Hello everyone
i was hoping that someone could share an easy and precise way to tune percussion-sounds like bongos etc
Isn't it strange that there is no simple build-in tuner that can be used for for drums - like the one that comes with an audio
track? If i have a nice bongo-sound and want to know which note it is and maybe fine-tune it a little bit - what is the correct way to do that?
I currenty try doing it via EQ-Analyser, but it is kind of comlicated and not very precise...
Appreciate any help
Best regards
M.
Question about tuning drums
Drag the sample into grain, it is perfect for pitch detection.
I have used the melodyne like pitch editor. Seemed to work for me.
- FlowerSoldier
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What's up OP?
I like your name.
I like your name.
I usually use polar or uhbik-g to tune drums, then use ts-1 to adjust the timing (if needed)
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Not quite. For Kong the pitch knob goes from -1200 to +1200, meaning - + one octave.
Each equal tempered semitone is 100 cents apart.
In Grain the notes are separated from +50 to -50, so if in Grain a sample is analyzed as D#3 +40, you need to go down 40 cents to get a perfect D#3.
So you need to lower the pitch with 40 cents, which is simply -40 for Kong. It's increments are exacts cents from -1200 to +1200, an entire octave down and up.
For Redrum there are less increments, so it is less precise : the pitch knob goes from -64 to +64, which corresponds to the same -1200 +1200 cents. An entire octave down and up.
So for Redrum you need to calculate: 64 = 1200 (cents) -> 1200 / 64 = 18.75 -> each increment in Redrum is 18.75 cents. (18.75 * 64 = 1200).
So in Redrum to go 40 cents lower you would need to go down 2 increments or '- 2'...which would be the closest possible (18.75*2 = 37.50 cents).
I'm going from the presumption of equal tempered semitones, which I guess is correct (?)
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Well for Kong I was talking about the Nano player though. The pitch knob 'offset' of Kong itself goes from -120 to +120 which would indeed be -4 to go down 40 cents
- platzangst
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You could always route your drum output to an audio track input.
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