welcome to the recording a song with a budget audio interface series this is the third part in
the series and today i'm going to be adding drums using a free drum plugin i'm zane welcome to
simple green tech and if you're new to this series what i'm doing is i'm going through the process of
recording a song then releasing it and i'm using a budget audio interface a cheap microphone free
vst plugins tracktion waveform and i'm doing it all on a fairly modest older laptop you can probably
hear it in behind me it's pretty loud and the idea is to see if we can create a song that has
decent audio quality the free drum plugin that i'm using today is mt power drumkit
i've linked to it down in the description just in case you want to check it out for yourself
but right now let's jump into tracktion waveform and get started alright so i have mt power drumkit 2
loaded up into my project and what i'm going to do before i start is i'm going to set it up for
multi output and i have a whole video showing how to do that so i'm not going to go into
all the full details in here i'll link to that video down in the description in case
you want to check it out but i will go through the process here so i need to create six more tracks
then i'm just going to rename all of these tracks and the first one is going to be kick then snare
toms hi-hats ride crash and china all right now that i have those named i'm going to wrap this
plugin in a new rack then i'm going to copy it by holding control and then clicking and dragging
and i'm going to do that into each of these tracks that i just made then go over here to clear wiring
and i want to clear all output wiring then connect wires i want to connect output sequentially
now everything's connected so when we open up our plugin and when i play the snare
still plays on track one so now we need to go into the mixer and we have to change the snare to
output two high hats were output four toms were output three the ride was five
crashes were six and the china was seven now you'll notice when i play the snare
it's playing on the snare track play the china here it's playing on the china track
and this is going to give us a little more control of our sound when we get to the mixing stage
as we'll be able to add compression and eq to individual drums in our drum kit so what i think
i'm going to do for this song to make things a little quicker is i'm going to go into the grooves
and i'll try to find something that i like
and because our song starts with the chorus i'm going to start with an open hi-hat sound
so i'm just going to go in here and i'll start to click on these and listen to them
all right i think i like that one right there so i'm going to click and drag it into our timeline
here then let go i want to ignore this or else it will change the bpm to whatever's in here so
we're going to ignore that sorry to interrupt but i just want to ask if you're enjoying this
video so far and getting some value out of it can you please give it a thumbs up it really helps my
channel out and i appreciate it so much now let's get back into waveform and let's have a look so
here is our midi information for our drum track and i'm just going to duplicate this
and i'll duplicate it once more but now i want to
shorten this and leave that space at the end because i'm going to go back in here
and i'm going to choose one of these fills just to change things up a little
bit
all right i think i like that one right there so i'll click and drag it in here
again ignore then i want to bring this to the end right there and now i can fill in
the intro part because i want the intro part to be the same as this end part here so i'll just
copy them by holding down control and clicking and dragging and now let's just hear how it sounds
together
yeah i think i want another fill in here and i'm going to put it in right there
so we'll go back in here listen to the fills again all right i like that one right there
so i'll bring that in
now let's just listen how this part sounds
all right i don't mind that remember this was a scratch base so it's probably offbeat a little
bit as i'm going to be re-recording the base in later i just recorded this in so we could create
the foundation for our song and now we'll get the drum beat in there and once we have that in place
i'll be able to re-record that bass line and then we'll record our guitars in
and get the rest of the song put together which should come together fairly quickly now
and now we're going to work on the verse part here and for the first part
let's go back in i want a closed hi-hat so we'll listen to some of these
all right that one's pretty much what i want just something basic
and i'll do that
then again i'm going to shorten this and i will add another fill in there
all right i like that one
put that right there and then i'm just going to copy this partial one again i'm
going to reduce it in half and i'm going to grab another fill for at the end here
and we'll put that in there so let's listen to how it sounds
from about this part on as it's the same over and over here
okay so i don't mind that at all now we're getting into this pre-chorus part here which i'm going to
want another open hi-hat for that maybe we'll do a half open hi-hat let's listen to how that
sounds
all right i don't mind that one let's bring that in
let's hear how it sounds
and how different is that from this part
all right you can hear that half open hi-hat starts to bring up the energy a
little bit as we get back into the chorus which is exactly what i want so i'm going
to copy this and then i'm going to take one of those away we'll go back and get a fill
all right i think that one kind of fits the song so far so i'm going to add that one in there
and we'll just drag it over here and then for this
i'll just copy this reduce the size and i'm going to copy that again so we have them
same in there and now we're back to the course so we can just copy our chorus from before and
what i do here is i click on the first clip hold down shift on my computer keyboard and then click
on the last clip that i want everything in between and you can see everything in between is selected
now i hold down control and click and drag everything over to the chorus
and we're back at the verse again and i'm going to do the same thing
all right so now i've come to one part that's slightly different it's the bridge part so we'll
just go back in find something that's kind of suitable for that and i'm going to use
another open hi-hat but maybe i'll listen to what this ride one sounds like first
actually i don't mind that i think i'm going to use that right there
so i'll just drag that up there
copy and then i'm going to shorten this and we'll get a fill for in there
don't mind that one
bring that up here
all right and i'm just going to copy this
and that's perfect for that part and then we just get into the chorus over and over as
the ending's going to do chorus go into the second chorus and then start fading out and that's how
the song's going to end so i don't mind just copying this chorus over and over and over again
just going to be a simple song i don't want to get too crazy with this one maybe i'll do
another one of these series where i get a little more crazy with it but i just wanted this song
to be simple and fun all right so let's just listen to how this a little bit of it sounds here
we'll start with the ending of the chorus going into the verse
all right so it's actually not sounding too bad and that bridge part sounds pretty good too
remember the levels aren't set yet nothing's really set in
stone and that's not going to be the final baseline i still gotta record
that into it so the song's starting to come together and once we have this foundation laid
down the rest of the song starts going together really quickly and i'm looking forward to getting
more in depth with this song as it's starting to actually take form now if you want to continue
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thank you so much for watching for simple green tech i'm zane keep creating and we'll talk soon