1 Oct
2004
1 Oct
'04
3:26 p.m.
Mark Knecht wrote:
It's an interesting problem. About a year ago I
took some jazz
recordings that I like a lot by Bill Bruford. I love his drumming and
was studying it to learn more about how I might program MIDI drum
patterns. Of course, as you start doing this you want to see how your
patterns mix and mesh with what a real drummer is doing, so I loaded a
few of his tracks into Pro Tools, loaded my MIDI patterns, adjusted
everything latency wise and went to work. The very first thing I found
was that his band's tempo varied almost measure by measure. 102.15,
101.56, 102.4, 101.9, etc. It became very difficult to map my work
against his audio for any extended period of time.
That's always a big issue with using electronic drums, they are *too*
even tempo and mechanical sounding. A good drum machine should allow
for 'humanizing' the tempo, so it varies a little in some non-linear
fashion, as well as the velocities, so the loudness of the transients
aren't always the same. A lot of cheap hardware devices don't do
this... some software ones do (Hydrogen, for example).
Trying to emulate someone like Bruford with a drum machine is going to
be next to impossible. Hell, trying to emulate his style with a human
is next to impossible!
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