If you turn Vol < Vel knob to 100% in Simpler which is situated next to the volume knob while inputting midi with 100 velocity, then both audio and midi will sound and visualize equally.

wasted 7 mins on this

i use to swear by working in purely audio for drums because i thought it sounded better, until i realized i can just turn up the gain on the midi, and it sounds exactly the same. now my workflow is like 20x faster

Honestly I do my drums in audio because I like to see the wave form of them, no other reason.

just so u know ... don't wanna start the war or debate here ... but all the software sounds the same ... if you do the classic phase cancelation test ... BUT ... as soon as you start using more channels , and thing get more intensive ... each software treats differently the summing process ... Ableton start to loose punch and depth until you export the master ... have spent hours trying to make it sound right ... and then when exported the master sounded ok ... thats because primary focus for Ableton is stability ... it was created for LIVE use ... not mixing ... I think is even written in the manual

Drums always in MIDI so you can easily change the sample later on. The knock depends on your processing, definitely not on the fact if its audio or MIDI.

the difference is null if u know what ur doing. i go back and forth between audio and midi it just depends on the song and how i’m feeling that day

You can normalize the sample volume in midi, then ist having the same loudness...

Drums in Audio for me. If i run drums in MIDI, my urge to switch samples out over and over is too strong.

Before watching ill say wav is better

Midi using a drum rack for with all my samples for the pattern. The output is routed individually to audio tracks so I can easily mix all elements individually without having all of it in drum racks.

That fact people debate about this is so dumb.

Hey man you’re awesome! You always answer the questions that no one seems to answer. Thanks for your contributions to the producer community.

I have come back to this upload because I used to always use audio when creating my drums, but for a year I instead used midi.

Yo those default fades. When I saw it I was like yes it makes perfect sense! But never thought about it before!

Great video as always decap 🔥

thanks for clearing that up!

Decap got this grin on his face everytime he bouta drop some knowledge 🤣

I like drums in audio because its easier for me to just throw stuff in & create grooves with the percussion, but midi makes it way easier to switch out samples while keeping the patterns in place. You can always adjust volume for any of the sounds though so in terms of volume it doesn’t matter if you use audio or midi. Just my opinion on this

Thanks for clearing that up. Its what I always thought. Its the same sample being triggered in a different way, but so much easier to manage from drum rack