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Tuning Drum Samples in your DAW
« on: January 10, 2016, 11:38:45 pm »
What do you all use to tune your drums? I use Melodyne... I've been wondering if this is not a good idea for resampling purposes, but I do think it works fine in most cases to my knowledge. However, it often detects the sample to have a different pitch when you run it through Melodyne several times....

I usually only tune my Kicks, Snares, and Crashes. Do you guys tune hats and other Percussion sounds? Generally I wont unless it's a tom or something. Do you have any processes that you would suggest in Ableton or any other DAW? I use the pitch adjustment on samples as well if needed.




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Re: Tuning Drum Samples in your DAW
« Reply #1 on: January 11, 2016, 01:18:25 am »
I actually just use the piano roll on FL, although since it shortens/lengthens the sample I'll mess around with the ADSR and a transient shaper until the tail and attack are where i want them again. This is probably a really inefficient way of doing it but I don't know a better way... ;;
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Re: Tuning Drum Samples in your DAW
« Reply #2 on: January 11, 2016, 01:54:08 am »
I use Edison, because it doesn't leave a trace that could interfere with your workflow.

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Re: Tuning Drum Samples in your DAW
« Reply #3 on: January 11, 2016, 04:56:28 am »
Abletons tuner is usually pretty on point, sometimes you have to change the pitch of the sample if you want it to register though.

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Re: Tuning Drum Samples in your DAW
« Reply #4 on: January 11, 2016, 01:58:24 pm »
fl's newtone. it's kinda fucked up with atonal sounds, but it's obviously fast to work with (like any fl stuff)
basically just to see it on newtone, then manual pitching on my individual sounds (i dont really like short sounds to be pitched inside newtone. it's good for singing but nah)

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Re: Tuning Drum Samples in your DAW
« Reply #5 on: January 11, 2016, 06:03:35 pm »
Abletons tuner is usually pretty on point, sometimes you have to change the pitch of the sample if you want it to register though.
You're talking about the tuner that comes up for all individual samples right?

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Re: Tuning Drum Samples in your DAW
« Reply #6 on: January 11, 2016, 06:09:07 pm »
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Re: Tuning Drum Samples in your DAW
« Reply #7 on: January 11, 2016, 08:37:47 pm »
In Ableton, warp your sample then use the pitch knob in the sample editing window. Make sure you're using the complex or complex pro algorithms (complex auto-adjusts the formant, and is nice for smaller pitch shifts. complex pro lets your change the formant and envelope manually, which give greater control over the sound at the cost of time).
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Re: Tuning Drum Samples in your DAW
« Reply #8 on: January 12, 2016, 01:09:06 am »
An iffy way to do it is do a heavy autotune on a drum and set it to the one key, then record that and use it. Very iffy because it won't always spot or properly fix the pitch, and sometimes it will create some weird sound added to it, So it's more of a quick fix if you're lazy.

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Re: Tuning Drum Samples in your DAW
« Reply #9 on: January 12, 2016, 04:28:56 am »
Ableton has transposition functions built in. The new tuner that came with 9.2 combined with transposition tells me exactly what key a sound will be in :)
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Re: Tuning Drum Samples in your DAW
« Reply #10 on: January 12, 2016, 10:37:44 pm »
Has anyone discovered a very good way of doing this in Cubase? This is one of my major gripes with the software...for me to edit sample tuning I have to currently load it in to a 3rd party sampler (like Kontakt) or use a 3rd party plugin (like Waves SoundShifter) to even find the tuning that sounds right. Then I can choose to either pitch shift the sample (which often destroys any transients) or leave it with the 3rd party stuff on.

FL and Ableton seem to kill Cubase for this.

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Re: Tuning Drum Samples in your DAW
« Reply #11 on: January 13, 2016, 12:17:52 am »
I use Pro Q2 and find where the frequencies are boosting and then pitch down or up to get in key.