Handy Grooves- ROCK DRUMS

All drummers deviate from mathematically perfect timing, and great drummers manage to do it consistently, making the music feel good.

Be it laying back on 2 & 4 on the snare or slight swinging of the hi-hats, they all help make a human groove feel good in music.

Our MIDI rock drum loops are not mathematically perfect and have that human magic injected into them while keeping a consistent feel.

All of the MIDI loops in our Rock drum pack are clean and loop seamlessly. They have been carefully edited and programmed so that each note sounds as it would in real life if played by a human Rock drummer.

A rhythm played on a percussive instrument can have many dynamic levels within a single bar. Some notes are strong and used to spell out the main rhythm, while others are soft and “ghosted,” providing the much-needed flow. They act as “time glue,” bridging the gaps between accented notes while delivering a subliminal sense of time and groove.

Further, as the velocity of drum playing changes, articulations may also change, so having those at correct levels is essential for natural-sounding grooves.

Our MIDI Rock drum loops have the appropriate microdynamics to make them sound as natural as possible when played back through one of our drum plugins.

A rock-solid, consistent drum groove that fits well into the music is considered to be “in the pocket.” Solid timing, good feel, and microdynamics converge to make these loops sound realistic.

The Rock drum grooves in this pack will deliver “the pocket” with every loop, so all you need to do is to make sure to lock in with them.

Drag and drop one of our rock drum loops into your project and hit the ground running. Tweaking is easy, so making them your own will be that much quicker.

Change articulations, add or mute notes, or move them to other instruments while preserving the grooves’ essence and feel.

Variable hi-hats allow you to easily adjust how open or how close a hi-hat is played. We created handy Grooves ROCK DRUMS midi loops for Handy Drums range of plugins, which accomplish variable hi-hats most practically and efficiently possible.

The hi-hats utilize only two midi notes: one for the edge and the other for the tip sounds, and you can regulate the openness or tightness by employing the CC4. Turn the controller wheel to make the hats go from tightly closed to fully open at will. You may also effortlessly write out the automation.

This approach streamlines something that was previously more of a time sink of assigning notes to each articulation.
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Watch the video to see how easy it is to do this.