I am completely new to programming and editing drums. What’s worse is that I’m a guitarist, not a drummer! This is such a beginner question, but I’m hoping someone can either help me out or point in the direction of a complete tutorial of drum programming. I’m trying to edit some of the existing grooves in SD3 using the built in drum editor. Overall, it seems much more straight forward than using the midi editor on Protools. My issue, however, is that the grooves are not quantized (I’m assuming because they’re played by real drummers). I was trying to add a bit of double bass over a section of an existing groove and everything I did seemed incorrect. I was thinking that I might quantize the existing groove so that everything fit to the grid, add my notes, and then randomize them back to their original positions. When I did this, however, the groove ended up sounding nothing like the original. I then thought that I might just try to eyeball each hit and place them in the middle of the grid similar to the position of those already in the groove, but this not only sounded bad, it just seemed like it couldn’t possibly be the right way to approach editing.
I have been searching Youtube and online forums for something that starts from the ground up, but everything I find seems to assumed such a high level of prior knowledge about DAW’s, drum programming, etc. that I am usually lost within minutes. I’m really hoping someone can help. If there are any courses or 1-1 tutors that anyone knows of I would be super grateful. I’m convinced that I’m capable of learning how to do this, but I can’t stop thinking, “how the heck did anyone learn how to do this on their own.”
Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.2.3Operating system: Windows 10
