Drum Kit Designer - The Trigger You Didn't Know You Had For Drum Replacement

hey friend chris van der veiver here from wylogicprorules.com the website that helps you get the most you can of apple's logic pro 10. today i want to show you how you can use drum kit designer as a tool for doubling or replacing your existing drum tracks while this is not specific to acoustic or live recorded drums very often these are the types of drums that could use a little help from drum samples first things first i have a drum performance here that we're going to take a listen to and some live recorded drums i've done some eq some compression i've tried to reign in these drums the best i could and i also have two instances of drum kit designer supplementing both the kick drum and the snare so let's take a listen to what i have here cool and let's hear without these two samples in place so let's mute them and take a listen and let's go back and forth so we'll take a listen and then i'll introduce the samples back into the mix cool these samples are not loud in the mix they're quite quiet if you take a look at the mixer you can see the kick drum is like negative 32 the snare is negative 12 quite low but it adds a presence it adds an air and it adds a little more stability to the drum kit in a way that makes the kick and the snare feel a little better in the mix we should even take a listen to where these drums started out at so let's mute our samples select all the drum tracks in the track stack and i'll bypass everything so take a listen to where we started so not too great and then we add all the plugins and we add the samples all right so much farther along than where we started at pretty boomy pretty muddy so how do we get to the point of using drum kit designer as our samples let's take a look at the drum kit designer instances that i have here first i've chosen the studio felt kick drum and i've even included room b in the mix what's great about drum kit designer is we're able to add either leak or the overhead sound of a particular drum or even a room either a which tends to be in stereo or b which tends to be in mono and i chose the more mono signal so the kick drum's coming straight down the center if we take a look at the channel strip here i've used the linear eq to actually roll off quite a bit of the low end because this kick drum has no problem with low end it's more like the top or sticky attack that i want to add and then i've also used the fat effects to add a touch of distortion quite a bit of compression just to stabilize it and then with the snare sample we pop open it's actually a full producer kit if we open drum kit designer i've chosen believe a muted brass yep and i haven't introduced any sort of overhead or room at all but instead just a tiny bit of eq to emphasize the body of the snare drum and also just some compression to bring up some sustain okay let's start pulling apart how you can get to this point with drum kit designer drum replacement is not new to logic it's actually been around i think since logic nine maybe a little earlier but i'm pretty sure it's nine and it's very simple you select the drum that you want to double or replace so in this case i'm gonna pick the snare for now we'll mute this one and we go up to track and go down to replace or double drum kit you can also use the key command command d when we click this logic is going to analyze the transients in the snare track so it's going to look for everywhere there's a drum hit now this is very quick because i've already done this once before but if we zoom in we can see the snare track here right and then if we look down below we have a sampler track where there's a midi note everywhere there's a snare drum hit and we can even choose what kind of instrument we're intending to double or replace and this is important because this will determine what kind of samples are offered to us by this facility so we can choose from the drop-down instrument snare kick tom or other and the trigger note adjusts based on the type of drum that we choose so if we pick kick it's going to be auto but if we double click and see here the kick is on c1 as c1 tends to be the home of any kick drum sample for any drum instrument in logic cool if we choose other the midi notes are not just placed on c1 or where the snare tends to live or the toms instead we get a whole drop down that we can choose from and we can see we have slap at e0 if we take a look c1k you can choose the actual note where you prefer the midi notes to be placed and you can do this for any of the other drums as well if we take a look from there we can also choose the mode either replacement or doubling are you intending to completely replace this drum sound or double i recommend doubling so you can hear the drum sound in relation to the original drum sound that you're planning on either doubling or replacing and then we have the relative threshold right now we can see that logic has done a pretty good job of identifying where the snare drum hits r it's not accidentally considering any bleed on the snare track as an actual snare hit but just like a compressor or gate we can adjust the threshold related to where midi notes are placed so maybe logic is having a hard time identifying the notes either logic is identifying bleed as drum hits that you want so you would close up the threshold you know drag it closer to zero and you can see that we're taking away notes now and if i drag it further to the left it's going to introduce more notes than we want but the threshold allows you to tell logic what's an actual hit that you care about and what is not so we'll set this back to about negative 12. we can also preview our drum sound side by side with the snare drum and you can see here in the library there's a whole host of acoustic snare sounds that we can choose from so let's preview [Music] all right they're pretty usable but i find them to feel a little one-dimensional and that's why i choose to go with drumkit designer instead from here once you have the relative threshold set to where you need it you've chosen your instrument you've chosen doubling or replacement and you feel like cool we've got the midi notes where we need them then you just hit ok and now logic has created a new software instrument track using sampler but we're going to replace sampler and go with drum kit designer and i believe that drum kit designer is a lot more usable in the case of drum sampling so let's open drum kit designer and let's just hear the snare in relation to the original snare [Music] as you can see we only have three snares to choose from and i feel like that's just not going to be good enough so let's go into drum kit down to producer kits and let's choose the unmixed kit great now we have a track stack with all the individual tracks but really we're just concerned with the snare let's open the track stack click on the overhead track and now we can choose a new instance of drum kit designer with all the snares that we might want to use let's hear this side by side with the snare track [Music] great so that's my muted brass that's what i'm gonna stick with and we can even choose between having a leak the overhead track or even a room track in this case i just want to keep things dry but this gives us further tonal shaping for our snare sample to blend into the mix we also have the ability to adjust the velocity of the individual samples themselves so we can see this is pretty quiet the drummer i guess played the snare relatively quiet but i want to bump this up to what i feel would be more usable in the mix i don't want it too loud i don't want it to be at full blast at 127 velocity but i want something a little more assertive so let's pick 68. great and then we can blend this to taste underneath our snare track [Music] and we can even choose do we want the snare bottom track the top track if we were working with the kick do you want the kick in and out sometimes drum kit designer includes like a parallel compression channel do you want to include that there's so much tonal shaping available for this particular snare drum and you know even though i have the sample here we can take a listen in relation to the rest of the mix here [Music] and before and after with the snare in and out and just like that we can quickly double or replace our drum tracks you have a whole variety of drums that you can choose and tune or dampen and once again logic has just about all the tools we need to craft great songs and great mixes and masters so i hope that was helpful for you if it was as always i highly suggest subscribing to the youtube channel why logic pro rules or subscribing on the website itself ylogicprorules.com every week i'm posting new videos new emails and posts to help you get the most you can of apple's logic pro 10 thanks so much

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Length: 10min 19sec (619 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 20 2020