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Finally, for the tweakers, there's the Advanced tab, where you define what note, channel and port Drumagog sends its MIDI to, and can switch between simple and advanced modes (the former places a lower burden on your CPU, while the latter is more accurate). This is a useful and convenient feature when you want to invisibly tidy up a drum part by replacing it with carefully chosen hits taken from the same session, although some people will prefer to use their usual sample editor to extract them. Integration with Fxpansion's BFD is one of the key selling points of Drumagog, and gives you direct access to a great sonic palette.The Samples tab is where you load, edit or create libraries in the GOG sample format used by Drumagog, and can record samples from the source (trigger) drum track. And finally you get an appealing, if not particularly useful, video of a stick/beater hitting a snare/kick to give visual feedback on timing (I'd rather use my ears!).
#PLATINUM SAMPLES JOE BARRESI EVIL DRUMS MANUAL#
Stealth Mode allows the source audio to pass through when a sample is not being triggered, crossfading back to the original audio afterwards, while Wavemachine Labs claim that the Auto-align function "guarantees a phase-aligned match every time", removing the need for further manual adjustment, even where samples have not been cleanly trimmed. Some GOG-format libraries support alternating left- and right-hand hits when triggering at a certain speed, and this too is set up from the Main page. These, respectively, allow Drumagog to respond to the power of the original drum hits, to avoid continuously repeating the same sample, and to determine which part of the drum piece has been hit, such as a snare rim instead of the head, and reflect this in its choice of sample. Other features accessible on the Main page include Dynamic, Random and Positional Multisamples. For setting the threshold, I find it much easier to use the Visual Mode, which switches the entire display to show the amplitude of input waveforms against the threshold level. As the name implies, Main is where you do most of the work, including setting the trigger threshold, sensitivity and resolution, shaping the trigger side-chain signal with a filter, selecting the sound to be triggered, adjusting the wet/dry mix of incoming audio and triggered sound, and matching the pitch of the sample to the source. The GUI comprises three tabs: Main, Samples, and Advanced. There are then several controls you can tweak to improve the triggering and the sound of the triggered sample to make it appear more or less natural.
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Whereas some drum-replacement software works off-line, Drumagog is a real-time plug-in: you insert it on the DAW mixer channel of the drum sound you want to replace, select the replacement sound, set the trigger threshold and sensitivity, and you'll start to hear your new samples triggered pretty much in time with the original. If done well, it's both inobtrusive and effective.
Many heavy metal styles use drum replacement as a matter of course, and it's quite a common practice on live recordings (including for very big-name bands that I can't name here!) to take beats from one part of a performance, or another night on the same tour, and use them to 'reinforce' the sound that's destined for, say, a tour DVD.
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It is Drumagog Platinum 4.1.0 that's reviewed here, while Drumagog Basic, Drumagog Pro and Drumagog BFD cost less and offer different, restricted feature sets (there's a comparison chart showing the differences at Drum replacement is a common technique in music production, whether it be to tweak near-perfect recordings, to replace drums outright, or to layer new sounds with the existing ones. It also now comes in VST, AU and RTAS formats, which replace the ageing Direct X version. Wavemachinelabs' Drumagog has matured considerably since Martin Walker's review in SOS February 2003 ( feb03/articles/wavemachinedrumagog.asp), not least because it can now communicate directly with Fxpansion's virtual drum software, BFD. The latest incarnation of Drumagog allows you to augment a real acoustic drum performance with the sonic palette of BFD.
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