The Twiddly.BITS MIDI files are played by top professionals like Bill Bruford and the like, on highly advanced MIDI controllers (e-drums and the like) that are able to capture most nuances of natural playing. Their documents make it pretty easy to locate patterns vs. So for those, I find a lot of usable drum tracks as part of the overall MIDI file, even if the rest of the file sucks.Īnother approach, however, is to listen closely, and take a building-block approach using the most excellent MIDI patterns on the planet, from Twiddly.BITS. It pays to pre-load ones you MIGHT need.ĭrum parts in 80's pop songs were mostly pretty simple, as so many of them were programmed vs. So, dealing strictly with MIDI, I have never found any one source that is good, as the commercial ones all suck and the non-commercial ones don't last long before they're forced to go down for the count. I forget whether they offer MIDI as well, but many songs have multi-track available for low cost, even if the drums are probably all on one track.Īt that point, I can use Melodyne to convert to MIDI, but I'll admit this is much harder with combined drum tracks, if there's a lot going on with tom rolls and the like. Karaoke version is a good site for quality backing tracks - at least, ones they've done in the past 5-6 years or so (their earlier renditions are more MIDI-like). I have been hesitant to respond because I still don't fully understand the context for the O.P.
Sometimes just individual drum tuning made a big difference in nailing the original. I set up separate patches for half-open hi hats as well to get more articulation in the opening and closing hihat. They've come a long way since then, but back then I also did tricks like setting up 2 drum sets and alternating ride cymbal hits so that the ringing overlapped and didn't sound unnatural with different velocities cutting out the volume and things like that. Once you get the whole thing sounding just right, merge them all down to one drum track. Anything loose enough that it shouldn't be quantized at all went on it's own track. That made it really easy to go back and make minor edits to velocities, and do slight time shifts. There are plenty of tricks to drum programming to make it more realistic.Įven if I played multiple drums at the same time (I got good at doing kick, snare and some tom fills all in one take), I would use the split notes feature to put each drum in it's own track. It's way easier to do it in software then fly it into the keyboard. All the way back in the 90s when I was doing a duo with sequences, I did all my own because the ones available were mostly all crap and I found I spent more time trying to fix them than just do it from scratch.
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