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The Easiest Way to Edit Drums in Logic Pro X | Stop Using Flex Time! (Sort of) - YouTube
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[Music]
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if
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you are a logic user and you've ever had
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to
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edit drums you might be wondering
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why does flex time suck so bad and this
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is a great question because logic just
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hasn't
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caught up to pro tools when it comes to
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drum
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editing and over the years i've tried
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almost
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every method out there from just
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straight up using
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flex time to emulating a pro tools
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workflow in logic to just manually
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editing the drums which i still do
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occasionally
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if bands request it but we all know that
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today most bands want tightly edited
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and perfect drums but it's kind of hard
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to do this
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in logic but luckily for you i have
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sort of a new way to edit drums that
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does involve using a little bit of flex
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time
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but it doesn't involve messing around
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with transient markers
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and all the painful processes that
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are involved in flex time and this
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process has
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also allowed me to cut my drum editing
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time
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in half so that i can move on to the fun
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stuff
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and now i'm no longer pulling my hair
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out
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trying to get flex time to work the way
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that i think it should
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now let's hop in the daw and i'll show
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you what i do
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when it comes time for drum editing
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in front of us we have some drums that
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were recorded about a week ago and i've
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kind of
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saved them so that i could make this
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video so
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first of all let's just go over the
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basics that most of you probably know
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so when we want to edit drums we want to
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make sure they're all in the same group
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here so
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all these tracks are in the drums group
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and
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if i open up the group settings we can
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see that
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editing and quantize locked is
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selected which needs to be selected for
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when you're doing any type of drum
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editing that means when we move one
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track we move the rest of them
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they all kind of follow along with the
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track that we're moving
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if we were just gonna use flex time to
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edit these drums we would
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of course turn on flex time
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for all of the drum tracks
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and select slicing that's the best
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method for editing drums
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and the thing here is this is where it
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gets a little bit
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time consuming what someone would
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normally do here
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is select the drums that we want to use
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for editing
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which in a lot of cases is the kick and
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snare so we would turn
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off the the q for all of the tracks that
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we don't want to edit by
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so let's just edit by the kick in so
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we'll take off the kick out
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and then we'll use the snare top so
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we'll leave the q on for that
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and then we'll turn the the q off for
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the rest of the tracks now this means
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that we are going to use the snare top
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and the kick
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in to edit so this would mean
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that now we should only have transient
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markers
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for the kick in the snare and those
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transient markers we could then move
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to wherever we want to put the drummer
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on beat
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but as we know that's not the case the
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logic algorithm picks up a lot of
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the other transients from the rest of
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the drum kit
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which kind of stinks so in order for us
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to ensure that we only have the
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transient markers we need
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we would need to then go through the
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kick in and snare top
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track to ensure that we're not picking
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up any other transients and the way
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that's usually done is you
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double click on one of the tracks and
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you bring up the file editor
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and then you can use this this minus
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button to
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get rid of some of the transients that
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aren't really snare hits
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and you can also use the eraser tool to
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get rid of some of these because
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as we know some of these aren't snare
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hits these are you know kick or
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or hi-hat whatever they may be
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but we would just want the snare hits
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and it's just a
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pain to scrub through this and remove
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all the false transients so
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instead of doing that we're going to
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just turn off
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flex time and what i'm going to do is
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i'm going to make a copy of this kick
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and snare track and we're going to
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throw in some triggers so that's one
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thing you do need
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some type of trigger program to
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edit this way so i'm actually going to
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use the kick
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out for my guide for our kick
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because that microphone for whatever
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reason works
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better with the slate trigger program so
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what i'm going to do is i'm going to
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turn off groups for
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the kick out and just copy this
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and then we're just going to make a new
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track
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and then i'm going to paste this down
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here
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and i'm gonna just turn groups back
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on for that kick out microphone because
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we still want it to be in the group
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and then i'm gonna do the same thing
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with
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the snare top so i will turn off groups
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copy it make a new track
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and just paste that in its own track
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so now i'll just name these kick guide
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and then snare guide
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so now i'm just going to add some
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samples to these tracks so i'm just
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going to throw on trigger 2
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and it really doesn't matter what sample
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you choose because these actually aren't
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going to be in the recording so i'll
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just
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pick any kick drum
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and throw it in there
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and make sure it's actually reacting
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there we go and then we'll do the same
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for the snare drum
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and again doesn't really matter what you
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use here
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all right so we should be good now
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and now what we're going to do is
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actually
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bounce these tracks as wave files so i'm
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going to take this
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kick guide and i'm going to say
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bounce regions in place
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and then now we can get rid of the kick
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guide track that we had and we'll do
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this
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the same for the snare guide so we'll
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just bounce this in place
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and again we can get rid of our snare
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guide
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now we're left with just two sample
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tracks here
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and these are going to be what we use to
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edit by
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so now we can actually add these two
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tracks that we've created to the drum
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group
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and then we can just use these for the
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queue so we just turned the queue on for
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the two tracks that were just
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created and if we go to flex time now
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like slicing
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[Music]
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now we actually only have transient
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markers
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where the kick and the snare should be
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and now it's kind of up to you how you
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want to do things you can
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easily go through and manually move
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these
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to where they should be if they're not
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on time
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or you can come up and quantize
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everything but if you do quantize you're
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probably going to have to go back
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and make sure everything's where it
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should be as we know when we
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quantize tracks and logic logic doesn't
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always
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put them in the right spot but just for
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this purpose i'm going to
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select 16th note and
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all of our drums are going to be
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quantized now and
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all of our actual drums will follow
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these sample tracks and now just to
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show you if we mute these sample tracks
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that
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we don't really want in our music
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they're just the guys
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and we listen back everything should be
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pretty close
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[Music]
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and for that small section of the song
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everything is perfectly on beat but
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you can bet that somewhere in this song
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logic did make a mistake that's why i
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say
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you probably will have to go through and
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double check to make sure
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no beats were moved incorrectly
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but this is a pretty fast
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process for drum editing and if we have
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to
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go in and take out transient markers and
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double check
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logic's work ahead of time it just takes
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way too long this
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just speeds up the process and we're
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just
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positive that we only have transient
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markers
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where the kick and the snare are
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actually hitting
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so there you go just throw in some
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samples ahead of time
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and use those as your guide tracks and
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it's going to make your job a lot easier
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that's about it if you have any
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questions on this
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process be sure to reach out or if you
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have another way you like to do things
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that works well let me know i'd sure
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