As said above turn it up! the real solution is keep your monitors at the correct level your used to listening at. Everything will fall into place this way. We often turn them down , say while overdubing, and forget to put them back at our benchmark level. Our benchmark is what we set for mixing at say 85db. ( as measured on a db meter) I have a white out mark on my master level knob. So in other words, a Master Buss output of o db will be 85db listening level.
If you start a project and have your monitor output set lower, say 75db, your going to push your tracks to try and get back to 85db and here lies the problem. A clipping drum track should result in a 0 master buss and be 85db in the room and obviously loud to your ears.
And don't forget that with midi the velocity of each drum part makes a huge difference. I try and keep things at around 100 as the middle point. There are sometimes differences in the timber of the drum sample at different velocity levels. Avoid maxing them out all the time.