![]() ![]() I leave it in that state or commit a stereo drums as a working track. If I have to build a full song arrangement, using Groove Monkee templates, I can probably build it all inside of an hour. ![]() It's so much easier matching MIDI grooves up that are similar and modify them if it's almost there. I need to work fast at times and can't get bogged down trying to make loops and such fit. I quite often blend multiple drums to get "a sound". I get the most bang for buck from their Blackbird studio and CLA drum packs. I have the matching sets for Slate Trigger if I need to enhance or replace drums on a mix for a client due to poorly recorded tracks, or it just needs a tad of augmentation. I use Steven Slate Drums and over many years have all but 1 add-on pack I think. ![]() Early on I used Reason Drum Kits over 10 years ago, but it was only barely cutting it for minimal purposes. In the rare occurrence for writing only I may just use a single 2 or 4 bar loop and that's it. On the right pane, all those TV show/commercial cues are all groove monkee. on my page at on the left pane the first track Bang Bang (it's actually 95% done) is a drummer playing the e-kit, then following 4 tunes are using the Groove Monkee templates I programmed/edited. I really try to treat them as creating a sound that fits the song being produced. I rarely just let them fly as they come out of the drum program, as they will just sound too generic. Once I have a MIDI drum performance where I like it, I will commit those all as individual audio tracks and then treat them just as any recorded drum kit. Loops just don't sound organic and can't sound as much like a player to me. ![]() Sometimes if it's something unique I like in Stylus RMX I'll drop that in. I use primarily Slate Drums nowadays to trigger things on either my PT10HD or PT12HD rigs. You can cut em or change anything you want on them once you are editing them in PT. They are unquantized and actually played by a good drummer. They are pretty inexpensive and they cover just about every format available. I started using them about 10 years ago for quite a bit of TV/Commercial cue work. Either a drummer plays it on my Yamaha DTX920 kit/or sends MIDI files to me, or I use MIDI files from a site called Groove Monkee. I've never had anyone really say they noticed them as virtual. I don't use loops, but rather MIDI triggering the drum samples player. ![]()
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