Dealing with Latency: Recording with Electronic Drums

Video Transcript

"Welcome to Expert Village I'm Steve Blank audio and video engineer for Mind Food Productions here to show you how we can record with electronic drums. We should talk about a word that comes up when your using software to make music and it's latency. The computer get this signal from the drums and then makes a sound but it can't happen instantly so the time between the trigger gets to it or when we hit something and when we actually hear the computer generate it's sound. There's a piece of time there called latency, latency is the time it takes from the software to reproduce the sound. We can hear the latency in when I play this live, when I record the tracks I'll be able to move the late tracks backwards, now right now according to the software we playing the tracks back at 41 millisecond latency. So there's just a piece of time very audible you can hear it ding, ding, ding, you can here this we'll demonstrate that. But we're going to take that out when we do the recording so the strikes will be synchronize (playing) On the drum track we can see where my marker is and when I mark the midi track we can see that the sound started later so I'm going to trim and move that back so now it looks like that."