So this thread seems to be all about technique and not about actual tone... how to get the damn things to SOUND real, assuming you have basic 4-limbs programming down to a reasonable level using common sense and years of listening to real drummers do real things.
But someone who actually mics an actual kit would know to do (or not do) A, B and C to their recording/s, or
to get their recordings, but we fake drummers (and when I say "we" I mean "me"
) are left with a gazillion possible parameters to adjust in our VSTI interfaces, and, absent actual drum engineering experience, only a vague idea, based on how we treat other sound sources, of what to do with them.
Seems to me I'm forever fiddling with snare drum samples and sample combinations, balance between top, bottom, overhead and room virtual "mics", pitch controls, envelopes, compression, reverb etc. all in the pursuit of a decent snare sound like the ones I hear the real drummers & good recorders here get from their real drums - but I'm never totally happy that I get it right.
That's what I hoped this thread would be about - not how to program, but how to make the programmed meisterwerk SOUND real.