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Swiggles' Recording Guide: PART 5- Writing MIDI Drums and Tracking

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Channel: Ro Panuganti · 2015 · Music

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Part 5 is probably the weirdest one of all, in that I can't name it properly. We'll begin writing MIDI Drums, something I pride myself on as being fairly good at when I'm not in a rush! I think this one actually will be most useful to more experienced music-makers that are trying to get a much more realistic and polished sound. After 13 minutes of staring at me, the tutorial goes over SO many things. Setting up Virtual Instruments, how I went about taking my ideas and putting them into the DAW, creating more MIDI routing with Kontakt, placing my solo in the song, and some shortcuts and tips. I apologize that these videos are getting longer and scary, but I promise you that if you follow these tutorials (especially you awesome Level Up Challenge entrants) you will be able to do what I do, if not better. Next week we mix our song using EQ, Compression, and other stuff.

Reaper Tutorial: http://youtu.be/pw969vFZaLg
Drum Tutorial: http://youtu.be/wA8ZluT6wOQ

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All music in the tutorial videos are my own covers/collaborations, some on Youtube and some Work-In-Progress!

Example of my Equipment/Software:
Interface: Line 6 Studio GX
Guitar: Ibanez RG7420
Acoustic: Yamaha APX500II
Bass: Ibanez SR405QM
Tone Software: Guitar Rig 5 
Drums: Superior Drummer 2.0
Virtual Instruments include 8Dio, Philharmonik, Spitfire, Native Instruments Kontakt, Reaktor, and more.
DAW: Cockos' Reaper
Mixing and Mastering: Izotope Ozone 5, FabFilter Plugins
This video is purely for educational/entertainment purposes, I do not claim any content I have not created myself.

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