Topic: Adding more feel and realism?

Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total)

Replied January 16, 2020 at 06:19 #2532387

Brick Fist Pow
Participant

I wouldn’t randomize velocity, but I would randomize the timing a little, just so all the drums to fall exactly on the beat. That would humanize the performance. I would manually change the velocity to add accents where needed. I like parallel compression a lot to add more energy.

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.1.5
Operating system: Windows 10

Replied January 16, 2020 at 19:17 #2532546

Bear-Faced Cow
Participant

If you want to maintain realism, don’t quantize right to the grid. Keep it tight enough that it is in time, but loose enough to sound human. as well, don’t quantize every kit piece. Not everything needs to be brought in. Considering that it was played by a human, I wouldn’t touch the velocities.

jord

Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

Replied January 16, 2020 at 23:33 #2532583

Mark King
Participant

Make sure the drum module triggering is set up correctly so the velocities reflect real drums. Manually move notes or phrases rather than quantise. I do quantise but only one that moves notes closer and not a hard quantise. Don’t just quantise the lot go through the performance and maybe quantise parts from phrases and move other bits manually. Delete notes that shouldn’t be there even though really quiet the clean up. I try to play a full performance and not do it in parts. If I did a great performance but made a couple of mistakes I will just fix those. SD3 already does random so there should be no machine gunning. I also change velocities if required usually because of a slight miss hit. Triggering edrums is not quite as forgiving as acoustic drums.

SD3 with older sdx,s plus Rooms of Hansa and Death & Darkness. Cubase and wavelab current versions. Roland TD50x using all trigger inputs for triggering SD3 only. Windows 11 computer. Various keyboards and outboard gear as well as VST instruments. Acoustic drums: Yamaha 9000 natural wood and Pearl masters. Various snare drums. RME BabyFace Pro FS and Adam A7X monitors

Replied January 18, 2020 at 02:46 #2532859

peter knight
Participant

It depends on the quality of the original drummer…..

In some cases, a hard quantise, then adding randomness to the timing via a kit piece (eg snare pushes or pulls a little) and editing the velocities of say the high hat is actually much quicker and gets a better result.

Of course a quality drummer with the modules velocities dialled in may require no editing.

Replied January 25, 2020 at 06:15 #2534173

weekneez
Participant

Thanks heaps all xx

Replied April 6, 2020 at 04:25 #2557063

stm113
Participant

I’m doing the same. I don’t quantize every thing but I do correct what needs it. One thing I do make sure that I do is make sure the first beat falls almost exactly on the one in the beginning of sections, or every 8 “beats” or bars.

this helps a lot if you are also using programmed instruments.
Author

Replies

Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total)

Adding more feel and realism?

Superior Drummer 3 Help

Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total)