by that time it is good to get them in to Auria (or whatever DAW).
The benefit with using the DPP sequencer is that, once you figure it out, it has so much more control over the drums than any other iOS sequencer I know. If I were to create drum sequences in Auria (or whatever DAW) and just use DPP as a sound source I would miss out on what truly makes DPP unique: the sequencer. For me, having created my own kits in DPP, I could almost just as well just load those samples natively if I were using BM3, ModStep etc, if I really wanted to work in a not-DPP-sequencer.
Having said all of that, I often sketch drums in other apps first, before opening up DPP.
I also think that working with dpp in parallel is the best way. There are a hundred small things that can be done in dpp to achieve the perfect beat. I use Quneo to record in real time, then I'm perfecting in grid, adding links to increase the dynamics of the beat. The kits can also be easily customized.
Thanks for your input!
@hellquist how are you getting it to sync with auria are you sending it a midi command to start when auria does? Also what if you are working on just a section mid song say the bass track for example will it play at the right point on the corresponding timelines in sync?
I notice that I somewhat lie in my previous reply: I do connect the stereo output from DPP in Auria, even when sketching. The reason for that is that it holds the sync commands too. Don’t know if that is still the case, but it used to be, and it is part of my setup workflow now in any case, though I have it on mute in Auria whilst sketching, so it is ONLY connected for the sync.
That is a general DPP tip by the way (unless Marinus changed the way DPP syncs without me noticing), but if you route drums one by one to a channel in your DAW, either for capturing it or for whatever reason, unless you also have a channel strip with the stereo out from DPP you will never get the timelines to sync. I lost 3 very long nights of my life working that out. I should probably just have read the manual eh?
Nice one @hellquist
I think this might be what I’ve been missing. I’ve spent a few sessions trying to work this out as well...
So if I assign the dpp stereo out to a channel in my daw then it should sync the timelines so I can start midway through the song, loop a section or whatever in my daw and dpp will play along nice. Gonna give this a try tonight :-)
I like adding the individual DPP channels to AUM and then messing with effects. Tonestack on the kick often roughs it up a bit and gives it more of a hip hop sound.
Im struggling to work out how to sync dpp with cubasis so that the clocks are synced.
@Marinus could I ask your advice again please mate. I want to use the dpp sequencer in conjunction with a cubasis project and have it set up so that when I press play in cubasis it plays dpp. Is this possible to run it like this? Ideally so that if i start my cubasis track half way through the project it will start dpp in the corresponding place as well?