Midi drums and metal don't mix

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Alright I have a few riffs that I want to put down to some midi drums down before I find a drummer. My question is, it sounds god awful when I do it. I should say I am trying to metal it up but it sounds so fake it hurts. The samples sound nice but playing at fast speeds just sound awful. I have read where you can change it up or down a few semitones and change the velocity. I should say I am running pro tools 6.7 le and have an mpc 1000 that i make the beats on to begin with. Then I just send them via midi into pro tools. I have heard you can slide the snare or kick around a little bit so it is not dead on but it still doesn't sound that great. I hear of all these metal producers that use triggers and samples and they do well, so what's the deal?

Anybody have any info on things to try or do? I would say pro tools has not been to midi friendly and i am definitely new at this so it has been quite a learning experience.
 
I have battery 2 so the sounds are pretty good. But when the double bass starts kicking in it sounds fake and on blast beats or at least fast cymbal action it sounds awful.
 
Chances are the people doing those beats that you like are using a lot of signal processing to get the feel that they want. Highly doubtful they are just recording the drums "right out of the box" so to speak.

I'd say try some compression, distortion or tone mangling of some sort on some of the samples and see if you can get them to have more of the vibe you want. One trick that is fairly common is to layer the drums under themselves. So you'd have your clean version, and then you'd lay really super compressed distorted version under that, and mix them to how you like them. That will give clean sampled drums a lot more grit and vibe.
 
Ahh thanks for the tips. I did thank about trying that but I thought it might make the drums to messy. Thanks!
 
take a look at the more organic drum samplers like BFD or the drum kit from hell. Both have "humanizing" features which should help
 
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