Make Your MIDI Drums GOOD! (Feat. Scott From @ChernobylAudio666 )

Want to take your drum MIDI to the next level? ME TOO! Let's have a chat with Scott from Chernobyl Studios and see if we can fix that!

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[ChernobylAudio]

Thanks for having me on—was a lot of fun! \m/

[lockedowng]

I've been learning from Scott for years. It's nice to see him over here too.

[StigmatizedProductions]

Great discussion by 2 great content creators/producers! A big bravo to Fluff who helps to spread out this awesome drum programming course that Scott created!

[Bxtothecore]

Fantastic man. Programming drums is easily my weakest area in my own demos and this tutorial killed it with information! AWESOME

[Erneman]

Being able to communicate through multiple instruments to your bandmates, what you think the song should go like, is freaking useful

[DJBuglip]

I've needed this for years. I'm terrible at drums. Thanks Fluff and Scott!

[TheSunMoon]

Just the lesson that I needed. Cheers!

[jaimyyelvingtonmusic]

I learned a few things from this. I'll definitely be picking the class up in the future.

[zac]

It's kind of funny how obvious these things seem after someone tells you. Lost track of how many times I've gone makes sense" watching tutorials like this. Great video!

[gregosborne]

first comment, and I literally just watched his channel on how to set up guitar home recording. Love the show fluff and I been a long time subscriber since 2015. Thanks for helping out someone who never has done home recording and making it easier for someone who doesn't understand how it works and it made my life a lot easier. Thanks for your hard work and dedication towards your channel.

[AlexeySolovievMusic]

Wonderful interview! Scott is a brilliant metal sound producer, got his previous courses "Metal Guitar Mastery" & "Mixing Extreme Metal" on Pro Mix Academy, and these courses helped me to improve my mixing skills and creating a good metal guitar tone a lot. Of course his new course must buy! Also Scott does fantastic metal mixing tutorials on his channel! Thank you so much Ryan for this amazing interview and for promoting Scott's course!

[brianvillage]

I’m a drummer first and when I record I think programming is a chore. I used to record live drums at home but program now because it sounds better. I’m good at it but I always find myself reluctant to start. Plugging in a guitar and bass is always quick AMD easy.

[impetus_aus]

Awesome! I love me a good midi drum video 🤘

[JoelisScp]

aw no green camper mug today lmao. very solid video today.

[jloiben]

I like how Scott thinks he has a say in how long he can keep his beard when the wife has already said hell no

[EasyHeat]

I usually hash out my best take on an E-kit, and then correct any retriggering or derp hits afterwards. That way? I'm not habitually grid locked to some specific click BPM mechanically, and I can allow a sense of natural sway to keep it from sounding overly artificial.

[peehandshihtzu]

Something I've noticed regarding the 127 velocity levels is to get that closing hi-hat 'accent' sound you often times have to go there while all your other drums are lower. This is an awkward way the programmers have chosen to make it expressible as it's a bit misleading that you'd hit the hats harder to get that sound. I also understand it would be hard otherwise considering the unique relationship between sticking and a foot press that particular sound has. There's really no other function like that on a kit. The idea of making a special function in midi just for that one occasion would undoubtedly be a pain to implement. Still the problem as a result is that I often times have to lower the volume on just that one note because to attain it I have to crank it's velocity. It is a super powerful accent in drums though and for my stuff it would lose life without them. Not to compare my midi drums to Neil Peart but think of how different his tracks would be without the closing hi hat accents he uses, it would be a whole different monster. By extension so would my midi drums, those accents make big differences in the way we feel or perceive a given passage. In summary the closing hi hat accent is certainly awkwardly expressed in the midi editors I have used being that it is just attached to the velocity.

I guess the same argument/observation may apply for the cymbal grab function as well where it applies. All in all it seems like just making a separate midi lane for these sounds may be a better idea that way the velocity can be truer to reality. Still that solution would perhaps make it bulky and off putting in other areas, IDK just adding some context.

To address one last thing, I actually like making midi drums, for me it makes the difference between being a practice loop and a song but it is by far the most time consuming part of my writing process and not being a drummer there are definitely some songs and riffs of mine that have gone un-recorded because I just can't find the beat that is in my head within a given grid. This video gives me a bit of food for thought on how to possibly approach those pieces, thanks. :)

[iwiggs]

"Drummers don't have 6 arms?"
*laughs in Danny Carey*

[mathurincoupal-jette]

I dropped a like when he said he was going ZZ Top

[usynthesis]

Problem solved! Get a freaking drummer!!! A good one! At least get a drummer to lay down some midi drums on an electronic kit, and then play with it all you want.