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Thank god for midi drums. Imagine having to wait for an actual drummer to write songs.

You can go one step further if you have a beast computer. Take all your drum libraries, average the one with the biggest kit, Make one universal drum map for all of them, matching articulations and sounds. Make Presets including - All Cymbals - All Shells - Kick/Snare Layers. Make an instance for each drum/cymbal, and route and group every individual mic. Take all instances, and make them receive midi from the same channel. With midi drums, you tend to get an awkward buildup of resonance with fast notes in the overheads and rooms. Now you can go in and expand each group down to a singular mic to a singular sound, (for example. OH > Crash 1, or Room Near Crash 2) and eq out problem frequencies, reducing that buildup, which makes a huge difference. It took me a few weeks to setup, but.... save as a presets, and you'll have awesome mix templates for writing drums, the ability to swap things out on the fly, and the ability to build your own kits quickly. Makes songwriting more accurate and fun too. ^^

We've been for over a decade, nothing new there

You can always recognize MIDI by the static cymbals sound, no matter how well it's edited.

I get the idea. Modern music is beats and not songs. But then I am arming a track, get behind my kit, press record and start playing. Besides the sound: this approach is way faster than programming drums.

I love bogren krimh drums ❤

Damn, I love midi drums. Because mixing real drums is pain in the a$$

Mixing a midi drum with an analog compressor is so funny

Is there a better way to get a room track for midi drums? What I’ve been doing is bouncing all the tracks with drums down into an audio file and EQ it to sound like a room..

And bass players are next on the chopping block.

Midi keyboard, bass, drums, vocals, guitar.....

On one hand, this does not sound like the professional drum tracks I am inspired by (Slipknot records aside from AHIG, Korn's Untouchables, Avenged Sevenfold's Nightmare, etc)-it sounds like an overcompressed sampled drum track with no body, drowned in reverberation and placed as far from the listener as if the drum kit was in a concert hall, hitting at velocities no drummer can maintain for a single drum roll. That's simply not what I am after, but. On the other hand, this sound somewhat close to Slipknot's All Hope Is Gone album or Behemoth's Evangelion. So it does work and I can imagine myself enjoying this kind of drum sounds in a mix, given that it fits the music well. The music has to be really aggressive for this to work out and the rest of the mix has to be top notch and specific in the way it sounds. This might sound like a criticism, because it is, and I've tried to get away from this kind of sounds as much as I could, because there is zero definition of the actual drums-you can't hear the actual character of any one drum or cymbal in this kind of drum sound designs, and they never sound real. But this is a good drum sound, and it's also quick and easy to dial into the entire album without spending hours working on highly song-individual drums of a less castrated type of sound, because a different guitar track will require different kick/snare/cymbals or different settings and processing for them. But as someone who doesn't have to work in the factory mode and shit out a mix in a few hours or a day to make mix engineering work as an occupation, I can fully focus on making each kit piece sound to the best of its potential, so a snare doesn't sound like you gave someone a slap on a really fat arse in a concert hall and have it tuned down half an octave, a hi-hat doesn't sounds like you make a "tss" with your mouth, and china doesn't sounds like you make a "cshhh" sound. Overall, understanding just how motherfucking difficult it is to make drums, especially sampled drums, sound like anything even quarter-decent, even for very experienced mixing engineers, this video is really nice and it's a very well done job.

Went to a venue, saw a band playing with two guitars a bass and a frontman. For the rest empty stage no drummer, what a boring experience 😂

Garage

And people still record real drums, because midi stuff not sounds like real one

And here come the gatekeepers who don't realise they listen to albums that have amp sims and midi drums on them. Trust me, you can't tell.

Dont know what planet you're from, but if you think you can replace a real drummer with whatever that is, you're sorely mistaken. I feel sorry for you. 🤣

And that's why this generation of music sounds like absolute dogshit.

i'm not impressed we've been doing this for years

I know of and use an obscure midi drum sample library vst that sounds as real and as nuanced as a real drum performance down to the bleed and the affect that hitting other drums has on the snare wires. Also accurate sounding overheads and room mic tracks. It's not talked about for a reason because while everyone's fussing with all these "popular" drum sample librarys and vsts the ones in the know continue to use these particular vsts from the same gentleman and no one's the wiser while getting perfect repeatable results again and again maximing time and the bottom line. Js... Dig deeper the truth is out there but it's not so obvious. Took a month of searching KZfaq straight for every sample pack and drum vst I could find to discover him. He also not only gives you the vst but the raw samples themselves and the samples coded for slate. Happy hunting ✌🏼🫶🏼