kyuss wrote:
Ok ,you described it even more to the core but still saying the same thing - drummer -> pads -> triggers -> module -> sound that is recorded into audio tracks.
Exactly. But the actual drums aren't recorded into the audio track, the trigger signal isn't recorded into the audio track, the drum sounds from the sound module (controlled by the triggers) are.
The sound module is an electronic sound source that produces drum sounds. In essence, a drum machine without a sequencer.
So when you are hearing triggered drums, you are hearing a drum machine controlled (triggered) by the drummer. Not effected drums.
kyuss wrote:
In studio recording software be it Pro Tools, Cubase or what ever
you can record midi input into audio track.
No, you can not.
MIDI signal doesn't carry information about the actual sound, only information about what you play. MIDI is used to control electronic sound sources (such as synths, samplers and drum machines), not to produce sound by itself. MIDI tells the sound source what to play, and the sound source plays it.
There is no such thing as a MIDI audio signal, MIDI sound or whatever. This is a common misconception, though.
A good explanation of MIDI from cakewalk.com: MIDI is a set of commands or instructions that different hardware devices and software programs use to communicate to each other. These MIDI commands are pretty much useless by themselves. They need to work with other devices to get the end result you're looking for. When you press a key on a keyboard, that command is sent to the internal synthesizer patch you selected, and /or to the port on the back of the keyboard that says "MIDI Out". That command by itself makes no sound. Along with other information it's just the instruction that says, "play this note".
There is no sound contained in the MIDI information itself, so you will always need some kind of device to play the MIDI commands back, so you can hear them. Some examples of these MIDI devices used to playback the MIDI commands would be a keyboard's synthesizer, a sound card with a built in synthesizer, a stand alone MIDI module, and even a drum machine. Basically, if it has a MIDI input port, it can probably generate some kind of sound. But remember, every device you playback on may have different sounds, so your file may not always sound exactly the same when you play it on different devices. To put it simply, what you play is recorded, but what you hear is not.kyuss wrote:
If you want to use drum machine there is option to quantize the drum patterns before recording. If it is recorded you wont quantize anything.
This is correct. Quantizing an audio track is difficult.
If a drummer triggers a sound module and the sound module is recorded into an audio track, post-editing is not a sensible option.
This would also be the case if you were to record the sound of the actual drums with a microphone.
In most instances where triggers are used, however, the MIDI signal from the triggers itself is also recorded into a MIDI track, so if you want to edit the timing of the drums and/or change drum sounds later it can be done easily, by just running the MIDI drum track from the computer into a drum sound module and recording an audio drum track from that.
