On 12/04/2005 11:05, Tor Lillegraven wrote:
I also tend to use DB for quickie demos, but I have also gone all the way to do full-fledged productions with it. And I`m all for being able to export seperate drum parts -- it would really make a huge difference for me.
I haven't gone the separate drum tracks route (yet), and I kinda dig the "mic the virtual kit" approach, but I definitely see the utility of being able to turn given drums on or off for playback. I could easily see some check boxes next to drum sounds (or groups of drum sounds) in the kit window when editing so you could "mute" given things on playback.
Ultimately, I think it would be cool to see DB have the ability to output multichannel sound so you could run, say, multi-channel Firewire audio out of your Mac, through your multi-channel audio interface, whence you split out different regular audio cables to run to the mixer/board/whatever just as if they were coming from individual drum mics. But that's probably more complicated to sort out than simply muting given drums on or off for playback!
Cheers, Carl
ps - I use a woodblock sound to provide a click track to help me play in time on recordings during sections without drums, and I then go back to overdub a version of the dbsong from which I've erased the woodblock clicks -- but that's as much as I've done with turning drums on or off the hard way!
pps - Oh, I did finally get around to slaving DB to my recording deck (instead of vice versa) using MIDI/MMC, and it works *great*. I can swap drum tracks in and out from under other instruments now without any trouble syncing things up. Fab :)