And Jose... You need to work with better drummers! I don't know many that will put a crash in the middle of a verse, especially when playing quiet sidestick beat..

The issue isn't really whether there are pickups or not. The issue is that they are pre-programmed at four or eight bar intervals. Whether the music follows this or not. Get off of that structure, and now the drummer is playing pickups at REALLY wrong places....

I am surprised that, after Ketron went to all the trouble to develop an AI that is supposed to figure out what you are doing from what YOU play, they then go ahead and record drum loops that do stuff that doesn't listen to you at all!