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What I do like about MIDI drums is it's super easy to just nudge a miss hit into the right place. Out of a full 4-minute song my timing is only fluffs on literally about 4 hits, which I'm happy with, but there's the odd stray snare rim tap that I can just delete, which make life very easy.
I'm happy to fix that sort of thing but I won't quantise - that's for losers and people who are dead inside
I have an Alesis kit and Logic but I haven’t really gotten into Logic yet. I have used my kit in EZ Drummer (meh) and in Presonus Studio One, which sounds nice but is tedious sorting out the channels for each drum/cymbal. But I’m also not great with DAWs.
Been there, but keep falling back into just gigging and left with dozens of half finished ideas. I’m missing the trick to complete them.
Obviously I then spent ages tweaking drum sounds themselves to get it about where I wanted but overall I'm very happy with the process.
Cheers. As I say it has taken years... A chunk of it is primal fears (failure & rejection yay!) getting in the way, so I've picked something extremely low-importance and not remotely serious to get started. Thankfully that will help the band and also enter into the M challenge, so feels good.
And having something un-serious is actually great because I don't actually need to "succeed" at anything here except getting something recorded and mixed and finished. That's the only real goal.
I think I'll make a list of what parts & processes need doing to keep me focussed.
https://www.justgiving.com/page/pianomatt-1000lights
I'm sure we'll see SD4 before much longer, which will bring it up to date and include some of the newer features seen in the more recent EZD3, but for now EZDrummer is the better option for the average user in my opinion. I found that the more advanced options offered by SD3 just didn't get used.
Then the other day I did some drums for something else and then bass, guitar & vocals tonight on that (also down a couple of tones from the original)
I’ll share an early mix in the morning because progress is better than perfection, and I’d love some thoughts on next steps.