Hi
Our band started playing covers of popular songs. As amateur musicians, we wanted to do it right. A sound engineer strongly recommended adding a rhythm section — bass and drums.
We picked up a bass guitar, and after months of rehearsals, the bass was covered. But drums remained a problem.
I picked a similar drum pattern in EZ Drummer and thought — victory! But our sound engineer corrected me: a cover should sound like the original, including the drum part.
So I separated the song into stems: vocals, bass, guitars, and drums. Then I broke down the drums into individual instruments — kick, snare, hi-hat, tom, crash — and converted them to MIDI in Logic Pro.
But here's the problem: drum parts have way more than 6 instruments. A snare can be a rim shot or a center hit — two different notes. A hi-hat can be open, closed, or half-open — EZ Drummer has almost 20 different articulations just for the hi-hat alone.
I spent about 30 hours manually placing notes in Logic Pro.
The result was great — a live-sounding drum track that passed our sound engineer's strict quality control.
But the idea of spending another 30 hours on the next cover? No thanks.
So I decided to build a tool that extracts all drum notes automatically — with dynamics and micro-timing — to create live-sounding drums. As a software developer by profession, I started experimenting.
And it worked.
My 30 hours of painstaking work — done in 5 minutes.
With results like this, a whole new creative freedom opens up — you can build full instrumental mixes without the endless manual work.