jeanette_c wrote: ↑Tue Jul 27, 2021 8:57 am
That too is an interesting comment. I don't think I wanted to induce more prog, just adhere to a cliche. Perhaps more in the vein of late 70s soundtracks or instrumental arrangements for (the better) James Last, perhaps Richard Kleiderman. I know I was challenged arriving at a good sound, having used a DrumGizmo kit for the first time. I was not ultimately happy with the result. Could you perhaps lay your finger on something really odd in the performance, the playiing style? Usually I'm not that bad, but I know that there's always more to learn. Btw.: the drums aren't programmed.
I guess part of the reason is that Aasimonster2 (the kit you used) isn't really suited for anything other than Death/Black metal
I found the sounds luckluster when I tinkered with it in other contexts, which is why I basically always used another kit instead. I personally use the Muldjord kit pretty much everywhere since it's the first one I liked, at the time, and although it's mostly metal-oriented as well, I found it to be flexible enough for other genres as well (as the folk part in Mary, a song I shared a couple of years ago). A more common choice is the CrocellKit, which is widely considered the most flexible kit available for DrumGizmo: I used it for one song and liked it enough, but I haven't played much with it.
Whatever kit you use, you'll probably want to enable and tinker with the bleed control: I still haven't figured out a way to properly get rid of bleed AND not end up with a bland sound, which is the mean reason why drums in my songs usually "suck" (it's hard to apply the right processing to snare, toms, etc., due to the fact they bleed in other channels of the kit). Considering you have much more expertise in the area, I'm sure you'll succeed where I so far failed