Rider-First song with new digital Drums

So I thought I'd fight may way through an easy one first. This is my arrangement of an old song you might have heard done by the Dead or Hot Tuna. 

https://soundcloud.com/john-vere/rider

Got to work out how to even out velocity on the kit. I tried the pad sensitivity adjustment which seem to make no difference to the MIDI output. So the snare is up and down like a yo yo. 
Ya I know I can edit it, maybe tomorrow.. Or learn how to hit more evenly... Real drums don't do that. 

Congrats John! I'd be pleased with a "first try" . Velocity scaling ? Did you record the midi separately? to experiment with? What kind of digital drums?
    I just got my BFD2 box and picked up an Alesis ControlPad, just to start messing around with that. I am aiming at a DrumKat DK10 or whatever they are at now.... my ears can't take the cymbals anymore.  Michael

Michael- The drums are Yamaha DTX 400K, I recorded Via USB to MIDI.  
My timing is not great so I don't dare record the analog out at this point. 

I'm using SD 3 for snare and the kit,, TTs-1 for Kick, I do it this way and bounce the SD3 to an audio track so I can add reverb. Bummer SD 3 has no efx send on mixer, that would be cool. Funny TTS-1 does. 

The sounds from the brain are better overall as they are way more interactive with playing. The ride cymbal has a bell and very different. I can use the Brain but it would involve recording midi, Editing, send back to brain and record audio output. What I don't like about this idea is your drums are all on one stereo track so no control durring the big mix. I guess I could keep the kick separate easy enough. 

 I will try this later. I would prefer to just find a way to make it so VST's would respond properly. 

I'm digging in the SD folder looking for better sounds. They have to be SFX or they suck  even more. This will take time like all things to do with DAW recording and getting what you want out of this stuff. 

Regardless of the drums, you did a good job on the song overall.  Your vocal work was particularly good.  It's good to hear songs like this.

Niffty?? I'm not sure that's a compliment? ha ha! 

I tend to be a Teleblaster guy by default, To many New Riders and Burrito Brothers albums when I was young I guess.

 That's my G&L ASTAT (Japan) which only has 2 sounds but they're both most excellent. The Amp is my trusty Princeton ( 1973). I also used my dobro and will be adding Banjo via by friend Corky soon. 
Not happy with back up vocals,,, picky picky picky... 

But thanks to all for listening I really do value your input. 

Yee Haw! over all not bad. the stops were a nice change of pace. However, there was a really bad hissing noise at about the 1:18 mark during the guitar solo.

New Riders, Burritos, Poco, Nitty Gritty..... all that country rock shining through. 

Nice work, I do remember hearing this back in the day. 

The recording is good, nice tone and nice playing. 

Enjoyed that a lot. Makes me wanna go dig out the old 33LPs and spin them again. 

Well your not actually hearing the DXT as I said I just used Session drummer, It was a matter of finding good sfx sounds in a hurry and not to happy so far, Next week when I get a chance I will figure out how to use the DTX sounds and re post the song.  

The other issue I had was velocity was different than the sound you get from the kit. I played listening to the brain on the headphones with Sonar input to the aux in. 
The problem is Session drummers sounds will react differently to velocity than the DTX sounds, So you don't get the same dynamics. I have never figured out how to globally edit the velocity I tried CAL but it gave mixed results. So was not happy with how the midi track turned out in that way.   
Your right about the stiff sound of the drums I believe it's a result of quantasizing to 16th notes. Got to come up with a better system on that too. When you paly drums on the keyboard that's about the fastest I could go, so for years I've used 16th or 16th triplet. But these new digital kits are very accurate with subtle rolls and fills. That got flushed with the quatasizing. The best sound would be from the audio output but that would then be only a stereo track ( with this model) and my timing is a little off which I cannot stand.  
I could always record one part at a time and use audio snap but then your back to square one and the results will sound unnatural. 
The real solution is to get better at kit playing which I will hope is still possible at 60 for me. I don't really like having to "cheat". I had a real kit for years but never played it because of angry looks from dog and wife... this is a new age of quiet drumming and I can practice a lot more now.  
  
The hiss seems to be an artifact created in uploading, It's not in my original MP3. Go figure? I have a funky internet using G3 cell network so uploading is dicey. It often stalls. 
The song is a work in progress will be replacing one guitar solo with banjo. Just gave my friend the file to work on. 

Thanks a bunch for input everyone 

This thread is confusing. 

"First song with new digital drums....The drums are Yamaha DXT 400K....I didn' use the kit...." 

How do you spell schizophrenia?

Yes I thought that was very clear. I don't think very many people use the sounds from the brain ( somehow that sounds funny)  when using digital drums. The difference is a matter of using a real drum like interface to input the data as opposed to using loops or a midi keyboard. 

You actually need to PLAY the drums.

 So this song was my first song attempt using a set of digital drums -- as an input device.    
Using the sounds from the drums involves either playing perfectly ( not me yet! ) or re recording the midi data sent back to the brain and audio recorded from brain - which I will do later this week and re post. 

Hi John , I'll be buying the DTX400K next week myself . I plan on pluggin my DTX400K set into my addictive drum software to trigger the drums sounds from that software .
I also have the Steven Slate drum software too so I might test that software out as well to see how it works out with this kit your using .

Have a question about this kit , how do you like the kick pedal that is included with this kit ? Its suppose to be very quite when playing in apartments and I live in a apartment , noise from a kick pad is a big factor for me .

Anyway after I order this kit next week and get it all setup I will do some recording and post it so you can hear what it sounds like after I plugin to my addictive drum software .

Happy Drumming Cheers -James