Drum Rack for synth drums?

[exponent1]

Hi,

I'm trying to make a synthesized drum rack, wherein I want to use different synth instances for every drum sound exclusively viz. Kick, Snare, Hats etc. After doing that, I want to be able play them like how you'd using the Drum Sampler. I tried to accomplish this using a rack, midi note filter for each sound and the different synth instances for the different drum sounds.

Is there an easy way to create such a VST based Drum Rack in Waveform 10? This is very easy to accomplish in Live and Bitwig using their drum rack/machine feature.

Thanks in advance!

[fde101]

A standard Tracktion FX rack would let you combine multiple plugins and string them together. You would need some way to filter the MIDI data to determine which note(s) went to which string of plugins if that is what you are going for - a quick search found this other thread: viewtopic.php?t=497872

[exponent1]

A standard Tracktion FX rack would let you combine multiple plugins and string them together. You would need some way to filter the MIDI data to determine which note(s) went to which string of plugins if that is what you are going for - a quick search found this other thread: viewtopic.php?t=497872

Thank you for your response. I'm actually already using a similar method of midi note filtering and routing to different synth instances within a Rack to achieve that. But it becomes a bit overwhelming once we start putting too many instances and becomes difficult to remember which instance is for what drum sound/midi note, since we probably can't name stuff inside a Rack.

I suspect that the Step Clip does this note/channel filtering already, so there could be a simpler way to achieve this, but I'm not too sure.

[AGreen]

I suspect that the Step Clip does this note/channel filtering already, so there could be a simpler way to achieve this, but I'm not too sure.

Yes it can easily be done with step clips. Put all your instruments in parallel in a rack, connect the audio outputs of each instrument to your track within the rack, then go to the step clip and select a lane by hovering over the clip until names appear on the left hand side and select a name. You will now be able to set the midi channel, midi note and destination from the control panel or actions menu. Select one of the instruments in the rack as your destination and Waveform will add a midi filter and connection to you rack. Repeat for each lane until all instruments have their own channel.

[fde101]

Another option with standard racks is to use a separate rack for each instrument, simply passing the MIDI through the rack so that the next one gets a copy, and mixing the audio coming into the rack with the instrument output to pass it along to the next one.

You could also use a rack that simply connects MIDI in to MIDI out and place instances of the same rack on multiple tracks, using the tracks themselves for the different instruments. Place this MIDI pass-through rack first on each track, and use one of the tracks to hold the MIDI clip being played into the rack. Then your instruments and other plugins come after the rack and all of them should receive the same MIDI data. Keeping each instrument on a separate track should make them easier to manage?


Obviously if the suggestion from AGreen works better for you, go with that - but there is more than one way to tackle this.