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How to sample a drum app

wagdogwagdog
in General App Discussion

Hey all,

Probably a dumb question, but that’s never stopped me before :smiley:

I’d like to use the audio of the drum kits in pop drummer as one-shots in loopy pro. i.e. I want separate kick, snare, hats, etc…

What’s the most straightforward, possibly automated(?) way to extract individual drum samples from pop drummer, or any other drum app for that matter? I have koala, Cubasis, GB, and probably a few other apps I’ve forgotten.

Thanks for any pointers.

Comments

  • wimwim

    Koala running as an FX on the Pop Drummer channel can do it it easy as pie. Record a pattern that has all the hits you want, slice it up, export the pads.

    Loopy Pro can do it without even needing to set up one-shots. Record a loop with all the hits in it, add a Clip Slicer to the canvas, point it to the clip, Divide on transients. Now you can play back from the Clip Slicer grid.

    You can also add empty Loopy one-shot clips, flip Pop Drummer to Song Mode, arm a one-shot, send the right midi note to Pop Drummer, record to the one-shot, and then trim as needed (or use threshold recording to avoid trimming).

    There are lots of ways to skin this cat. Those are just a few quick pointers. If you see one that looks interesting, but need help with details, I can flesh it out.

  • espiegel123espiegel123

    @wagdog said:
    Hey all,

    Probably a dumb question, but that’s never stopped me before :smiley:

    I’d like to use the audio of the drum kits in pop drummer as one-shots in loopy pro. i.e. I want separate kick, snare, hats, etc…

    What’s the most straightforward, possibly automated(?) way to extract individual drum samples from pop drummer, or any other drum app for that matter? I have koala, Cubasis, GB, and probably a few other apps I’ve forgotten.

    Thanks for any pointers.

    You can send midi notes to pop drummer to play the individual hits and resample into your app of choice.

    Since you use Loopy Pro, you could resample into individual one-shots or into a single one-shot that can be targeted as as a transient sliced target.

  • wagdogwagdog

    Thanks @wim !!!! That makes total sense, I’ll try it. I’m not new to music, but I’m still new to this stuff. Really appreciate your help.

  • wagdogwagdog

    @espiegel123 said:

    @wagdog said:
    Hey all,

    Probably a dumb question, but that’s never stopped me before :smiley:

    I’d like to use the audio of the drum kits in pop drummer as one-shots in loopy pro. i.e. I want separate kick, snare, hats, etc…

    What’s the most straightforward, possibly automated(?) way to extract individual drum samples from pop drummer, or any other drum app for that matter? I have koala, Cubasis, GB, and probably a few other apps I’ve forgotten.

    Thanks for any pointers.

    You can send midi notes to pop drummer to play the individual hits and resample into your app of choice.

    Since you use Loopy Pro, you could resample into individual one-shots or into a single one-shot that can be targeted as as a transient sliced target.

    Thank you! Lots of options here!

  • wimwim
    edited January 8

    Unless you want to do something special with those one-shots, they really don't add much over just using Sound Module mode in Pop Drummer, and sending midi to the app.

    You can set up button widgets to send the needed notes to Pop Drummer if you just want little square things to trigger sounds on the screen. Then you not only don't need to go to the trouble of sampling, but you can change kits in Pop Drummer without needing to swap samples in your one-shots.

  • wagdogwagdog

    Thanks @wim .

    This is going into a larger template that already has a pop drummer loaded and run from loopy. Unfortunately pop drummer doesn’t let you play the individual drums with the “sound mode” while a pattern is playing. I don’t want to load up a second pop drummer in this template. My plan is to use a subset of the PD drums for occasional finger drumming drum rolls and cymbal hits. I’ll also have other one shots available that don’t exist in PD. I want to use the PD drums captures so they’ll match with the kit that’s currently playing.

  • wimwim

    👍🏼

  • egobeatsegobeats
    edited January 9

    I got a dope lil drum library that I've been throwing @ Every drum sampler that will allow it.

    https://www.icloud.com/iclouddrive/0c6uoBToEn_5lCrTuhkmUwwyw#104d

    They are very good. Making oneshot kits, gr8 in hammerhead, hand clapper, playbeat, bilboa, Vancouver, koala...

  • timfromthebordertimfromtheborder

    I would definitely go with Koala. If you have the Samurai IAP, the new Chopper mode means you don’t even have to slice a clip into separate pads, you can just play it with MIDI. But if you do slice it up, you also have great tools in Koala to adjust EQ, attack/decay, choke groups and so on.

  • wimwim
    edited January 9

    @egobeats - it sounds like he specifically wants one-hits that match the sounds from Pop Drummer while it's playing a pattern - presumably to play on top or during breaks. Though there's nothing to prevent using midi out from Pop Drummer to other sounds. 👍🏼

    (btw, thanks for the link to all those great sounds!)

  • wagdogwagdog

    All - thanks again for the help, I am on the right track.

    As much as I marvel at the amazingness of loopy pro and marvel at its greatness, I have to say that koala runs a close second for me as far as being stunningly good. All of that running on something about the size of an old National Geographic.

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