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Subject:getting started Posted by: stevegardner Date:6/1/2004 10:17:01 PM This is maybe the most elementary question you have seen. I am not finding it in my manual. My plan is to supply all of my drum parts with the newest Roland V DRum kit...problem is.. How do I get the recording to activate when I strike the Roland pad? I keep starting the record mode then walking across the room to play, then attempting to edit the dead air out... I am REAL green at this and have spent quite a while trying to figure this out to no avail... Thanks
Subject:RE: getting started Reply by: JohnnyRoy Date:6/2/2004 4:51:52 AM You’re doing it right. There is no way to avoid the dead air. What you should do is record a click track and place that on the timeline first if you’re trying to record drum beats/patterns. Unfortunately, ACID doesn’t have a metronome so you’ll need something to keep you drum playing in time. I just recorded the metronome from Vegas as a wave file and I use that. Then press record and walk across the room and start playing before count of 4. (of course moving the computer and drums closer together just for the time you are recording all these is another option) Then you have a consistent 4 beat measure of dead air to cut off of each track. I record my keyboard parts the same way. What I do is press record and then wait a measure to sync my playing with the music. Then I record my playing for a few measures to get a couple of performances. Once I think I’ve captured enough good ones, I go back and listen to the track and highlight the measure I like best and choose Select in Chopper. I listen to it looped in the chopper to make sure it loops smoothly and then I select Chop to New Track... and I save the final loop. I have some of this outlined in the ACID Tips section of my web site. ~jr Message last edited on5/7/2005 8:33:36 PM byJohnnyRoy.

You’re doing it right. There is no way to avoid the dead air. What you should do is record a click track and place that on the timeline first if you’re trying to record drum beats/patterns. Unfortunately, ACID doesn’t have a metronome so you’ll need something to keep you drum playing in time. I just recorded the metronome from Vegas as a wave file and I use that. Then press record and walk across the room and start playing before count of 4. (of course moving the computer and drums closer together just for the time you are recording all these is another option) Then you have a consistent 4 beat measure of dead air to cut off of each track.

I record my keyboard parts the same way. What I do is press record and then wait a measure to sync my playing with the music. Then I record my playing for a few measures to get a couple of performances. Once I think I’ve captured enough good ones, I go back and listen to the track and highlight the measure I like best and choose Select in Chopper. I listen to it looped in the chopper to make sure it loops smoothly and then I select Chop to New Track... and I save the final loop.

I have some of this outlined in the ACID Tips section of my web site.

~jr