Drum Notation App/Software Question

Nuendo
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Hello everyone. Happy New Year to you all.

My question is this:

I am a professional drummer. I would like to be able to set a click say at 120 bpm. Then record some rudimental. solo ideas on my drums (in Nuendo 14).
Is there anything that can translate what I am playing into drum notation?

Let’s say I am playing a simple rock groove for 4 bars, then play some fills on the drums for 4 bars, back and forth.

Would there be anything out there that could do this.
Note: I remember a film called “Drumline”. In that film, the “star” played a crazy snare drum solo. Everything he played on the snare drum was amazingly transcribed. I don’t know if this is still a “Hollywood” gimmick, or if technology has caught up and it does exist.

Sorry for the winded post. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.
Kind regards.

Mark Dalzell
Las Vegas, NV
USA

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Happy New Year.

Yes

You would have to either:

  1. Use a full electronic kit
  2. put 2-3 zone sensors on your acoustic drums and cymbals (cymbals would be tricky and would possibly need hybrid cymbals)
  3. Close mic your whole kit and use drum replacement software to translate to midi. Again cymbals would be tricky.

Then use midi drum mapping to map each sensors midi output to the right midi note, which is mapped to the right notation symbol. Not too difficult in Cubendo or Groove Agent for example.

There may be AI that could do it from separated drum mix but I havent heard of it.