Quite often I will simply isolate a clip from the existing drum track and move it around in Sonar.

It's pretty easy to make sophisticated edits in the DAW. Copy/paste is something I use frequently.... The trick is to get them sounding like they were there to start with. You don't want to chop off a cymbal fade or even the ambient verb from a snare hit. It's the little things that make it sound like it was there originally.

It's also really easy in Sonar to drop Jamstix into the mix or the default drum synth and insert a few manual hits..... EQ them properly and they sound exactly like the real track drums.

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