I think the biggest problems most people have with the MIDI drums are:

1) Many of the styles use the drum grid instead of "live drums" - result is a quantized, robotic, "dead" drum part. Note: Since they were introduced, all Norton Music styles use the "Live Drums" feature so the music has the "live groove".

2) Bad sounding drums in the little synthesizer chip on your computer's sound card (this is probably the main reason). Most computer sound cards and low-priced software synths simply have cheesy sounding drums. A good sound card or external synth can solve this problem.

I'm not a Real Drum fan, although I commend PG Music for the excellent job they have done with them. But like most pros, I prefer MIDI because they are editable. There are a number of other reasons that apply to the way I make music (YMMV) and I go into greater detail here http://www.nortonmusic.com/midi_vs_loops.html

Thankfully we have both the "Real Drums" and the MIDI drums to choose from, so that musicians with good synthesizers who want to make the drums fit the particular song better or do song specific kicks can use the MIDI drums, and the people who think the RDrums sound great and the rhythms are "good enough" can enjoy the RDrums.

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