Midi Drums to Realistic Drums

[muusik]

Hi Guys,

I am attempting to make backing track with drum kit created on a midi file. But this obviously doesnt sound realistic? How do i go about making it sound more like a drum kit rather than a computer generated sound? Do i use a special program?

Tim

[ssscientist]

Just a few weeks ago Cloneboy and AlChuck tried to talk you thru this very process and now you're asking the same question in the same forum...

Did you even read the responses you got the first time?

If what you are asking was easy then everyone would have great sounding drum tracks all the time. But what you are asking is VERY difficult. Some have even made the pursuit of the perfect machine made drum track a holy grail, a lifetime goal, something to aspire to that's just out of reach...

And you seem to be asking which button you need to push and how long you need to hold it down.

Silly rabbit. Hire a drummer.

[Toki987]

i`m considering more and more that each note that drummer hits on a real kit is so particularly dynamic that the only best way to reproduce it authentically is to just record the drummer. To get the same out of a machine, you`d have to split every note played to it`s own track. The velocities would need to be incremental in possibly hundreths of units instead of the minimals allowed by most machines in order the replicate the varying tensions of each note. The eq would have to be individualized for each note due to velocity affecting harmonics in each tones with a resulting change in timbre. Then the placement of each note in time would have to done one note at the time for each part of the drumkit.Then you got ambience to deal with. It could take months to make it real sounding enough to even qualify, unless you had an algorithim that would skew everything well enough to faux pass it. Yep, I think also that the only true way around it is to hire or beg a drummer. Although doing a little bit of what I was talking about helps. There`s some guys that have gotten some incredible likenesses of a real kit using midi drums, I`m just not one of them.

[kevinfellows85]

ok.. there are solutions to this..
I havent read what had been posted on the forum before.

just check these links out

http://www.toontrack.com/index_samples.shtml
http://www.fxpansion.com/product-bfd-main.php

[lykwydchykyn]

http://www.alandmoore.com/ramblings/TheoryOfDP.htm