Bob, AD is a very good drum sound source, as you well know!

I have Melodyne Editor and I have in fact once taken a RD and converted it to MIDI. The only editing I did was to find the right AD sound to match the MIDI, i.e. map the drums. The problem was although that the AD MIDI track sounded better IMHO it was the same rhythms as the RD, thus my conclusion was why bother.

There are a lot of free and purchased MIDI drum loops out there. I have purchased all most all of Groovemonkee's loops, http://www.groovemonkee.com/

Although they are called loops they are really just a few measures of drums that you combine into a complete drum track. I use Toontrack's EZ Player Pro for that; http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/EZplayerPro/?utm_source=MSN&utm_medium=PPC&utm_campaign=audio&utm_term=toontrack_ezplayer_pro

EZ Player Pro will follow your DAW, I use Sonar, and you can insert and delete drum parts, yes individual drums or complete kits, as measures until you achieve what you want. You then copy the completed drum part to a MIDI track in your DAW. Of course you can modify the part(s) as needed.

Also don't overlook BiaB's MIDI drum parts. I have used many of those in my compositions.

I hope this helped.

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