Mark Knecht wrote:
> It's an interesting problem. About a year ago I took some jazz
> recordings that I like a lot by Bill Bruford. I love his drumming and
> was studying it to learn more about how I might program MIDI drum
> patterns. Of course, as you start doing this you want to see how your
> patterns mix and mesh with what a real drummer is doing, so I loaded a
> few of his tracks into Pro Tools, loaded my MIDI patterns, adjusted
> everything latency wise and went to work. The very first thing I found
> was that his band's tempo varied almost measure by measure. 102.15,
> 101.56, 102.4, 101.9, etc. It became very difficult to map my work
> against his audio for any extended period of time.
That's always a big issue with using electronic drums, they are *too*
even tempo and mechanical sounding. A good drum machine should allow
for 'humanizing' the tempo, so it varies a little in some non-linear
fashion, as well as the velocities, so the loudness of the transients
aren't always the same. A lot of cheap hardware devices don't do
this... some software ones do (Hydrogen, for example).
Trying to emulate someone like Bruford with a drum machine is going to
be next to impossible. Hell, trying to emulate his style with a human
is next to impossible!
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