Originally Posted by Notes Norton
Some simple edits if you export your MIDI to a sequencer. (examples are in 4/4 time)

Copy only the snare drum notes, only on the 2s and 4s, paste to another track, and move it to the high timbale. Then reduce the volume and move it a couple of tics ahead of the snare.

It will sound like a rock drummer who hits the rim and head on the backbeats to add more 'crack' sound

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Take the snare (and timbale) and everything else on the 2s and 4s and put them a few tics behind the beat. This makes the lister subsconsciouly wait for them, and it emphasizes the backbeat. Mostly done for rock, funk and blues. In a jazz swing, it's not unusual to push the 2s and 4s ahead a bit.

These two edits can add a lot of life to your song, and you can't do that with real tracks or real drums.

Just a couple of the thousands of edits you can do with MIDI.

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<< "These two edits can add a lot of life to your song, and you can't do that with real tracks or real drums." >>

Sure you can edit RealTracks and RealDrums. In the before and after screen shots below of Bar 4 of a RealDrum - I edited a hit without issue. It's no different to also edit RealTracks.

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