The humanizer function must be one of the most useless inventions in the drumVST-world yet, I must humbly say. Not a lot of this is specific to Superior or whatever DAW you use, it's just some advice that I hope is somewhat helpful. This sort of organic ensemble playing is not easy to duplicate with software.

Drummers can speed up, or slow down, and since drummers are the beat keepers the whole band will do the same. The thing you can't do, though, at least very easily, is replicate the feel of a drummer playing with a band. Either of these will change the feel of the music. For instance, the snare on the two and four might be moved slightly ahead of the beat, or maybe the snare on the two might be while the four is played exactly on the beat. Some of this can be approximated by the randomizing of the MIDI notes, but again, what do drummers actually do? A lot of them will play a little bit before the beat, and not always all the drums. Referring to velocity, it's natural for a drummer to hit the drums harder as the music crescendoes, so you might have more velocity at the chorus and leading back into the '1' of the versus, and then settling into the groove again.Īlso, as you've seen from the video, drummers don't always play exactly on the beat, they can be a little bit off. The main thing is to think like a drummer, which can be difficult if you aren't one. What you would be doing, as you've already said, is drawing in different velocities, as well as adjusting the timing and so forth. Doing this by hand will always yield better results.

On the other hand, though, this is an automatic way of doing something that you can do by hand. Humanize in Logic - MIDI transformation - YouTube This is how Logic approaches it, probably the other major DAW's have a similar automated function that would work for you:

There's any number of ways to go about it.

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