Recovering After the End of a Band

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My band recently broke up. All of the members were really close friends of mine, but we had departed from each other as musicians and we needed something more than we could make as just the four of us. I plan to get a tribute tattoo because they were my first band, but I'm already considering a new band. I go to a performing arts high school, so there's no shortage of musicians, but finding other people who I sync up with creatively and stylistically is a challenge since the players with lots of talent are mostly jazz players who intimidate the crap out of me, and the ones that are in my genre are completely incompetent but think they're the next Rev/Paul Gray/Mitch Lucker/Jeff Loomis. Where's my middle ground? What compromises do I have to make and what kind of people should I avoid altogether?

Nothing on Youtube, for some reason we never ended up making a band channel or having our fans post videos. But there are some demos we did, plus maybe a video or two recorded by a fan from back when we had our old vocalist (he wasn't that great a singer and was too hard to work with). Here's the facebook page Self Sacrifice Facebook
As for my instrument, I played bass, but that's not the only thing I do. Technically, I could be a solo artist if I learned to play drums (I can do keyboards, bass, guitar, and vocals), but I like the community feeling of a band.

I wish you the best in your future endeavors.

I know quite a few people (both guitarists and drummers) who use macbooks/notebooks either to re-sample drums, trigger samples, record & mashup or otherwise play along with their instruments - it's pretty common as far as i can see. (i'm not talking about essentially 'karaoke' singers who use entire backing tracks)