Re: [Doggiebox] Feature request - mute drum tracks On 11/07/2006 23:36, Michael Carlyle wrote: I see that the long-standing feature request, formerly known as "the ability to export individual drums to separate tracks" has resurfaced and has been renamed the MUTE FEATURE. If you think about it... it's a more efficient approach to be able to SELECTIVELY EXPORT, rather than MUTE. In other words, it's easier to select the drums you want, rather than all of the ones you don't. Selecting for what you want to hea

Hi Carl That's excellent - you prog-monster :) Liked this and thought it worth some comments. The best and most professional job you've done to date I think. All the instruments are mixed really well and there's a lot of atmosphere and power in there. I think you've done well with the db drums - especially the snare bass combination - that sounds to me like a real drummer and fits the other elements perfectly. I know you'll be tweaking the db on this - so to my ears the bits that need work are: The super-fast hi-hat start before the 4 slower ones and snare start. Perhaps a kind of soft rising cymbal would work well here (Fleetwood Mac, Albatross style) (keeping the 4 slower beats). I don't know how easy that is with ns-kit, but I think it would more natural feel to the rising pace of the start. I'd be tempted to put a second strike of the crash cymbal (or other crash cymbal) on the second bass drum beat in the second bar - so it fits in with the bass/guitar. ( |x------|x-x----| or something like that) I like the idea of the ride at 7:18, but for some reason it sounds a bit distracting to me. Maybe its a bit high in the mix or you need to drop a few strikes where the 'real' drummer would be hitting the snare. Or maybe a different ride sound is needed? Just some suggestions. Looking forward to hearing v2 with the other tweaked drums you have planned anyway. All the best Sion ----------------------------------------- Sion Morris Liverpool www.cinnamondesign.co.uk/music/music.html -------------------------------------------

ps - I've been working on a new rock song in GB using exclusively Doggiebox for the drums. It's only a "first draft", with much of the drum part consisting of repeated basic sections except in a few places where I already had an idea about something different. My intention is to go back and bit by bit tweak things around from here. Luckily, this is really easy in Doggiebox -- it's rather harder to tweak my limited ability to sing :) Still, it's not a lot of work with Doggiebox to get a pretty decent and usable drum part for a demo: <http://www.carlaz.com/music/Words_to_the_Wind.mp3>