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Solidrock, what we have here is a failure to communicate. This is an internet forum, if we were sitting down in front of a DAW with a couple of beers we would figure this out in like a minute.

Beer is the great equalizer, you know? A couple of beers and we'd be jammin baby, and who cares about this midi/audio crap.

Midi is midi. You already have that with any midi sampler you can name. Why do you care about having single hits from a RD file when there's gazillions of them all over the internet not to mention all the killer kits in all the different drum software like Jamstix, EZDrums, Steve Slate, all those. That's what midi drums are, single drum hits. If anything the very clean individual hits in those drum programs are cleaner than trying to extract single hits from a RD file.

Think of it this way. You're a southern boy I'm sure you like the Allmans. Play Elizabeth Reed and think wow I would love to have that kick from that recording. Even if you had access to that drum track from the original record, how would you extract the kick?

Please think about that a minute. You're sitting in Greg's studio at his home, he has his masters and he loads up just the drum track from ER. How would you extract just the kick? Or the high hat, or the snare. That's what a RD track is, you're asking to just extract a hit from an already recorded full drum track. Why bother with that when there's tons of hits from every drum kit ever used in the history of recorded music as a midi file.

RD's are audio, not midi.

Now the question is ok, why not record the full RD kit using 8 tracks? Great how do you get acceptable separation so you can use the individual hits that are clean without cymbal or snare or kick bleed through in the mic? Yes, you can get it sort of clean but not clean enough to be able to use that snare hit for example in an entirely different song. There's going to bleed through so the rhythm and style being used in that track is going to be in your new song and you don't want to hear that, all you wanted was just that snare hit. I'll admit while I'm fairly experienced with this stuff, I'm certainly not a pro recording engineer but I seriously doubt you can record a full drum performance like that Neil Peart solo I posted and after the fact be able to extract individual parts without still hearing his solo in the background.

This is why I posted my mantra you seem to take exception to.

I'm not saying Real Drums are the be all end all. Hell no, that's why I have Jamstix plus different sequencers plus Melodyne plus several high end keyboards that can all create pretty solid midi drum tracks. I mix and match midi and audio parts all the time.

Midi is not audio. You can do anything you want with midi but not with audio. Audio is limited, once you've recorded something as audio what are your options to change it without turning yourself into a real wizard?

I'm dyin here, it's hot and humid on the beach today. Time for another beer, want one?

Peace bro,

Bob