Logic Pro X Drummer Tips
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In this video I show you my secrets - my tips and tricks on how to make your drum patterns more interesting, how to improve you drums in logic pro x - but yo. A significant new addition to Logic Pro X is the Drummer tool - a lightweight and intuitive virtual drummer instrument. Here's a collection of tips and tricks I've gathered as I've used the tool in my projects. In Logic Pro, add virtual drummers to a project, choose the drummer, genre, and drum kit, and edit other drum settings. Logic Pro X Drummer Tips And Tricks A significant new addition to Logic Pro X is the Drummer tool - a lightweight and intuitive virtual drummer instrument. Here's a collection of tips and trick.
Live LoopsFor spontaneous composition.
Live Loops is a dynamic way to create and arrange music in real time. Kick off your composition by adding loops, samples, or your recorded performances into a grid of cells. Trigger different cells to play with your ideas without worrying about a timeline or arrangement. Once you find combinations that work well together you can create song sections, then move everything into the Tracks area to continue production and finish your song.
Using Logic X's new Drummer tracks to build drum parts is quick and surprisingly effective. But sometimes you need more pattern variations than Drummer's built-in presets provides, or you might want to hand edit in a custom drum fill or flam.
Remix FX
Bring DJ-style effects and transitions to an individual track or an entire mix with a collection of stutters, echoes, filters, and gating effects.
Logic Remote
Control features like Live Loops, Remix FX, and more from your iPad or iPhone using Multi-Touch gestures.
Novation Launchpad
Live Loops supports Launchpad for a tactile experience. Use an 8x8 grid of colorful and expressive pads to dynamically trigger cells, input notes, adjust mixer levels and more.
Step SequencerPure beat poetry.
Step Sequencer is inspired by classic drum machines and synthesizers. Using the Step Sequence editor, quickly build drum beats, bass lines, and melodic parts — and even automate your favorite plug-ins. Add sophisticated variations to your pattern with a wide range of creative playback behaviors. Use Note Repeat to create rolling steps, Chance to randomize step playback, and Tie Steps Together to create longer notes.
Logic RemoteTouch and flow.
Logic Remote lets you use your iPhone or iPad to control Logic Pro on your Mac. Use Multi-Touch gestures to play software instruments, mix tracks, and control features like Live Loops and Remix FX from anywhere in the room. Swipe and tap to trigger cells in Live Loops. And tilt your iPhone or iPad up and down and use its gyroscope to manipulate filters and repeaters in Remix FX.
NewSequence your beats
Program drum patterns and melodic parts from your iPad or iPhone. Create dynamic rhythmic performances, and automate your plug-ins — all with a quick tap of your finger.
Multi-Touch mixing
Control your mix from wherever you are in the room — whether that’s next to your computer or on the couch — with Multi-Touch faders.
Pair and play
Use a variety of onscreen instruments, such as keyboards, guitars, and drum pads, to play any software instrument in Logic Pro from your iPad or iPhone.
Key commands
Create at the speed of sound with key commands in Logic Remote. Choose from curated commands for popular workflows, or create your own custom set.
Sampler
We redesigned and improved our most popular plug-in — the EXS24 Sampler — and renamed it Sampler. The new single-window design makes it easier to create and edit sampler instruments while remaining backward compatible with all EXS24 files. An expanded synthesis section with sound-shaping controls brings more depth and dynamics to your instruments. The reimagined mapping editor adds powerful, time-saving features that speed the creation of complex instruments. Use the zone waveform editor to make precise edits to sample start/end, loop ranges, and crossfades. And save hours of tedious editing with new drag-and-drop hot zones.
Quick Sampler
Quick Sampler is a fast and easy way to work with a single sample. Drag and drop an audio file from the Finder, Voice Memos, or anywhere within Logic Pro. Or record audio directly into Quick Sampler using a turntable, microphone, musical instrument, or even channel strips playing in Logic Pro. In a few steps, you can transform an individual sample into a fully playable instrument. And with Slice Mode, you can split a single sample into multiple slices — perfect for chopping up vocals or breaking up and resequencing drum loops.
Drum Synth
This powerful but easy-to-use plug-in creates synthesized drum sounds. Choose from a diverse collection of drum models and shape their sound with up to eight simple controls. Drum Synth is also directly integrated into the bottom of the Drum Machine Designer interface — giving you a focused set of sound-shaping controls.
Drum Machine Designer
Redesigned to be more intuitive and integrated, Drum Machine Designer lets you effortlessly build electronic drum kits. Apply individual effects and plug-ins on each discrete drum pad to experiment with sound design and beat-making in new ways. You can also create a unique layered sound by assigning the same trigger note to two different pads. To help you quickly edit sounds, Quick Sampler and Drum Synth are directly integrated into the Drum Machine Designer interface.
DrummerCompose to the beat of a different percussionist.
Using Drummer is like hiring a session drummer or collaborating with a highly skilled beat programmer. Create organic-sounding acoustic drum tracks or electronic beats with the intelligent technology of Drummer. Choose from dozens of drummers who each play in a different musical genre, and direct their performances using simple controls.
Compositions and PerformancesYour studio is always in session.
Logic Pro turns your Mac into a professional recording studio able to handle even the most demanding projects. Capture your compositions and performances — from tracking a live band to a solo software-instrument session — and flow them into your songs.
The ultimate way to record.
Seamless punch recording. Automatic take management. Support for pristine 24-bit/192kHz audio. Logic Pro makes it all easy to do — and undo. You can create projects with up to 1000 stereo or surround audio tracks and up to 1000 software instrument tracks, and run hundreds of plug-ins. It’s all you need to complete any project.
Get the most out of MIDI.
Logic Pro goes beyond the average sequencer with an advanced set of options that let you record, edit, and manipulate MIDI performances. Transform a loose performance into one that locks tight into the groove using region-based parameters for note velocity, timing, and dynamics. Or tighten up your MIDI performances while preserving musical details like flams or chord rolls with Smart Quantize.
Industry-leading tools
As your song develops, Logic Pro helps organize all your ideas and select the best ones. Group related tracks, audition alternate versions, and consolidate multiple tracks. Lightning-fast click-and-drag comping helps you build your best performance from multiple takes.
Smart Tempo
Go off-script and stay on beat with Smart Tempo, a way to effortlessly mix and match music and beats without worrying about the original tempo. Record freely without a click track. And easily combine and edit MIDI and audio tracks — from vinyl samples to live instruments to multitrack audio stems — with constant or variable tempo.
Flex Time
Quickly manipulate the timing and tempo of your recording with Flex Time. Easily move the individual beats within a waveform to correct drum, vocal, guitar, or any other kind of track without slicing and moving regions.
Flex Pitch
Edit the level and pitch of individual notes quickly and easily with Flex Pitch. Roll over any note and all parameters are available for tweaking.
Track Alternatives
Create alternate versions of a track or multiple grouped tracks, and switch between them at any time to audition different options. Create, store, and select from different edits and arrangements of track regions to make it easier to experiment with various creative ideas.
Takes and Quick Swipe Comping
Click and drag to choose the best sections of each take to create a seamless comp, complete with transition-smoothing crossfades. Save multiple comps and switch among them to pick the one you like best.
Track Stacks
Consolidate multiple related tracks into a single track. Use a Summing Stack as a quick way to create submixes. Or create layered and split instruments.
Project Alternatives
Create as many alternate versions of a project as you’d like, each with its own name and settings but sharing the same assets — efficiently saving storage space. Load any version to make changes without compromising your original.
Track Groups and VCA Faders
Manage large mixes with Track Groups and VCA faders. Assign any selection of channels to a track group, then control the levels or other parameters of all tracks in the group from any single channel in the group.
Automation
Easily capture changes to any channel strip or plug-in parameter. Just enable automation, press Play, and make your changes.
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Using Logic X's new Drummer tracks to build drum parts is quick and surprisingly effective. But sometimes you need more pattern variations than Drummer's built-in presets provides, or you might want to hand edit in a custom drum fill or flam. A not so well kept secret about Drummer is that it is in fact still a virtual instrument. When you change drummer track parameters, you're actually altering a generated MIDI pattern that is then triggering one of Logic Pro X new virtual instruments called Drum Kit Designer.
Step 1 - Converting Drummer Regions to MIDI regions
You can easily convert the special Drummer Regions into a regular editable MIDI Region. Control-Click the selected Drummer Region and from the Convert Menu, select 'Convert to MIDI Region.' Now instead of seeing the Drummer Editor, you see the Piano Roll Editor, and can easily draw in drum rolls, fills, flams, move notes, and delete them.
When you do this, keep in mind that it's a 'one-way road.' You can't then pull back the edited pattern into a Drummer Regions and continue to change values in the Drummer Editor. You can right-click the converted MIDI region again and choose 'Convert to Drummer Region' from the Convert Menu, but your edits are not saved, and the region is returned to its original state before it was edited.
Step 2 - Changing Sounds on a Converted MIDI Region
Once you've converted to MIDI, you can however still change the drum sounds themselves by simply opening Drum Kit Designer directly from the channel itself (single click the word 'Drum Kit' on the channel strip). The kit itself can be changed via the Settings menu, and when you click any of the individual drums themselves you can swap them, tune, dampen and adjust their volumes.
Logic Pro X Drummer Triplets
Step 3 - Using external MIDI Drum Loops with Drummer
So now what about using external MIDI patterns with a Drummer Track/Drum Kit Designer? First, let's talk about General MIDI. A while back, the people in charge of MIDI standards decided that it was a good idea if certain sounds were always where you'd expect them to be. For example, in a GM MIDI drum kit, the kick sound is always on MIDI note C1, the snare is D1, closed-hat F#1 and so forth. So if the MIDI pattern you want to use is GM compatible (most of them will be) then you're in luck'¦ simply drag it to the Drummer Track (or the track with Drum Kit Designer on it). Let's do this now by grabbing one of the thousands of MIDI patterns available in Apple's own built-in library'¦ green Apple Loops.
Press the O button on your keyboard to open the Loop Browser, then click on the 'All Drums' category button. Any loop that is green can be dragged directly to a Drummer Track. Drag one over to your Drummer Track now. The kit you've chosen either within the Drummer Editor, or directly from Drum Kit Designer itself remains, and the green loop MIDI pattern plays back using it instead of the kit it was designed for. Keep in mind that not all green Apple Loops will 'line up' correctly. Many Apple Loops use kits that are not entirely GM compatible. You can however move the notes by hand to the appropriate sound.
Step 4 - Tips for Using Third Party MIDI Drum Patterns
If the selection of green Apple Loops isn't enough for you, there are dozens of sources for MIDI drum patterns/loops. Not all are free, but they're out there. Make sure they're in the standard .mid format and you should be good to go. You can literally take these .mid loops and drag them into Logic. Keep in mind that often Logic will open new tracks for these when you do drag them in. Simply move the imported MIDI loop/pattern to the Drummer Track, and delete the extra tracks that may have been created.
Logic Pro X Drum Kits
Thanks for reading, and hope these tips were helpful to you!
Logic Pro X Drummer
