Post your best simulated drums!!!

Heres a collab I did with an american girl (I'm in New Zealand) I used Jamstix 2 and Addictive Drums to achieve this. I was happy with the realism of the result. Cheers Jed

Dave, sounds good!!

I bought an Alesis ControlPad a few months back and have been brushing up on my drumming skills (i started out as a drummer way back when). I had gotten lazy and was doing quick drum track/s programming with EZ Drummer. I'm still using EZ Drummer - just playing everything myself now. If time is a problem you could also just work up some midi files of yourself playing and create a groove folder in EZ for them. If doing that, i would make the files at least 8-16 bars - that way you'll have subtle variations in the "loop". You can always chop/slice as needed once imported. Another problem i have with all of the midi files (and most audio drum loops) that come with these drum apps is that the fills are far too complicated. Give me a Ringo fill any day of the week! Most of the stock fills sound like Neil Peart played them. I love Peart's playing, but unless i'm doing some epic prog rock piece (it's hard to find decent mushrooms around here, so the concept prog piece will have to wait), I don't need 'em. Again, you can play the type of fills you like then put 'em in the EZ folder (or whatever drum app you're using). BTW, I just got the Funkmasters EZX in a 2-for-1 deal and I highly recommend it. Great sounds and two kits from the two best funk drummers to ever grace this earth.

nr. 1: my brother recording his amazing sonor designer drumset with good shure mics for my tracks nr. 2: my hardwaresynths' drums nr. 3: ezdrummer, superior drummer 2 all in all i somehow do not like programmed drums, sound too clinical.

^ true that. you don't want a snare that sounds like a different piece of kit every time the man brings the gavel down, but you also don't want to hear the same 14 kilobytes time after cyndi lauper

maybe not my most realistic ever but then again i wasn't pushing for that

As to playing samples in general, the more you can emulate the behavior of the instrument the more likely you will convince people. Drums and piano samples can easily be played by pianists and drummers. Guitars, saxes etc are a little harder to emulate. Midi strumming rarely sounds realistic no matter how good the samples. One easy way to spot fake drums is the "drummer with 6 arms" hitting a snare, hat, ride and crash at the same time as a tom. :) With other instruments like sax, flute, trumpet etc there are flows to the playing of those instrument that don't sound like the kind of musical runs that keyboard players do. So it's the dynamics, timbre, tone, playing style, range of scale (88 notes on a sax ?:)) and some other things. When it comes to sampled drums and piano most regular folks (listeners) don't care or can't tell when it's done well.

you cant tell me this isnt the best trumpet sound ever:

This track was recorded piecemeal with a click track and drums were added last. Drums are Jim Roseberry's Purrfect Drums samples () triggered by a Hart Prodigy e-drumset through an Alesis DM-Pro. I also took a stereo out of the Alesis samples and mixed it with the Purrfect Drums tracks. They sound like a drum kit because they were played like a drumkit and the samples are fabulous (especially the cymbals - listen to the decay). By the way the Hart kit is in a spare room. :-) Michael P.s. The guitar tracks were also recorded with a POD XT in the interest of "fooling" everyone. ;)