I have also found that adding some Percussion on a MIDI track can create a track that can be used alongside a Realdrums track.

All depends upon the sounds you have available from whatever you have to use for the MIDI synth.

The trick is to not try to use this as a substitute for the RealDrummer, as it is unlikely that the sound of Snare or Tom or Kick would match the tonality. Sometimes, you can double the Kick with a MIDI kick patch, get that BIG hardrock bump goin' on down there.

But adding Percussion using MIDI, one can la in quite an assortment selection of Ear Candy.

Congas, Bongos, Timbale, Triangle (Open to Closed triangle can often spice up certain beats), whatever.

Sometimes MIDI cymbals can also be added to play alongside of RealDrums track, and can work because the Realdrummer just might have another cymbal on a stand to hit and it can be blended in, depending of course on a few other parameters.

I find that the easiest way for me to generate MIDI Percussion stuff is to use my MIDI keyboard along with the Instrument Map for the Percussion Bank being used. Find the two or three piano keys that fire the desired Percussion sounds, arm a track for recording MIDI and, after a few practice passes to get the gist of whatever it is that I must do in order to tap along, record to MIDI track.

And, of course, use the Mixer plus all the other tricks learned from mixing to blend it all into a good mixfit.

When Realdrums and Realtracks first came out, many of us noticed how much more realistic the sound of a MIDI track or two becomes when played alongside those Realtracks.


--Mac

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