drum machine

[rickjr]

is it possible to humanize a midi track that was recorded with a boss dr770 drum machine? i record with sonar 4. the drum software i use now is bfd. so i an wondering if i might have to re record the midi drum track with bfd. thank you for any help , rick

[mazz]

Is your original track still MIDI or is it audio now? That would make a difference in how you would go about humanizing the part.I don't know Sonar (but there are many on this forum who do) but most modern DAWs allow you to chop the audio up at some beat division (for example 16th notes) and from there you can apply any humanizing processes you would like to. Some DAWs (I use Digital Performer and it does it) will analyze the audio and put markers at transients (sharp attacks) and then allow you to move these around as you wish. If you track is audio, some variation on this process is what you'd have to do.If your track is still MIDI and you still have the drum machine, then you could put it in MIDI slave mode, record the MIDI from the drum machine in to a MIDI track in Sonar and then reassign the track to bfd and humanize away.You might be better off just trying to re-create the track in bfd. That's totally up to you.Hope this makes sense,Mazz

[edteja]

I have SONAR 6, and it lets you just about anything you want with a drum clip. You can make it into an acid loop or just quantize it to sound more human. Not sure how much of that stuff is in SONAR 4 though.