Question for the community:
How does everyone here create drum loops from multitrack drum recordings in C6? What’s your process for assembling the final drum performance? Love to hear how you do it, plus I have a question.
Here’s my process:
- Record a live drum kit performance to multiple audio tracks (kick track, snare track, OH track, etc) while monitoring Cubase’s Metronome click in headphones.
- Typically, I do five or six takes of different beats, fills, etc.
- Put the above tracks in a folder called DRUMS.
- Click the folder’s Group Edit button.
- Turn the lanes feature on for the overhead track (my choice for ease of editing).
- Enable Snap in the project window.
- Listen to the various takes, and cut the start and end points of the sections I want to use as loops (since Group Edit is on, the cuts I make on the OH track occur on all the various drum tracks simultaneously - e.g. snare, kick, etc.)
- Copy the newly cut drum phrases to a new lane to create a “final drum performance” lane.
- Move around, duplicate, etc. the various drum phrases on the final performance lane to create the final drums.
Step 8 above is where I run into a brick wall with C6. I can’t seem to copy my cut audio sections onto a new lane in order to build the final drum performance. Any ideas on how do this? I was expecting it to “just work” - and for the software to automatically create copies on a new lane in the other various drum tracks (kick, snare, etc) so everything stayed lined-up across the drum’s various multitracks.
Maybe this is the wrong way to do it with C6. If so, how do I do it?
Aj