Yes separate tracks for at least the major drums
1 Kick
2 Snares
3 Toms
4 Cymbals

The easiest way to give us full control over the drum mix would be to give us MIDI tracks that follow the Real Drums exactly. We could then assign a VST drum synths to control the mix. This would yield a similar benefit as “direct in for guitar” approach but for the drums.

But I am guessing that they do not have that MIDI data since the existing real drums were probably recorded with just analog signal. It would require them to rerecord all Real-drums through an Electric drum set to capture both MIDI and the recorded sound.


Studio One (latest version), Win 11 23H2 , i9 -10940X 3.3 GHz, 32GB Mem, a 4K 40" monitor, PreSonus Studio Live III Console as interface/controller. secondarily test on Reaper, Cakewalk, and S1 on Surface Pro 3 Win 10 (latest versions).