I had DFH for a very long time before I went to Superior Drummer 3. It’s so easy to immediately get a good metal or otherwise punchy drum track with that.
Sometimes I get lost and just rely on the preset MIDI packs but now I’ve got two strategies to make something good.
First thing I do is to just start beatboxing all the time during the day and record what sounds cool. You can much more easily get a nice rhythmic syncopation and stuff messing around in your free time than you ever could staring at a screen trying to think of one. I build up my own MIDI library of sorts to lay on specific riffs and modify from there. This also is good for building a Lego set of fills. Downside is you look like an idiot and feel embarrassed by yourself the first week or two.
