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I play guitar, piano and bass? recently got one and started building basic competency skills.
I've been playing for like 15 years, terrible still but that's what makes it fun for me.
I'm interested in recording things but just get too overwhelmed with thinking about using midi drums or synths, the fun part for me is playing over things not necessarily mixing and mastering them. It is something I'm overall interested in.
Have a look at 'addictive drums' it has a bunch of preset midi grooves that you can play along to and mix and match. It's pretty plug and play and may be a comfy way into dipping your toes into midi
that's fine but it also kind of sounds terrible or too "plastic", I'm thinking of buy an electric drum set and learning drums and through learning I'll be able to pick through the samples I like using and in turn that ends up kind of pre-mixing some of my drum recordings (if it gets to that)
I know what you mean though, I'm on Linux so the options for those I'm not sure is the same as windows. addictive drums might just not work
I can offer a little advice on the programmed drums: mess with the velocities of each hit. It'll never quite sound like a real drummer, of course, but it can sound way less mechanical than it does by default. The best thing is that you do not neeed to be orecise about it whatsoever, because being a little random about it is actually more like a real drummer would be. Use them to emphasise and de-emphasise specific notes, or ramp fills up or down. It makes a huge difference
I'm slowly moving to linux. Haven't checked if addictive drums works there yet. I don't know if you just assumed they sound plastic but it actually slaps I think. No one has ever told me my drums sound like shit.
I've used lots of drum VSTs in my experience they take a lot of tweaking to sound right but it might be the tism making me feel that way, also I didn't mean to say they sounded like shit, just not organic.
I get cha. No offence taken.
Cant speak to that specific software, but Linux has tons of FOSS music software. There are several right on Flat Hub even.