Make drums machines sound like a drummer

[SKEETER]

I used a SR16 drum machine for years, now i shelled out for mics and use live drums too. But, I can program an SR16 to sound like a real drummer, I know some tricks to make drum machines sound natural, If anyone is interested, please respond to this and I will post some interesting programming tricks that I have used for years. You can hear some of it here http://www.angelfire.com/on2/cbriggs/music.html

[socialparasite]

Sure post some drum loops if you you can?

[100%TEXAN]

So . . . fess up already!!! <grin>

I'm all ears.

What's the low down on your tricks?

[gtrhrcane]

I used a SR16 drum machine for years, now i shelled out for mics and use live drums too. But, I can program an SR16 to sound like a real drummer, I know some tricks to make drum machines sound natural, If anyone is interested, please respond to this and I will post some interesting programming tricks that I have used for years. You can hear some of it here http://www.angelfire.com/on2/cbriggs/music.html

Don't be holding out! :(

[tiredollie]

im interested, VERY INTERESTED :)

[b3n]

Is this some kind of sick joke?

C'mon we're hangin' here...what's the word?

[bdemon]

Looks like we're being denied! But one trick that I've discovered (or maybe it was totally obvious to everyone but me) is to tweak the velocity of the different drum parts. When I program, for example, snare hits in Logic I'll tweak the velocity of every hit instead of having all of them maxed out at the same level. It takes a little more work, but having stuff like hi-hat patterns fluctuate in the mix makes a difference.

Many drum sample libraries have multiple hits with different velocities as well, so the snare has many tones. Often I'll use one sample as my main snare and sneak in others that are basically the same, but slightly different, hit with a different intensity, etc. If you do it right it brings a little bit more to the drum part.

I've got a track on my website called "A Moment of Clarity" where I spent a bunch of time tweaking the drums, if anyone's interested, the link's in my sig.

[tiredollie]

come on already

[Concretekiller]

Never going to happen :( -Jason