Audio Recording

OK, say you are using drum samples to power your drum tracks of your produced song. First, let us define what is a drum sample? Drum sample is complete clip of a certain piece of drum parts. In most cases, a drum track can be define by the kick, snare and hi hats for most of the time, so we can say that there are 3 basic drum samples needed to define one complete drum loop.

Using Adobe Audition multi-track software, you can assigned each of those drum samples its own specific track so that you can mix them better. For example, assign track 1 to kick drum sample, track 2 to snare drum sample and finally track 3 for hi hat drum sample.

So when the time comes for mixing, it will be very easy to apply EQ/Compression/effects to each of those drum sample tracks.

What if you asked the question, how do I create drum samples??? There are a lot of ways to do this and it depends on your drum sequencer/software. I am using hot stepper and you can read the procedure here for creating drum samples:

Create drum samples using Hotstepper and Adobe Audition

Producing drum samples in Adobe Audition using sequencer

The main objective of your drum sample is just to create one complete loop. You will have no problem once one loop has been loaded into the multi-track as shown in the screen shot above. You can easily use the Adobe audition clip duplication feature to replicate one loop to create many.

After clip duplication of the drum samples, you track will now looks like: