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No particular reason, just forgot.

Yes, drumgizmo is quite flexible with this and you can experiment with channel mappings.

This system should be perfectly fine. There is a disk streaming feature in Drumgizmo where you can limit the used RAM in the graphical interface before loading a kit. Also, some kits are provided with smaller versions. But I suspect this is not the problem. 256 buffer size should really be fine on this system. Could be a problem within jack itself (maybe configuration?)

@@onikudaki1000 Wow thank you for that. What value would you recommend that I limit the ram usage to?

@@Eric-dd8bk I would suggest 2048 (2GB). For a 16 gig machine this should be enough.

Thanks! Take a look at 15:54: the left list view contains the output channels of the plugin and they are from top to bottom. For the example in the video, this means: OHL -> Channel 1, OHR -> Channel 2, SnareBottom -> Channel 3, SnareTop -> Channel 4, TomL3 -> Channel 5 and TomR3 -> Channel 6. Maybe I should have added the channel numbers as an additional column in the list view. So, for this example, a correct routing would be: Channel1/2 mapped to a DAW track as stereo (both OH), Channel 3 and 4 as mono (individual snare microphones) and Channel 5/6 as stereo for the Tom. Did that with Ardour and Reaper. I did a detailed video on the drumgizmo setup within Ardour a few years ago on how to map the channels. See here: ruclips.net/video/7_LZt082MgI/видео.html

Thanks a lot! I have to admit I did not work with X11 directly. What you should keep in mind though is compatibility with Wayland, which is replacing X more and more. On the GTK side, there is gtksourceview, which already provides lots of text editor functionality including source code highlighting. This might help with the effort a bit. Not sure, might do a short video on gtksourceview as it is also used within AURIS.

Thanks a lot!

Thank you, that's good to read! And thats the intention of this series. You often read many blog posts that cover a single topic, but you get rarely a complete example using them all together. So if you could get something out of this series, then it meets its purpose and I am happy.

Thanks! Yeah, I definitely need to spend more time with code actions.

Do you know the version of DrumGizmo? Later versions show error messages on loading the kit in the GUI, older versions may only log to console. The first I would look at would be if there is a version conflict. There as a patch for the CrocellKit on the DrumGizmo website for newer versions, but it's hard to say without an error message about whats wrong.

@@onikudaki1000 It says something like "invalid argument" and then it almost crashes the PC every time. And it's 8 GB RAM, I7 2.5 GHz, 1 TB of disk space... It's by far the heaviest kit on the site, 10 GB aprox, perhaps that's the reason... I'll try installing older version 0.9.6 of DrumGizmo now.

@@DeepHipilossa yeah, this sounds like it is going out of RAM. Have you tried using it with streaming? Newer DrumGizmo versions provide a setting how much memory can be used and the most used sample are cached in this area, the rest is streamed from disk.

Yes, I do this quite often: to import the final MIDI into Ardour and continue from there. The randomization becomes now less important as DrumGizmo can actually do quite a lot on the timing as well as on the velocity side. I also agree, that having to use 2 tools is a bit cumbersome, but that's what we currently have.

Ok, I will dig that up. I am currently just out of time, so I will come back to you later.

Sorry for the delay, it's currently quite weird. Anyway, here are the drum maps I used: www.onikudaki.net/blog/archives/279 together with some Notes.

Its not yet finished :) Currently trying and recording vocals, maybe over Christmas I will have time. There is also a Intro to this song which is finished, but not official yet.

@@onikudaki1000 Ok! cheers to that. And if I would want to listen to something "similar" which band would you recommend? the riff style of the verses is mainly what I'm after : )

@@bluebones I thought a lot and there didn't come something into my mind immediately. That's a good question. The main riff was inspired by an old band, which we sometimes played with, but they don't exist anymore and I can't find any music from them online. I think I can only tell some of the influences, which brought me to that song and these are probably Machine Head (eg. ruclips.net/video/k-I7TuEzWYI/видео.html), Pantera (eg. ruclips.net/video/2ht3XGhlfYs/видео.html) or for more easy listening (as you said you are not a metalhead) Sevendust, especially the older albums like Cold Day Memory or Home and Animosity. Not sure if that helps...

@@onikudaki1000 Thank you for taking the time to answer, I will myself take now the time to dive into this bands, hope your song comes out soon! : )

This is just a personal preference from me. I like the navigation in Muse more and also the drum maps and the velocity bars. You can draw velocities quickly in Muse but not in Ardour.

@@onikudaki1000 Using the draw/edit tool in Ardour you can simply use your mouse wheel to modify the velocity of one or multiple selected MIDI notes ;)

@@onikudaki1000 As of today you can

Yes. Didn't know about crossover split at that time. On later patches I did exactly that.

@@onikudaki1000 awesome!! The reason I asked is cos I have a stomp and removing those 2 EQ blocks brings me closer to 6 blocks and I can try to implement this on my HX Stomp

Well, it was never the intention of the video to show that. The frame of the video is about creating the track, not how to set it up. This you can see in the videos of the series I did for Libre Music Production. Also there is some stuff going on in MuSE itself (look at the comments from windowsrefund), so the drum map for the Crocell kit is now part of MuSE (though probabla not for the AasiMonster).

Ok I will see the link that you mention sorry Thanks for your work.,

Thank you! It always depends on what you want. The bleed control now comes in very handy if you want to spare some time in the mixing process. That's indeed very good, but yes, it does take away a bit of realism, it makes the drum mix a bit less "dense". This is not necessarily bad, if you look at e.g. most Toontrack stuff or commercial drum libraries, they have single samples for all shells and some close mikes for some cymbals but also overheads and room microphones (and some artificial bleed if you want to). You can get away with overheads and room mikes alone and single shell samples without bleed for e.g. modern metal or metalcore or djent style because they benefit from very clean drum tracks (of course they also add more layers of samples even on real drums quite often). For more pop/rock/punk/alternative style the bleed just gives a more realistic touch to it. So, all in all you can get quite realistic drums with right velocitiy settings, and then do a bit of randomisation of velocity and timing. And overhead- and room-tracks, they are important too. With that you are perfectly fine for a lot of purposes. On the other side it is also good to train to get full bleeded tracks under control and clean them up by manually editing them and using plugins to do that. Often you find online video courses or tips and tricks where they come up with funny usage of a plugin you have never thought of because of the bleed and I always find that nice. On one of my next projects I will try to reduce the bleed between snare and hi hat, maybe clean the toms completely and also the ride track, which is full of bleed in the Crocell kit. I haven't done this yet, but I will experiment with that of course.

Hi Michael can you please tell us where you found the lexicon irs? Found some but they sounded distorted. (We're in aiff format and 48k)

@@tonypersic5585 I think I got them from here: www.propellerheads.com/blog/free-reverb-resources-where-to-find-impulse-responses (Lexicon PCM90). There are also a ton of other resources for impulses.

OK finally figured it out. An .idf file needs to be created. I put together a PR here: github.com/muse-sequencer/muse/pull/614

The drum map for Muse has to be created. But you can do that directly within Muse. Just open a drum drack in the drum editor, then you can edit the names of the drums as you like. Then close the drum editor, right click on the drum track and there is a menu item like "Save drum list to file" or similar. That creates the drummap files. As for the reason: yes, it largely is GM compatible, but it has features different from GM (e.g. the stopped crashes are not part of GM), so they have to map them to existing notes. I for my part want to see "Crash L stopped" and not something like "Conga 1". That's the reason I created the maps. HTH

OK. Got it. I've been talking to Tim about the idea of making MIDI Note values visible for this purpose. As you know, the CrocellKit (as well as all the other Drumgizmo kits I imagine) ship with .xml files that show the mappings. It would be really handy to see where exactly note 52 is inside the Piano Roll/Drum Editor as opposed to what's seen inside the Instrument Editor (E-Note & A-Note). Thanks for this video. Looking forward to complete my viewing of it as well as the followups. By the way, any chance you can recommend a good lv2 plugin for more electronic drums? Drumgizmo will obviously rock when it comes to handling the acoustic side of things but I'm also on the lookout to arm myself with something that will work better for darker aggrotech styles. My best guess at this point is to explore drmr as a means of tapping into Hyrogen drumkits (I have no intention of using Hydrogen itself for a variety of reasons).

Yes, I did it with a MIDI table I looked up somewhere. Would be nice to have the MIDI values also available. For electronic drums: at first I mostly used LMMS with it's samples, exported the WAV tracks and imported them into ardour (e.g. in soundcloud.com/michael-oswald-5/the-canyon-wo-vocals). For one project I used Hydrogen, but I settled on the unfa-method and now use mostly ZynAddSubFX and create the drums by hand or, for samples, use Schlagzeug from the LSP plugins.

Thank you for all the help and feedback. Much appreciated.

just found them through a sketchy 3rd party link.

Well, this would be great, but the creator did want them to be only on the one forum thread (which is not existent anymore). I have no idea who he is so that I could ask him to put them somewhere (or he allows me to do that).

Anychance you could email me them?

No problem. Just need an e-mail address

Michael Oswald Mitchelljaybarlow@gmail.com

No, I don't have a Helix Native, so I can't try. With the PODs (and Podfarm) they had some kind of dongle via USB (I remember I had to plug in the PODxt for Podfarm to work). If that's also the case for Helix Native, then it won't work as wine doesn't support USB. But I don' really know...

Ярослав Яніцький no, you can use other EQs as well. On kick I use it mostly for the “Pultec EQ trick“ (you can google this). It is a low shelf boost and a bell cut a bit higher to clean the mud up. Just use what you have and always listen until you achieve what you aim to.

Senks, Michael! Interesting trick.

Thank you! In principal yes. I am on business trip now, so not before end of next week.

Well, 2 reasons: first, as mentioned in the video, Nolly explained in the Nail the Mix session that they used a Friedman patch on the Axe FX for Periphery III and I was more concerned to try that tone. I have the raw tracks for Prayer Position from that session, so I did a bit of a comparison. Second, I personally find the 5150 simulation on the Helix not that good. I spent a lot of time tweaking patches with it and then switching to the Fatality or Archetype models. I have yet to find a 5150 patch that feels good to me while playing and also sounds good to me. I think the main reason is that I don't find a suitable cabinet IR for it. But I keep looking...

thanks! good to know i was considering the helix, but my sound is essentially 5150 or 6505 so it might not be a good idea

Yeah, most other amps are really nice. AFAIK the AX8 has at least 3 5150 models. But you can search for a guy on RUclips, Mitch Baker, he did a 1:1 comparison of the models with identical settings on the Helix and AX8. There are also the 5150 models in one of his videos. Also Scott Minchk (IIRC) has some videos on his Helix 5150 pack of presets. Might be worth to have a look at these vids.

pablo perez Here is a link to Scotts videos: ruclips.net/video/yGjhSUXTjk0/видео.html

Michael Oswald thanks a lot!

Hi Bree, yes it is. When I started recording stuff in the 90s I used Cakewalk Sonar and it was quite similar from the UI, so for me it feels more natural than e.g. Ardour (where you e.g. cannot draw velocities). I did some small contributions in the source code for MuSE which are now in the current 3.0.2 and which would have helped me in this video :) . Maybe I will do a small video about that later...

Actually, this is not the Helix plugin, it's the Helix editor running on a Windows Notebook (since it doesn't work on Wine because of the missing USB support), put onto my Linux machine via Remote Desktop to be able to record it in the screencast.

You can get them from here: www.onikudaki.net/blog/archives/186. I've also added a note that I use impulse responses in some of them, which I can't upload as they are commercial ones, but they are replacable with the internal cabinets or there are some free SVT810 IRs on the net.