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John,

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I'm no expert on midi, but the snare rolls sound like midi. You need to work on that to get it sounding more natural. The tone of the kick drum and snare sound nice, but the hi-hat and cymbal hits don't quite sound natural yet. Good start though.

Randy

Ok for what little worth my opinion is, have you messed with the Velocity and Quantize midi effects, they do work but they take sometime to master.

What I would do is cut your midi tracks up, so have the kick on the beat, put the toms and snares onto their own midi track and use the velocity and quantize effects.  Just read the manual of the quantize and midi effect's and you will work it out.

For the hi hats I would also put these onto a seperate midi track and depending on track, so for this track, it's driving you want the hi hats just in front of the beat.

Leave the crash's like the Kick on the beat.

If I haven't made any sense, I will try and explain it better just ask.  One of these days, I will get screen capture software and put some lessons up.  

These midi effects do work, just read the instruction manual and use your ear, they are tricky at first but once you have it, you will know.

Don't be frightend to experiment, like use two velocity effects on one midi track.

When I get my machine back up and running and if your still interested I will explain some of this stuff better, X1d stuffed up my SSD 3 and my download of X1 is corrupt and I don't any download limit for a couple of days to rectify this.

But I will try and help you as best I can

As I say just ask if you have anymore questions.

Neb

John,

Just to be clear, the only parts I thought needed "humanizing" were the snare rolls. They have that "machinegun" midi drum sound. The rest of the drums sound pretty good.

Randy

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Thanks for taking time to check it out. I have done very little editing to the initial midi data and have introduced the variations in time, velocity and and feel using the kontakt interface. The midi is already on individual tracks for the kick, snare, hats and overheads for cymbals.

The pseudo guitars are midi that's been run through dimension pro to create audio, and then on to guitar rig. They are very bad, to the point that I didn't see any value in trying to humanize them.

The purpose was to take a stock GM track for drums and reprogram a kontakt drum kit (garage kit) to get the Bonham sound and feel by tuning the drums and randomizing certain aspects of the kit. The bass is scarbee MM bass and I don't like it at all since I previewwed trillian.

It's very interesting that Randy thinks I should loosen up the drum tracks while Ben thinks I should tighten them up with quantizing. I truly appreciate the comments and hope I can get a couple more.


Cheers!

Actually what I was suggesting was as Randy has suggested, by using midi effects on the snares and toms you losen the playing, so you randomize the velocity and quantization.  This will humanize the feel of those rolls, or so it should.
 
What I was doing was thinking like a drummer, the kick, and crash on the beat, the hi hats a little in front of the beat and the snares and toms a little random.
 
Ask if you have any further questions.
 
Ben