Hi everyone
I know many mixers here - amateurs as well as pros - receive sometimes midi drums to mix. I myself used to program drums for my own projects and I've always took care of doing something really realistic, on both artistic (creative and interesting parts) and technical (velocities, realistic timing placements) sides. So I'm always surprised that many bands don't care about that and when I receive midi drum tracks, 90% are very robotic and not realistic even when the project (clients and music) need something very natural.
So I wonder if, in your opinion, it's up to me to fix the tracks as the mixer in order to get a better product at the end or if I have to work with them as they are and not care about the result. After all, if the client provides bad programmings, then I assume they want bad results? I'm not talking about being extra paid to fix the things of course. What are your usual ways of dealing with this?
I know many mixers here - amateurs as well as pros - receive sometimes midi drums to mix. I myself used to program drums for my own projects and I've always took care of doing something really realistic, on both artistic (creative and interesting parts) and technical (velocities, realistic timing placements) sides. So I'm always surprised that many bands don't care about that and when I receive midi drum tracks, 90% are very robotic and not realistic even when the project (clients and music) need something very natural.
So I wonder if, in your opinion, it's up to me to fix the tracks as the mixer in order to get a better product at the end or if I have to work with them as they are and not care about the result. After all, if the client provides bad programmings, then I assume they want bad results? I'm not talking about being extra paid to fix the things of course. What are your usual ways of dealing with this?