How To Send SSD5 Drums To Separate Tracks In Reaper for Mixing

[@TheJakePoole]

I have added a link to the template in the video description! Please also download the "Read This First" text file as well, it should help you out if you have any issues with getting the template working. Thanks for watching!

[@pcwinstead]

FUCKING FINALLY someone explains this in a way that works. Thanks!

[@user-zw9mc5de6u]

Holy shit. I've been driving myself crazy trying to separate my Alesis Kit in Reaper. I use my Alesis Kit as the input for the drum bus and SSD5 to control the outputs. Every drum on a different channel and what a difference. Thanks man. Awesome job.

[@julianpascale2115]

Great video. Any time im mixing with ssd5 I come here to review it and follow any steps. So useful! Greetings from Argentina.🇦🇷

[@diiegopc]

This is great! After this I would like to learn how to do the same but with MIDI, to change the sound of each track independently.

[@dariomisano5342]

I was struggling with this and you just made my day! blessing amico, thank you thank you

[@user-dn5sl2oo3z]

Good job! Appreciate so much,,,,Thanks.

[@ps3ud0nym]

Thank you, this is so much more tedious than I’m used to from other DAWs

[@sidmosmosis]

This was super useful, thank you so much!

[@TheJakePoole]

I'm glad It helped!

[@sidmosmosis]

@@TheJakePoole I even rendered individual pre-recorded material as audio stems for mixing later, but the smartest thing is to save as a template, as you pointed out! so excited for what i can do with reaper and ssd5 now! cheers, and thanks again.

[@Amber_Man]

Thanks for the video Jake, this is great! I was going to ask this but discovered it from messing around, thought I'd add it in for flavour - I was looking for a way to record the audio of each drum sound onto the separate tracks. Found out if you change Record Input to Record Output on the individual drum tracks it works.

[@mariovaliquette5310]

Thx man to take your time to do this video Very clear explanation 👍👍👍

[@TheJakePoole]

Glad it was helpful, and have fun mixing!

[@lionellavergne1]

thx realyrealy much for this video !

[@redhorsereincarnated5040]

Very helpful. Thank you.

[@AstorE742.]

Bless up man ..thats nice .. I would love to have that set up .thanks .

[@HiggsBosonandtheStrangeCharm]

........good tutorial...nice work.....well done....

[@aphluent]

Thank you.

[@TheSwanepoelmj]

Nice supperior drummer grooves Haha

[@RonyRaven]

Thank you😃🤝

[@daviansometimes]

My ageing brain got mega confused so I loaded your template and that demo played back fine - thanks! Unfortunately, I can't work out how to get my midi keyboard to play the notes/sounds 😭

[@TheJakePoole]

@daviansometimes I'm not in front of my computer right now to have this exactly right, but you should be able to find it in the preferences menu, I believe, and select it as a midi controller, and then on the track, you set it as your input, instead of "input 1", and usually select "all channels". I know that's vague, but I hope it helps.

[@diiegopc]

Thank you very much! Is there a way of doing this with a cable view? Like dragging and plugging cables

[@ComatoseMN]

Thank you. Yeah, the actual tutorial from SSD themselves is pretty worthless. So thank you for doing the goddamn thing, man!! >M

[@TheJakePoole]

You're very welcome. Glad I could help!

[@carth531]

late to comment, but The plugins im putting on my main bus (to effect the whole set) dont apply. i ahve to manualy input all 30 input/ouput in the IO setting in EACH plugin im using. any ideas?

[@michaelkaastrup5429]

Great video. Thanks, and thanks for all the work you did.

[@TheSwanepoelmj]

Usefull video though. Thanks

[@alejandromacdonald6203]

Anyoe tried in Cakewalk? I can't find the routing option 😔

[@coloneljcd6041]

Isnt there a right click menuitem on the vst that does this automatically?

[@davepoulsen-bi9un]

Great video that was awesome what I was looking for I'm fairly new at this so I don't have to set this all up again do you have a video on saving this as a envelope I would assume that would be very helpful to save this project especially if I want to come back in play some different play different drum beats Beats?

[@TheJakePoole]

You can save it as a template, basically just save the project once you've set it up, and if you ever use it, just hit "save as" and change the name of the project to save the new thing without overwriting the template. If it helps, I do have an empty template of this project in the video available. There's a download link in the description. 😊

[@davepoulsen-bi9un]

PS just thought I'd let you know running Reaper 7 thanks again for all your help awesome Channel I have learned a lot from you keep up the great work

[@davepoulsen-bi9un]

@@TheJakePoole I got it working and by the way thanks for the template it was very helpful have a great day my friend

[@cdkilo77]

If I wanted to do basically the same thing but with mono drum tracks instead of stereo, what would I do different?

[@synthesaurus]

How are these Busses routed? are they summing up signals from respective instruments and then sending them to the "boss" track? For some reason my Tom bus when muted is still heard.

[@TheJakePoole]

The busses should have no routing to or from them. Routing is only to the individual instrument tracks. I just prefer to divide the instrument tracks onto busses to use as a sort of "master fader" for it. Also, plugins placed on each buss will affect every track within that buss. For example, the snare top, bottom, and sample tracks will all go under a track labeled "Snare Buss", and you can use that "Snare Buss" as a fader and to process all 3 snare tracks simultaneously, rather than individually. I guess I sort of just threw the busses in there out of habit, because I route many things this way. You don't technically need them, but I find they add a lot of quality of life to mixing. Hah. But hopefully that helps!

[@synthesaurus]

@@TheJakePoole When I mute a tom buss (sub folder) I still hear the toms for some reason. Can't figure out how the signal passes in Reaper.

[@TheJakePoole]

@synthesaurus When it is unmuted and the toms are playing, do you see the meter moving on the individual tom tracks? It's hard to tell what's going on without being able to be hands-on with it, unfortunately. If the meter is only moving on the track with the drum plugin on it, then you may not have routed the audio out of the drum plugin correctly.

[@synthesaurus]

@@TheJakePoole thank you for responding. I think the signal was coming through OH channel in SSD. Basically I wanted a subfolder summing Toms within the SSD assigned tracks. Reaper has too many options and I get easily lost , lol

[@kieran0000]

Hey man great video, are you going to link the project download template? thanks

[@TheJakePoole]

Thank you! Glad you found it helpful! Since someone showed interest in it, I'll put a link to it as soon as I find out how I want to go about doing it. Haha

[@TheJakePoole]

I just added a link to the template in the description!

[@jdestrada6281]

Hey which layout do you use? It looks super clean and comfortable to use.

[@TheJakePoole]

It's a default layout, although I think I slightly modified it, and with the theme called "Fusion_RJ_ARTmod_5".

[@davepoulsen-bi9un]

Great video I just had another quick question so after I got it all set up and I've got my Edrums that I want to record to this layout would I have to arm each track I'm a little new to this by the way I'm using Reaper and the free version of SSD as you have shown in this video thanks for answering my previous question

[@TheJakePoole]

I have a Roland TD17-KVX kit and all I have to do is set it as the midi input on the main track that has SSD5 on it. You may have to do some changes as far as what "midi note" your kit plays when you strike the pads, but that's pretty easy to do. I think I had to do it when I added a 4th tom pad to my kit, but it's been a while so I don't remember exactly what I did. I think it can be changed in either your kit module or SSD5.

[@davepoulsen-bi9un]

@@TheJakePoole okay awesome I will give it a try I just have the Alesis Nitro mess kit thanks again for your fast reply I love your Channel keep up the awesome work have a good one

[@davepoulsen-bi9un]

​@@TheJakePooleyeah as mentioned got it working however I think I'm doing something wrong when I open up the project in the reaper I get this message. The following effects were in the project file and are not available Reaper will keep their configurations, but things may not sound as desired track 1 VST SSDsamples5 (Steven slate) 48 out. Still learning things on Raper but slowly getting there & PS I do like the Hugo kit on SSD I think they did a good job on that mix. Thanks again

[@TheJakePoole]

@davepoulsen-bi9un If you're using my template, it's possible that it's because the version of SSD5, or location of your plugin data is different than what I had at the time. What happens if you open your SSD5 in a different project instead? Does it work there and just not in my template? If so, you'll probably have to replace the plug-in on the track with what you have, which means you'll probably have to do all the routing within SSD5 again, but all of the Reaper-side of the routing will already be done. If not, then most likely you either moved the ".dll" file of SSD5 to another folder, or deleted it somehow. I Googled "SSD5 DLL not detected in Reaper" and the first search result was a Reddit post that may be helpful to you.

[@davepoulsen-bi9un]

@@TheJakePoole okay awesome I'll look into it thanks for your fast reply my friend

[@jonbenedictpasana9383]

Hello, what do i do if i wanna add an effect - say a reverb plugin - onto the drum bus? or a stereo manipulator plugin so I could place the entire drumset to the back of the mix, what do I have to do? maybe i missed something

[@TheJakePoole]

Just treat it like you would an actual audio track while mixing. If you put effects on the drum buss track, it will affect the entire kit. Just make sure the effect is placed AFTER the SSD5 plugin in the signal chain. Putting effects on any sub buss, say for example, the snare buss, will affect only the snare sound, but the whole snare sound. (Top, bottom, sample, etc all together). And then of course, applying effects to an individual track, for example, "snare top", will only affect the snare top audio. If for some reason, placing effects on the drum buss track isn't working, you could place the entire drum track group under another track, and put the effects on that track, and that should work, at least in theory. Please let me know if this helped! If it didn't, I'll look into it further. (I know you didn't ask for all of this info, but I wanted to be thorough so hopefully it will help someone else who may have a related question.)

[@jonbenedictpasana9383]

@@TheJakePoole Hello! I understand now, thank you very much for this. It is very informative and It makes a lot of sense and I don't mind you telling me about the extra info, I actually might need it too myself so thanks alot!!

[@RobDementia]

@@TheJakePoole template works great mate , cheers! do u have any other vids regarding how you would treat each track, buss etc with plugins for mixing?

[@danilobatterista]

Is anyone having trouble with midi in? I uploaded SSD five on the drum bus track, and set all midi channels in, and still getting no signal from my edrum

[@TheJakePoole]

Have you downloaded your drum kit's drivers? You should be able to select it in the midi device menu. There's a tutorial for adding midi instruments in Reaper on KZbin somewhere.

[@danilobatterista]

@@TheJakePoole Yes, I used to play with stevenslate drums before, never had problems. I also created midi control profile for my Millennium e drum

[@nathand422]

thanks! 16 minutes though?

[@TheJakePoole]

Just trying to be clear with what each of the steps do. Also, I was just winging it, no script or anything to make it any shorter.