- #ADDICTIVE DRUMS VS SUPERIOR DRUMMER REDDIT FULL#
- #ADDICTIVE DRUMS VS SUPERIOR DRUMMER REDDIT SOFTWARE#
Subtle tweaks in the velocity can create this effect. If a drummer were to do two hits of the kick with a single peddle in quick succession the first hit is often lighter with the second following immediately with more power. Thinking like a drummer is always easier if you have drumming experience but if you pay close attention when listening to your favorite songs you will start to pick out subtle variations in volumes of various drums.įor a kick drum, you need a variety of velocities. You have to think like a drummer when if you want your MIDI drums to sound real and a constant velocity is just not realistic. This ends up with a sound like a machine gun, potentially sending listeners ducking for cover. I often hear a snare drum roll programmed with all the notes at the same velocity.
This will be a value in the range of 0 to 127, with 127 unsurprisingly being the loudest and 0 being silence. Velocity is simply the volume at which a particular MIDI note sounds. I explained all about MIDI in this recent article and I talk at length about various MIDI settings you can manipulate in your DAW software. But explore the internet and the hundreds of videos on youtube of people using the VSTs.Ģ) Vary the MIDI velocity levels to add random variationĪnother big giveaway that your drums are programmed is having constant MIDI velocity throughout the drum track. I also really like EZ drummer for creating realistic drums. I use samples from all over the place but a couple of good places to start are Addictive Drums and Superior Drummer. Many of the best VSTs will actually use recordings of real drums, giving you a more realistic sound straight away over a drum machine that artificially ‘creates’ drum sounds.
#ADDICTIVE DRUMS VS SUPERIOR DRUMMER REDDIT SOFTWARE#
But this doesn’t mean simply using the cheapest or first piece of hardware and software you stumble upon! One of my main aims is to allow you to create great music at home on a budget. If you start off with something rubbish, you are always fighting an uphill battle and no amount of mixing, tips or hacks will get you that great sound you desire. This first tip may be the most obvious, but it is important to state that (to a point) if you start with crap you will more than likely end up with something that sounds….well, crap! So the easiest thing you can do is take some time to research and get yourself a good quality virtual drum kit or some high-quality drum samples. So I’ve compiled a list of 15 tricks and tips to help you make your MIDI drums sound just like the real thing. But there are loads of things you can do to make MIDI drums sound more realistic and create great sounding tracks. There are certain elements of MIDI drums that can be a give away to the listener. I have been doing this for a while in my music as I just don’t have the time, space or budget to be recording live drums on all my tracks.īut many people say that they can tell straight away if drums on a track are MIDI and not live, and this is often true. The truth is that it is much less stressful (and cheaper) to use MIDI drums or sampled drums.
#ADDICTIVE DRUMS VS SUPERIOR DRUMMER REDDIT FULL#
This is on top of the fact that most of us just don’t have the space to have a full mic’ed up drum kit in our home recording studio! You’ve got to think about room acoustics, microphone type, microphone positions and much more besides.
Well, unfortunately, to get live drums sounding good, or even average, is no easy task. Ok, so we all wish we could have awesome sounding live drums on our recordings right?