I believe that there many nuances, subtitles, and definitely FEEL/GROOVE that MIDI drums can not fully capture. I guess it is what is more important to the performer; complete control over the drum track or the authenticity of human feel/groove/ nuances. It's nice that some of our keyboards offer us both choices.
I disagree with you on that... Where it comes to high end drum vst's...
I agree with you where it comes to arrangers...
Drums, is still an area where arrangers can make a huge step forward... Some time ago, i posted a video about the drummer in my logic X, it is so flexible, so controllable in real time.. It blows away any audio drum recordings, if such a thing was utilized in the same way inside an arranger.. You have full controll not only over the groove, but also over the swing and how busy and agrressive the drummer is...
In audio drums, even a 32 measures drum is just a loop that repeats itselves...
Not that audio drums are bad, currently they are still the highest quallity available in arrangers. Tough Korg pa4x comes quite close to audya audio drum quallity.. And Roalnd V-drum also is top knotch, yet not available in arrangers. I have some custom drums with roundrobin on the Kronos, which also make any drum track quite dynamic..
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