[brandondrury]

I wasn't sure how I would feel about midi sequencing on songs that are supposed to feel like a real drummer was playing on them (more or less). After a long session of arranging and sequencing today and even more time spent really focusing on the little things (for a totally sequencing newbie) I was amazed at how "life" you can give sequenced drums just by fucking them up.

I have a feeling that I'll eventually develop a method to my madness, but tracks with cheesy VSTi drums suddenly sound non-midi or at least less-midi than they were before applying the"human approach". I couldn't find the randomize feature on Cubase so I just did it by hand. I was very happy with it.

I think in time, it'll become second nature to make a real, natural drum performance relatively quickly. But having said that, it's quite clear that you could get as wild as you wanted to with this. I can totally see what Dach is saying about "perfecting" drum sequences, but randomizing by hand certainly made at least 3,000% improvement.

Brandon