[Molitoth]

So basically you can use ToonTracks "EZ Drummer" to map out the drum beats of your creation. Once you get those into MIDI format, you can then open them within Toontracks "Superior Drummer" and mix them better than any real drum you could possibly mix. It's becoming quite standard as real studio's close down across the country that drums are being manipulated within Superior Drummer/Drumagog/Slate/etc. The technology is just too good.

Of course if you only use the Preset that you start out with, the drums are going to sound fake... but within Superior Drummer you can adjust the bleed from every single simulated mic in order to create a realistic sounding room presence. It's quite phenomenal.


Mapping MIDI beats is very time consuming, and if you are getting technical with rolls and fills, a total pain in the ass.

The way I do drums is to record them live in my home studio and then use Toontracks software "Drum Tracker" to turn those real recordings into MIDI beats. Then I can manipulate the tone from there.
Drumtracker is not perfect, you still have to do some manual labor of beat detection, but it will shorten the task quite a bit.