Replacing a Kick Drum Sound Using TL Drum Rehab
1 Insert TL Drum Rehab on a mono audio track of a kick drum recording.
2 Make a short selection to set TL Drum Rehab’s parameters. For example, make a two bar selection.
3 In TL Drum Rehab’s Trigger panel (see TL Drum Trigger Panel Display and Controls), select Kick from the Detector Mode pop-up menu (see TL Drum Rehab Detector Mode Menu).
4 Enable Listen mode by clicking the Listen button. The Listen button, located in the bottom left corner of the plug-in window, lights when Listen mode is enabled.
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5 Start playback in Pro Tools. As Pro Tools plays back, TL Drum Rehab “listens” to the track, and analyzes the audio for attack transients and marks those sample locations with triggers. These triggers play back the samples loaded into TL Drum Rehab to replace or enhance the drum sounds on the audio track.
6 In this example, there is some bleed from the snare on the kick track and TL Drum Rehab detected a trigger on one of the snare hits. Adjust the Minimum Threshold control so that only the kick drum hits are detected (see TL Drum Rehab Minimum and Maximum Threshold Controls).
7 After adjusting the Minimum Threshold, play back the selection to re-detect triggers.
8 In TL Drum Rehab’s Library browser (see TL Drum Rehab Library Browser), locate the drum sample or DRP file you want to load. You can audition samples and DRP files by enabling the Auto-Audition option and selecting the sample or DRP file you want audition in the browser.
DRP files are a collection of samples loaded into TL Drum Rehab’s Zones and Clips that work together to create a realistic and dynamic drum sound. For more information on DRP files, see TL Drum Rehab DRP Name Display.
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To load a DRP file into TL Drum Rehab, double click the desired DRP file in the Library browser.
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To load a sample into TL Drum Rehab, double click the desired sample (WAV, AIF, or SD2) in the Library browser. The sample is loaded into the currently selected Zone (see TL Drum Rehab Velocity Map and Velocity Zones).
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10 In the Trigger panel, decrease the Input slider to lower the volume of the original kick sound, and increase the Samples slider to increase the volume of the replacement kick sample. This way you can effectively augment or replace the original drum sound with the sampled drum sound. You can also adjust the Dynamics control to have the amplitude of the original drum sound affect the playback amplitude (velocity) of the sampled drum sound. (For more information, see Playback Controls.)
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11 In the Pro Tools Transport window, press Return to Zero, and press Play to begin playback from the beginning of the track. TL Drum Rehab plays back the selected drum sample at every detected trigger in the original track, all in real time.
During playback, you can further adjust TL Drum Rehab’s playback controls as desired to get just the right blend between the original drum sound and the replacement drum sound.
12 Once you are satisfied with the result, do one of the following:
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Bus and record the output of TL Drum Rehab to a new audio track.
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Use Bounce to Disk to render the replacement track and import it back into the session. For more information on Bounce To Disk, see the Pro Tools Reference Guide.
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Leave the plug-in inserted and continue to use it during playback.
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