No drummer would be able to hit a snare with both sticks at the exact same time, for example, nor make a snare roll crescendo increase in volume perfectly smoothly.ģ.
Besides writing drum parts that would be intuitive for a drummer, adjusting velocities and all that, you can also shift shit a little bit out of time. What's already been said about adding in human elements. So many absolutely dogshit bands have a human being behind the kit, but to what end?Ģ. 'Real' is an unnecessary marketing tactic - it doesn't necessarily mean the music is good. Sounding good is more important than sounding real. Hexenkraft - diabolical cyberpunk darksynthĬosmic Atrophy - extradimensional death metalġ. Simply programming and drawing in notes on the piano roll will not yield satisfying results if your aim is realism. Even if you don't have a real drummer, you can still get a human performance by using tools such as a MIDI keyboard or percussive sample pad like the Akai samplers. With the right libraries, you can have enough samples to match the minutiae of your average drum performance with things like side sticks, rim shots, flams and ghost notes, uneven loudness and velocities in your strikes and so forth. An exclusively sampled kit can be played by an individual drummer on an electronic MIDI kit and have an entirely human performance. I am still 100% confident in that claim, by the way. Apart from crazy things like wild cymbal washes, you can pretty much capture the heart and soul of any given drum kit and make it easily reproducible. It's just too easy to play *most* of the given articulations that are possible on a drum set. Drum programming has advanced a lot since Minas Morgul, and similarly the standard for drum production in contemporary metal has shifted towards a mechanical, quantised and sampled sound.īy the way, another brilliant album with programmed drums: Brood of Hatred - Identity Disorder I believe rexxz said once that he could give you an A-B test of mixes with programmed drums, and drums recorded from an acoustic set, in such a way that you wouldn't be able to tell which one is which.
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