In this metal recording basics video, Mendel discusses advanced metal drum programming, highlighting how the MIDI Logical Editor and quantize panel in Cubase are great for making MIDI drums sound real. Drums are one of the most important parts of heavy metal and, when programming drums for heavy metal, humanizing them with slight randomised changes to the velocity and quantisation of the snare, bass drum, toms and cymbals is vital to producing real sounding drums.