Apple Logic Pro /LogicExpress Discussion

There are many tricks - but all of them seem to be a bit of a hassle.

As Steve said you can layer real percussion over the sequences. One 
thing that really sounds fake fast is cymbols. But a real cymbol is an 
easy investment.

You can also add humanize/randomness.

You can make a bunch of copies of the sequence and go in and tweak them 
individually.

In some programs like NI Battery, I think you can map the velocity of 
the midi note to a little bit of pitch bend to make each hit sound a 
little different.

You can apply groove quantizations. It seemed like years ago they used 
to sell the "DNA" grooves. I have not heard about that in years though. 
I got some samples from a version of Logic (maybe 2.5).

You can automate levels.

You can add extra hits or take away hits.

In the end its almost impossible to get really realistic drums for a 
whole song though.


-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Currington <steve@...>
To: Logic_Cafe@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Mon, Mar 15, 2010 3:39 pm
Subject: Re: [Logic_Cafe] How do you make Apple midi drum loops sound 
more human?

One trick is to harmoinze the tracks and then once done add just a 
couple of simple  real instruments that you record yourself over it..
They can be simple instruments like a triangle or tambourine or shaker 
or something but adding a real human sound to the midi based ones 
really brings the music to life.
Almost anyone can ring a triangle on a beat or shake a tambourine or 
better still simply hit a cymbal on a basic pattern.  You just have to 
use the original midi track as your "click" track ti play along with

Steve


On 16/03/2010, at 9:59 AM, stratjackson wrote:

> OK, using the midi drum loops will have to do for now. So... does 
anyone have any tips for using the quantizing and groove quantizing to 
make the midi drum loops sound more "human?"
> Thanks for your patience with my elementary-level questions!
>
>



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