It’s why it takes me about 5 straight days of editing drum MIDI’s to get them where I want them writing them doesn’t take me long but adjusting the velocities takes me forever. Just like us guitar players won’t hit every note with the exact same pick attack for every note, it’s the same thing with drums. If you look at the supplied MIDI’s in an piano roll, you can see how much the velocities vary, putting some dynamics in there. The biggest gripe about drum VST’s is that they don’t sound human enough and it’s due to many users using one velocity on every single hit….especially the djent crowd putting everything at 127. I suggest anyone unfamiliar with programming drums buys at least one good MIDI pack that was performed by an actual drummer so the files can be viewed in an educational sense. The MIDI files having a more human-feel is most likely due to the velocities. For the days I’m being lazy and want to snag a fill from a MIDI file, I just drag it from the Grooves section in SD3 right into Logic and Bob’s your uncle. Since I write 90% of my drum tracks out myself, I just do everything in Logic’s piano roll.

Can’t have that huge reverb over blast beats!Įdit- I also never use the sequence editor in SD3. I actually upgraded because of the fact that I could get the raw samples because I wasn’t a fan of how far I could go with EZD, then once I upgraded, found that they sounded so good I was barely doing any tweaking at all.įor the most part, outside of small EQ adjustments I do within SD3, I always route the whole kit to an aux bus for parallel compression, then I’ll route just the snare to an aux bus so I can automate reverbs because I tweak the mix of the reverb depending on the section of the song. There’s PLENTY of presets/kits that are already EQ’d and sound great as-is, you’ll only have to tweak for specific things you’re looking for.

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