Chords for A "Proper" Explanation of Drum Triggers

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_ Hey guys, so today we're gonna talk about drum triggering.
How does it work?
What can you use it for?
All that shizzle!
First I will go over what most people already know you can do with triggers
And then I'm going to show you some other cool stuff you can do
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_ _ [N] _ _ _ _ So what you may or may not know is that a drum trigger is an electronic sensor that you can attach to any
Acoustic drum and it more or less makes it an electronic drum meaning you can plug it into an electronic drum module like this one
This is the Roland TD-10 and you can pretty much make your drum sound like whatever you want and today for my demonstration
I'm just going to be plugging my triggers into the back of my interface and using tune track samples
_ _ My triggers for this video
I am using the Roland RT-10S dual triggers and dual means you can trigger both the head and the rim of the drum
Which is pretty damn cool
And I've got these on some old D drum toms with pearl muffle heads and these pearl muffle heads
they're pretty much made out of the same material as the the Roland V drum heads and
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I've got the axis e kit triggers, which are my personal favorite and
_ Just before we get started here.
I need to clear something up.
There's a lot of people out there who think that triggers are cheating
_ No, no, no, no, I still don't understand how people could ever think that triggers are cheating
It's not like you can program it to play blazing fast double bass for you by just hitting the trigger once like you have to
Hit every single note yourself.
See
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All right now that everything's working properly.
Let's get to the fucking demonstration already
Shall we you're gonna see the same performance three times and each with different trigger sounds _ _ _ _ _
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So that's what most people know you can use triggers for now
I'm gonna show you a cool little trick you can do if you're good with editing
Say you want to have a huge kit with like four rack toms and a whole bunch of different symbols
But you only have a small setup like this one here No problemo
You can splice up your track after you record to a whole bunch of different tracks and then you can change the sound afterwards
Check this out _
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_ Triggers can also come in handy when your bass player forgets to show up to a gig
you can send your signal to two different tracks and
_ _ Then on the other track you just program a MIDI sequence that will play along with each trigger hit [G] and there's actually a couple of drum
Modules out there that have this kind of feature on it as well if you don't feel like doing it on the computer
So now let's hear a few examples of that _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ Yeah, you can pretty much use triggers to sample whatever you want you can even sample Glenn Fricker _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ Speaking of Glenn Fricker
He actually did a really good video on how to use triggers to control gates and help minimize bleed during drum recording
You can check that out right here.
Oh shit
Mike
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_ All right, folks.
That is all the time we have for today.
Hope you enjoyed the video.
We will see you next time
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