[drummer3]

Tracks with heavy reverb and such don’t do as well in Tracker.  As mentioned, drier is better.  Multi-track drums are best.  Also, I have found that if the floor toms are pitched so low that they almost sound like the kick drum, Tracker might guess wrong.  Sometimes cymbals and open hats get interpreted for each other.  But with the tools available (velocity filter, % of likelihood of “x” drum hits, etc.) you can get it to sort things out.  For me, the learning curve was steep, just learning what the boxes and menus did, and that you could grab the little velocity vertical bars, etc.  I was pleasantly surprised how much Tracker gets right in the first place, though, and once I got the hang of things, using it became easier.  (Still learning.)  Even fast, busy patterns, Tracker sorts out fairly well.

So if you have nice clean drums, or close to it, you should have good results.

And if you play drums for real, you pretty much know where the hits you hear should go anyway, so you can adjust things without too much fuss.

I’ve gotten some cool patterns out of Tracker misinterpreting here and there, or maybe it was my ineptitude in filtering, but, hey, either way, there you go!

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