Better understanding of different midi packs

[Sonny Luciano]

So I need someone to school me on this…I have 8 songs, used different midi packs, i.e., black metal, metal machinery, etc., etc.,…I dragged them into my DAW (Protools 2018 on MAC OSX). Even though I maxed the velocity in the midi instrument track, all the velocities are different on every song.I notices this when I go in to volume automate from single kick to double to blasts. They are routed multichannel to aux tracks in protools. And it makes it really hard to match the levels and mix them to be consistent. I have the same kit selected, so shouldn’t it all sound the same? What is the defining character of the drum sound? The midi pack or the kit selection?

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[Scott Eshleman]

As the MIDI grooves are generally performed & recorded by different drummers,
I’m guessing that the defining character, tone, or sound differences between two grooves played back on the same kit
would have to be the velocity of the MIDI events that create those grooves.

Realizing the many samples of each kit piece that are available for software to choose from at each velocity layer,
the explicit tonal variations could be mind-numbing.

[Sonny Luciano]

It really is mind-numbing and makes it difficult to mix when most MIDI packs do not contain enough grooves to make entire albums, for me anyways. I am of the thought that I will need to create generic drums using the same MIDI pack, then go into the DAW’s instrument track and change it to make my own. I feel it will take 10 years to complete an album with consistent drums using EZdrummer (slight exaggeration).

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