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Originally Posted by Produceher
Yeah. Some songs and parts work fine with machines. And if the song is meant to work that way, that's great. Listen to all the R&B using fake acoustic guitar. They make it work. But they don't try to make it sound real. They make it a totally different thing. Which is what those 80's groups did. Mutt Lange was not shooting for realistic. It's when you want to make it sound like a kit that you will easily fall short.
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That is the bottom line Kenny...and that is why none of it matters if your goal is always the song vision. Sometimes sampled quantized drum is the perfect sound and perfect feel...
Stevie Wonder...one of my favorite musician / producers (crappy tennis player though) is a constant inspiration and reminder of making a synth work for what it is. Steve never tried to get a synth to sound acoustic..he just used the natural energy of the sounds to gain his ground with.
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Replacing people in music is bad. Just ask a robot.
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Using drum replacement software, drum machines etc is not replacing people (if that is what you meant). People still have to write the parts and or play them. It just need to be understood what it is and accepted for what it is not.
It's not 'live' recorded drums...it is something else. And it works when it works.
I am grateful for samples and grateful for great drummers...and at one point I needed them both at the same time.
Respect...