![]() ![]() ![]() I go into VSTs GUI, I find the samples that I like the most, move mic faders a bit if I want and then do multiout to get each drum mic I want on separate tracks in DAW. You can also study those professional midi packs and learning how they do it. It mostly comes to knowing how to play drums yourself, not writing non-sensical grooves or fills, doing slight expressions and articulations like ghost notes, rimshots and various hihat stuff, slight timing deviations but most importantly choosing right velocity ranges. Adding, removing and modifying notes with mouse, then quantizing/randomizing them might seem slow at first, but you come at systems to do it rather quickly and efficiently. It might be faster to just play these parts on MIDI keyboard, especially if I have inspiration and I'm in mood to "play" the drums. Often I have to program it myself because I have something specific in mind and no groove library option is fit for that or I don't know these groove libraries by heart to remember which exact groove/fill fits it. I think you can get good drums by programming it yourself, although modifying existing groove libraries is probably the most consistent, fastest and sure way to get good drums. This is not necessarily a gear-specific question - I'm comfortable doing my own research and finding hardware and software that will work for me once I know the path I want to go down, but the path itself is what I'm struggling with at the moment. ![]() My question is: for those of you without acoustic drums, what's your workflow like? Do you use hardware drum machines? SuperiorDrummer? What hardware do you use to interface with drum VSTs? Sound quality doesn't matter all that much tbh because the recording I do on my own is for demos only - final tracking is always done with my band. I don't have any experience with alternative solutions out there, but what I'm really interested in is something efficient. I love the immediacy of my current workflow - hit record and get a take. I'm a guitarist by trade but I spend quite a bit of time tracking behind the kit, so I'm pretty bummed, but I'm trying to have an open mind. The part of the transition that I'm most worried about is that I'll have to forgo using my acoustic drums for some sort of VST alternative or drum machine. I'm about to move out of a large house with a dedicated studio into a smaller space across the country. ![]()
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