easily take control of your drums by adding eq and compression to each individual drum in the
kit i'm zane welcome to simple green tech and in this tracktion waveform tutorial i'm going to
show you how to easily use the plugin racks for multioutput instruments specifically drums and
the plugin i'm using for this example is mt power drumkit 2 which is a free plugin and if you need
it i've linked to it down in the description but right now let's jump into the tutorial all right
so i'm using waveform pro but this will work exactly the same in traction waveform free and
i'm starting with an empty project but you can do this in an existing project if you want to
so what we first want to do is create a track so we'll right click over here create a new track
and then we want to add our plugin which is mt power drumkit
and if you aren't sure about how to install third-party vst plugins in traction i'll
link to the video that i did showing you how to do that just in case you need it and just so you know
this will work in other similar plugins like easy drummer the ugritone drum kits which i really like
and also satala it will work in plus other plug-ins like this so don't think you can only
do this in mt power drum kit 2 now let's go into the mixer of our plugin just have a look in here
so we have kick snare hi-hats toms ride bell crash and china so we're going to need seven
tracks in total including the one that we already have so we need to add six additional tracks now
you can do that by right clicking here create a new track and keep doing that over and over again
or we can go down here to tracks and then create several tracks and then you want to go over to
six new tracks and bam we have six new tracks in there now what we want to do is rename each one
of these so i'm going to start with track one and we're going to call this kick and you can order
these in whatever order you want i'm just going to go in this order track 2 snare track 3 is toms
4 is high hats 5 is ride six is crash and seven is china so then what you wanna do is go over to
where the plugin is over here you wanna click on the mt power drumkit plugin and then right click
on it and then go down to wrap this plugin in a new rack plugin so click on that you can see now
it's turned purple and then what we need to do is hold down control on your computer keyboard
and then click and drag into the next track and keep doing this for all of the tracks
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i appreciate it so much now let's get back into waveform you can see this is our plugin rack
over here and it's added all of our tracks but you'll notice that the outputs are all coming from
up here so we're going to need to change that and to open up your plugin interface now if you want
to go back into the interface you just click on this picture in the center here and it brings
up the plugin interface and you'll notice if we play the drums it's going to all of these tracks
which is not what we want so what we first need to do is adjust the plugin
rack so down here you want to go to clear wiring click on that and then clear all output wiring
you can see it's got rid of that mess that was over here then we can go to connect wires and
connect outputs sequentially and you can see now it's all connected sequentially down over here
so let's open up our interface again and see what happens when we play the drums
well now everything's going through this one track so what we need to do is go into the
mixer and you can see down along here it says out one so everything's outputting to track one
right now which is our kick track so let's go and change these so snare is track two
hi hats are track four toms are track three ride is track five crashes track six
and china is track seven so now let's go back to our drum kit and see what happens when we play
you can see everything's playing on the right track now and you can program or add your midi
clips to any of these tracks i recommend keeping it to the top track just to keep
yourself organized so let's just bring in one of these grooves here and i'll drag it over into here
and we'll see what it looks like when we're playing the drum kit on all of these tracks
and we can adjust the levels now for each of these tracks you can add more plugins in there
but one thing you might want to do is create a drum bus and to do that you just want to
click on your first track here and then hold down control on your computer keyboard
and click on each of these tracks so they're all highlighted in red
and then if you just right click on any one of them go to create sub mix track containing
and now all of those are in our drum bus and we can rename this to drum bus
and now you can add a bus compressor and some eq to all of the drums and this way it sort of glues
everything together now sometimes you might want to have a separate bus for your cymbals
and for your drums so to separate these if you already have them in your drum buss you would just
click and bring it up out of your drum buss like that so now here's our drum buss with our
kick snare and toms and then we'll create another bus with all of our symbols in it
and we'll call this one hats and
symbols this bus is still getting all the information that we have from this one midi clip
and you can shrink these down by clicking over here or you can expand them so you can see
all of them and this really helps you to stay organized
if you have a lot of tracks in your projects now you can add an overall eq and a compressor to
all of your hi-hats and your symbols and you can add effects to your drum bus so your kick snare
and toms get sort of glued together if you want to see even more tracktion waveform tutorials for me
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thank you so much for watching for simple green tech i'm zane keep creating and we'll talk soon