I’m a recent Pro Tools to Logic convert, and I’m amazed almost daily at all this new stuff I was unaware of. “Convert to midi? Really?!” And “Follow?! What??!! Thank you!
I love Drummer so much, and you’re right that it doesn’t get nearly enough credit. Another cool thing... if the full track stack is a bit too daunting from a mixing perspective, there’s an intermediary between the producer kit and the stereo one track version. If you have the regular kit loaded, you can click on drum kit designer and switch it from stereo to multiple output mode. This will add + and - buttons to the bottom of the channel, and when you hit plus, it will start giving you separate tracks that are a bit pre-mixed. For example kick in and out are mixed to one kick, same with snare, overheads and toms are mixed to stereo, and all the elements retain their under the hood processing with compression, eq, reverb, etc... It’s a really great way to dip your toes into mixing drums before graduating to the producer kits, and mixing the producer kits helps prepare you for learning to mix live drums, which is by far the most complicated instrument to mix.
Drummer was honestly in the top 3 reasons I bought a MacBook - needed drummer...needed logic...needed MacBook. Drums are one of the main things that ruin home produced stuff imho when they sound so unrealistic or just looped samples. There’s genius in drummer I think.
Chris ... I've been working with multi output for drummer (4 tracks, covering kick and snare and hi-hat and cymbals and toms, plus summing) - the producer kits that you've introduced to me with this video around 8 minutes in - it blew my mind! This is the 2nd time you've done this for me. You've renovated my understanding of Logic Pro. Thank you so much!
i'm a drum machine fanatic since 1983... i have an Oberheim DMX, a Linn LM-1, a LinnDrum, Linn 9000, Akai MPC60, MPC3000 and more... i love to program them... i also have Superior Drummer and almost all the sound packs, and a DW kit ... Logic's Drummer is the *_FIRST_* technology i've seen that can come up with parts equal to/or better than what i was looking for... i look forward to seeing what my Drummer personalities will come up with... it feels like working with a human, in the sense that it won't always do exactly what you want... but the real excitement IMO is the times it will actually *_IMPROVE_* on what i'm going for... several times i've been left laughing at the "magic"... take time to learn Drummer... experiment with it... you might love it...
I'm a drummer and when I found this option in Logic I was blown away - its really cool the way you can latch to instruments in the mix, swing, change the feel - use the matrix to play soft / hard / complex - its really good! Now I'll aways record my own live drums over but it lets me arrange and make tunes feel way more real!
Love Drummer as well and totally agree that it is one of the most underrated parts of LPX. One thing I started doing was piping the drummers into Ultrabeat instead of Drumkit Designer then started loading my own samples.
Drummer is great. I like to drag the Drummer performance regions after I've tweaked them into it's own MIDI track and then further tweak it (with Producer Kits of course) and then blend the two together with their own processing.
My only request would be for Apple to add some more drummers to this. They did that once with the newer percussion Drummers, so how's about a Jazz drummer? Or a Latin Drummer, or a reggae Drummer. Apple? Or even better to open up the API to third party creators...like they have with Final Cut. That would be awesome (to use a somewhat overfamiliar term!).
A metal drummer style category would be nice - just like you have rock style category and can choose between rock types (punk, Brit pop, hard rock etc.) - the metal style would allow you choose metal styles like thrash, death, power, black (all four would use blast beats and the drummers would have double kick as an option and fast paced kick playing and fills), symphonic (perhaps would use an orchestral kit), brutal/hardcore (like deathcore, metalcore or brutal death, would be able to even use quadruple pedals and be rapid making rapid blast beats), glam (simple but hard), alternative (perhaps using some custom percussion like tambourine), industrial (perhaps may use electronic kits), Gothic, ambient/atmospheric (all three would use roomy and large sounding, atmospheric kits to make it dark and atmospheric), groove (hard hitting beats with a lot of groove), progressive/djent (very fast blast beats and very intricate with lots of double kick and perhaps cymbal muting) doom (very slow,hard hitting beats on the Heavy kit) and, of course classic heavy metal which would just be a heavier and faster rock beat with double bass kicking. It'd be also nice if the drum kit synth allowed us to further customise the setup if the kit, for example, allowing more than one kick drum or different percussion instruments like timpani or cajon to be added to the kit. I would also like to see an option for the drummer to change what beater they use, as that would change the sound of the kit - for example instead of plain old sticks, they could use jazz brushes or timpani mallets or different stick types or just their hands, all of which would affect how the kit sounds (it could be set on automation so the drummer could start off playing with sticks and maybe play the toms with mallets on the choruses and then come back to sticks, then maybe use his bare hands at the end). Similarly to Amp designer, it would also be nice to be able to change how the drums are miced and what microphones are used.
@@RenatoPernett the Singer bit would definitely be amazing. You could write what lyrics you want and set how you want them done - be it spoken, rapped, shouted, sung, screamed, growled, shrieked, whispered etc. You could change the singer's voice - baritone, tenor, soprano etc and how long they hold each note for. You could change singer style too (I.e. a hip hop singer who could sing or rap or shout, or a metal singer who could sing, shout, scream, growl or do vocal effects like pig squeals). It would give way to people who write lyrics but are insecure about their voice, or are not good singers or otherwise don't want to sing.
@@AnkothOfficial exactly! I mean, if we, common sense mortal people, can imagine that, why #apple doesn't make it happen? Got the money, got the mind talented engineers, etc. Are they living in lazytown or what?
@@RenatoPernett I don't think the idea has hit them yet. Or it may also be the case that they fear the elitists who would claim making music like this is "cheating" etc.
Thank you so much for that last little tid bit about expanding and seeing the track stack. im on the bubble. I feel like Logics drummer is my sercret weapon...its like I want to tell people and at the same time I don't because I feel like its too good to be true and I wanna keep it all to myself..but I wont.. my personal favorite trick. I select the drummer track to be the groove track, I click the bass to follow, then I go back into the drummer track and tell the drums to follow the bass.....yes as you probably know. this literally creates a bulletproof rhythm soul. thanks for all your great tips.....#logicforlife
Just dropping in to say thank you. I recently switched to Mac and Logic and your videos have been of immense value to learning new things within Logic!
You are brilliant to discover these things. I find Logic pretty opaque, but the "convert to MIDI" trick alone in this video will give me some more running room.
Great video and clear, concise explanation! I already do all of this, and I fully agree. In my own experience, Drummer sounds as good if not better than recorded drums. I love having the options to really fine-tune drums through midi. It also is great for sparking creativity when you don’t have a preconceived idea of how the drum parts in your tunes should sound.
Heck yeah Jack! Drummer astounds me with it's versatility. I've heard completed tracks where I had to ask, "is this a real drummer, or Logic's drummer?" And the answer is , "nope, just Logic's Drummer." (!!!)
Awesome video! I use drummer a lot, specially when I am creating something to follow my guitar or bass riffs. I usually mix it together with some other drum plugins so I can get that huge metal drum tone.
True, but if that's the case, you run the risk of giving the real drummer you're gonna use demoitis. Depending on the track, if I have a real drummer booked, I'd rather give them a spare demo with just the instrument I wrote the tune on, and the vocal, and let them put their voice to it. But for tracks where it's all me, this is a great time saver.
Not only demos or preproduction. Converting the drummer regions to midi regions you can really edit and perfectionate your patterns. More than just some preprod ideas
first off I want to thank you for the fine tutorials in Logic. you've solved several issues that I've had. Logic's Drummer is very impressive, I was on the verge of leaving Logic all together when I discovered that Logic was having timing errors when recording 8 audio channels of drums simultaneously. I opted to record an E-drum MIDI performance using Logic's Drummer. It turned a demo into a professional recording.
I too love Drummer - I used it to great effect on many tracks. Didn't know about the Producer Kits option though - this will give me even more options :-)
Making drummer a track stack producer kit changes everything fro me. that's exactly what I've been wanting to do! thanks for the awesome video. I agree way underrated. what more could you need really? haha
I had to google this one about the stereo drums to multiple outs (When choosing Drum Kit Designer as an instrument for a channel strip, choose Multi Output. This will give us the ability to send all of the kit’s pieces to individual auxiliary channel strips that are assigned to Drum Kit Designer.) This way here after the fact I can change it.
Awesome videos! What I really wish apple would add is a way to tap in a general beat feel rather than having to audition every drummer and preset to find something like what you're looking for.
Thanks Aaron! You definitely can tap in a general beat using a MIDI controller or with Logic's Musical Typing feature (key command: Command-K). Is that what you're thinking?
Why Logic Pro Rules Not exactly. Thinking something like what addictive drums has where you can input a groove and it will give options that match the feel. Drummer is still great option though considering it's free with logic. It just never sounds exactly like what I heard in my head.
Since the kick and snare are arguably the most responsible for the groove, while the hi hats and cymbals are more responsible for energy, you could just open up a drum kit instrument on a regular midi channel, tap out your groove like you described, and then set Drummer’s follow button to that midi track. Of course, you’d still have to adjust your complexity, toms, cymbals, ghost notes, swing, etc... but the follow button really goes a long way towards giving you custom control over the accent beats.
You are so right! Thank you for this video! The follow is the key. I was trying to use it without follow and it was a nightmare so I gave up on it but after watching your video, I tried the follow me and it is sweet! Thanks!
Drummer is remarkable, ive got a few drum plug ins but find myself coming back to Drummer a lot! Currently looking at beat mapping in Logic which is also very cool and helps with a more natural feel I think. New to the channel thanks for the vids.
You are amazing really the best, I work first back in the 80 with digital performance then open a small comercial studio and began using protools HD last year I have The opportunity to buy an Apple MacBook Pro and fall in love with GarageBand for a production I was making, then I began to see your videos to know how move around, I move to logic version thanks to you I’m so glad I did it I still record on ProTools and everything else in logic wish you the best great job 🤘🏻🤛
Excellent. As someone transitioning from Garageband iOS this is opening a whole new vista of expressivity: thanks! In particular being able to choose which kind of cymbals that blew my mind.
Thanks... to be honest I have often had fellow musicians ask who played drums on my tracks. I play a number of instruments (one being drums) which is a huge advantage in creativity. I love real players, of course, however, there are instances where time and money rule the roost and I am afraid the buying public just don't give a what ever who played drums whether it be a world class cat, or, hopefully my world class fingers lol. It really is amazing and should treated as it's own instrument not unlike when I use Roland TD drums. They are not to replace real drums... they are rather, I feel, an instrument choice. Remember players at one point thought the death of the industry was electric anything. Thanks Chris for another insightful post and I must say I have gleaned many nuggets of goodness from this well informed site! JD
Best Logic Pro channel! Thank you for this stuff man, I have learned so much! I was actually pulling out a multi press to comp the bass track but now, that producer kit, just beautiful man. I had no idea. Logic is awesome👍👌
I love drummer! You barely scratched the surface! I like creating alias tracks from drummer and using those to trigger different MIDI hits and sounds that I can then mix with the drummer kit. For example I'll use drummer to trigger drum sounds from Addictive Drums (I like a lot of it's sounds) and use Drummer more like a sequencer. The beauty of using alias tracks is if I make a change in the original drummer track, it makes the same change in the alias. The alias tracks can also be transposed to MIDI once drummer has laid the groundwork effortlessly!
@@DecontructRecreate It's very easy- What I do is create a new Virtual Instrument track under my Drummer track. I set Addictive Drums as the instrument. I then just option/shift drag the Drummer regions I want down to that track. Addictive Drums (set it to map to Drummer in its settings) will then play whatever Drummer does. You can turn the Drummer track off, or blend it in as you like. I also turn individual AD drums on or off as a track needs- for example maybe I like the snare but turn off the high hat, kick, etc. Aliases work of course with any MIDI instrument or MIDI drum program- I've been using them a lot with the Demo version of Steven Slate Drums- it only gives you one kit to play with, but why not use those sounds as well, as it's a really well recorded kit. Give it a try!
Drummer is amazing. It's easy to create flake instruments that sound good. Drums has always been really difficult. This software is such a game changer. It's a little odd to get used to, cause it doesn't work like normal drum plugins, but it's worth messing with. Even as a drummer, this thing is amazing for getting ideas for drums and even as the drums for a demo. It's also easy to get it to follow the bass, which is so damn awesome haha
I like to do an Alias of the Drummer Regions and put it on a separate track where I have Addictive Drums 2.By muting the Drummer I can use AD2 in GM mapping to a kit of my choice.It updates as I mess around with each Drummer Region. There is SO MUCH choice !
Great stuff Chris. There's a certain amount of guilt about 'replacing' a human being with an AI function in logic but let's be realistic here. How many users of Logic can call upon their drummer to work with them at any hour in the day or night or - more to the point - set up their kit in whatever room they've got available without disturbing the neighbours. The power behind this is just immense. One thing you didn't touch upon (which you explained to me directly a few weeks ago) was the ability to (having selected the producer kit) then go into the mixer and add different processing to each of those element of the kit or its mics.
Exactly! And if someone isn't convinced that Drummer is a worthy replacement, they can always use the Drummer track as a scratch track for whoever is going to play on the recording. Thanks for pointing out the mix possibilities! That was my goal with pointing out how to switch a Drummer's kit to the Producer Kits. But obviously wasn't completely clear.
If you want to put your own samples on the drums instead, you can separate the midi region by pitch and it will create a new track for each piece of the kit. Then you just make each track whatever sample or instrument you like.
Agree. Dummer's AI is a huge game changer. Sometimes I feel like I'm stepping backwards when tracking a real live drummer. With a bit of tweaking, it can sound better and sometimes have a better performance.
Great tutorials! Thank you! When you convert a drum track to midi and make adjustments? If we convert it back to a drum track should those adjustments remain?
Thank you so much for the content and help! can you please tell me how to convert that midi region to Multi output so that i can route them to the mixer for further mixing etc?
A logic bassist to follow your chords and drums would be cool. Maybe even a guitar strummer like the native instruments one. As a plugin itself quite expensive but hey, it's logic and we're accustomed to regularly getting great Plugins more or less for free
I got into computer recording in 1991 with Notator ,an Atari computer and a Kurtzwieil midi keyboard......is Logic the evolution of Notator......cause it waz brilliant
If user experience would be a focus, volume gain directly from clips and regions would have been implemented a long time ago (the inspector way is time consuming)
What a great tutorial for an amazing product. I wish I were better at using this. In particular, I'd love to know an easy way to quickly put a drum track together based on a song that inspires me. Most song writing starts by imitation. Often I'll hear a great song and think id like do something similar. There probably is an easy way to pick any song and try to emulate the drum track?
You can use 3rd party drum programs within Drummer as well, although the sound of the built in kits are pretty much the best I've heard within DAWs. There's stuff that you didn't go into, though. Also, having to choose between the toms and the hi-hat, I'm not sure about. Push/Pull, ghostnotes, fills. I have yet to actually use it in a project, though.
Hey Chris. This is more advanced level. I changed drummer to midi and the hi hat retains it's open or closed status according to drummer session, not the midi notes. So the same midi note will play open or closed hi hat and I'm having trouble changing from closed to open. I tried to change in the drum kit the input mapping from GM to GM + Modwheel controls HH opening level. This helped on some notes but not all when automating the Modwheel. If you know what's going on here, let me know. Thanks!
hi , I did this and changed the drummer in to midi and its great , but my kik and snare are in stereo ,and can't get them to mono ,,can anyone help ,thanks
Thanks great video, can you customize kicks patterns without converting regions to midi , or after converting them to midi can you switch back to the drummer video so automatically adding fills and stuff ?
I firmly believe that so many shun Logic because they think it is a somewhat "better" version of Garage Band. If those people could just let go of that assumption . . . I learned Avid Protools in College, and dealt with it for years. Protools is a money pit. Logic is a gold mine!
Thanks so much for the great Tutorial! You said at the beginnig that Drummer could follow verse and chorus, how do i do that and is it also possible that the drummer follows a lead guitar for example? Cheers
Drummer is an example of Apple doing what it does best but neglects to tell anyone about it. Designing a great user experience is great but they should provide an easily accessible manual or tutorials if you want to dig a little deeper. Same with iPhone and iPad: it used to be fine that they came without a manual because it was so intuitive. Now I miss out on many great features because they added so much but never bothered to tell anyone, so you just have to be lucky and find a video or article (like this great video!) that shows you all the neat stuff...
Your channel is my go-to for Logic. Will Drummer copy a performance/style/beat, or just the tempo? Will it follow a tempo that speeds up or slows down?
Thanks so much Steve! Drummer will follow whatever you throw at it, not just tempo. Of course, it may not exactly nail what you have in mind, which is why it's sometimes necessary to Convert to MIDI. And Drummer will follow tempo changes as well :)
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Drummer follows tempo maps very well IMO. I use it often to make my jazz songs breathe quite like they should. And slowing at Outros-Damn, it's better than most of the pros I work with. Real drummers just NEVER seem to want to slow down wth the song HA HA.....
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I’m a recent Pro Tools to Logic convert, and I’m amazed almost daily at all this new stuff I was unaware of. “Convert to midi? Really?!” And “Follow?! What??!! Thank you!
I love Drummer so much, and you’re right that it doesn’t get nearly enough credit. Another cool thing... if the full track stack is a bit too daunting from a mixing perspective, there’s an intermediary between the producer kit and the stereo one track version. If you have the regular kit loaded, you can click on drum kit designer and switch it from stereo to multiple output mode. This will add + and - buttons to the bottom of the channel, and when you hit plus, it will start giving you separate tracks that are a bit pre-mixed. For example kick in and out are mixed to one kick, same with snare, overheads and toms are mixed to stereo, and all the elements retain their under the hood processing with compression, eq, reverb, etc... It’s a really great way to dip your toes into mixing drums before graduating to the producer kits, and mixing the producer kits helps prepare you for learning to mix live drums, which is by far the most complicated instrument to mix.
Love it! Thanks so much for digging into that Jeff :)
wow thats good to know because sometimes the stereo kit blends better
Drummer was honestly in the top 3 reasons I bought a MacBook - needed drummer...needed logic...needed MacBook. Drums are one of the main things that ruin home produced stuff imho when they sound so unrealistic or just looped samples. There’s genius in drummer I think.
I suck at programming drums..logic DRUMMER changed my life! I love it!
Chris ... I've been working with multi output for drummer (4 tracks, covering kick and snare and hi-hat and cymbals and toms, plus summing) - the producer kits that you've introduced to me with this video around 8 minutes in - it blew my mind! This is the 2nd time you've done this for me. You've renovated my understanding of Logic Pro. Thank you so much!
i'm a drum machine fanatic since 1983... i have an Oberheim DMX, a Linn LM-1, a LinnDrum, Linn 9000, Akai MPC60, MPC3000 and more... i love to program them... i also have Superior Drummer and almost all the sound packs, and a DW kit ... Logic's Drummer is the *_FIRST_* technology i've seen that can come up with parts equal to/or better than what i was looking for... i look forward to seeing what my Drummer personalities will come up with... it feels like working with a human, in the sense that it won't always do exactly what you want... but the real excitement IMO is the times it will actually *_IMPROVE_* on what i'm going for... several times i've been left laughing at the "magic"... take time to learn Drummer... experiment with it... you might love it...
I'm a drummer and when I found this option in Logic I was blown away - its really cool the way you can latch to instruments in the mix, swing, change the feel - use the matrix to play soft / hard / complex - its really good! Now I'll aways record my own live drums over but it lets me arrange and make tunes feel way more real!
Love Drummer as well and totally agree that it is one of the most underrated parts of LPX. One thing I started doing was piping the drummers into Ultrabeat instead of Drumkit Designer then started loading my own samples.
I never knew I could change the drumkit components. That is awesome. Yes, much more depth of control than I thought existed. Very cool.
Drummer is great. I like to drag the Drummer performance regions after I've tweaked them into it's own MIDI track and then further tweak it (with Producer Kits of course) and then blend the two together with their own processing.
My only request would be for Apple to add some more drummers to this. They did that once with the newer percussion Drummers, so how's about a Jazz drummer? Or a Latin Drummer, or a reggae Drummer. Apple? Or even better to open up the API to third party creators...like they have with Final Cut. That would be awesome (to use a somewhat overfamiliar term!).
Yeah! To being able to create our own drummers, rhythms, etc. Also AI bassist, Keyboard player, singer, etc. #apple has the power to do so...
A metal drummer style category would be nice - just like you have rock style category and can choose between rock types (punk, Brit pop, hard rock etc.) - the metal style would allow you choose metal styles like thrash, death, power, black (all four would use blast beats and the drummers would have double kick as an option and fast paced kick playing and fills), symphonic (perhaps would use an orchestral kit), brutal/hardcore (like deathcore, metalcore or brutal death, would be able to even use quadruple pedals and be rapid making rapid blast beats), glam (simple but hard), alternative (perhaps using some custom percussion like tambourine), industrial (perhaps may use electronic kits), Gothic, ambient/atmospheric (all three would use roomy and large sounding, atmospheric kits to make it dark and atmospheric), groove (hard hitting beats with a lot of groove), progressive/djent (very fast blast beats and very intricate with lots of double kick and perhaps cymbal muting) doom (very slow,hard hitting beats on the Heavy kit) and, of course classic heavy metal which would just be a heavier and faster rock beat with double bass kicking.
It'd be also nice if the drum kit synth allowed us to further customise the setup if the kit, for example, allowing more than one kick drum or different percussion instruments like timpani or cajon to be added to the kit. I would also like to see an option for the drummer to change what beater they use, as that would change the sound of the kit - for example instead of plain old sticks, they could use jazz brushes or timpani mallets or different stick types or just their hands, all of which would affect how the kit sounds (it could be set on automation so the drummer could start off playing with sticks and maybe play the toms with mallets on the choruses and then come back to sticks, then maybe use his bare hands at the end).
Similarly to Amp designer, it would also be nice to be able to change how the drums are miced and what microphones are used.
@@RenatoPernett the Singer bit would definitely be amazing. You could write what lyrics you want and set how you want them done - be it spoken, rapped, shouted, sung, screamed, growled, shrieked, whispered etc. You could change the singer's voice - baritone, tenor, soprano etc and how long they hold each note for. You could change singer style too (I.e. a hip hop singer who could sing or rap or shout, or a metal singer who could sing, shout, scream, growl or do vocal effects like pig squeals). It would give way to people who write lyrics but are insecure about their voice, or are not good singers or otherwise don't want to sing.
@@AnkothOfficial exactly! I mean, if we, common sense mortal people, can imagine that, why #apple doesn't make it happen? Got the money, got the mind talented engineers, etc. Are they living in lazytown or what?
@@RenatoPernett I don't think the idea has hit them yet. Or it may also be the case that they fear the elitists who would claim making music like this is "cheating" etc.
Logics drummer has been awesome since day 1 for me ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Great Video 👍
Thank you so much for that last little tid bit about expanding and seeing the track stack. im on the bubble. I feel like Logics drummer is my sercret weapon...its like I want to tell people and at the same time I don't because I feel like its too good to be true and I wanna keep it all to myself..but I wont.. my personal favorite trick. I select the drummer track to be the groove track, I click the bass to follow, then I go back into the drummer track and tell the drums to follow the bass.....yes as you probably know. this literally creates a bulletproof rhythm soul. thanks for all your great tips.....#logicforlife
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Just dropping in to say thank you. I recently switched to Mac and Logic and your videos have been of immense value to learning new things within Logic!
I like it better than just about every other drum instrument I’ve ever used. And the percussionists are great as well.
You are brilliant to discover these things. I find Logic pretty opaque, but the "convert to MIDI" trick alone in this video will give me some more running room.
Spot-on... I have use Drummer on hundreds of tracks. I think it sounds great.
Awsoome videos mate I love the drummer I wish they had a bass guitar that did the same
Super helpful. Didn’t realize that you could go so deep with drummer. Thanks for this video
Great video and clear, concise explanation!
I already do all of this, and I fully agree. In my own experience, Drummer sounds as good if not better than recorded drums. I love having the options to really fine-tune drums through midi. It also is great for sparking creativity when you don’t have a preconceived idea of how the drum parts in your tunes should sound.
Heck yeah Jack! Drummer astounds me with it's versatility. I've heard completed tracks where I had to ask, "is this a real drummer, or Logic's drummer?" And the answer is , "nope, just Logic's Drummer." (!!!)
Awesome video! I use drummer a lot, specially when I am creating something to follow my guitar or bass riffs. I usually mix it together with some other drum plugins so I can get that huge metal drum tone.
It's definitely viable for demos/preproduction.
True, but if that's the case, you run the risk of giving the real drummer you're gonna use demoitis. Depending on the track, if I have a real drummer booked, I'd rather give them a spare demo with just the instrument I wrote the tune on, and the vocal, and let them put their voice to it. But for tracks where it's all me, this is a great time saver.
Not only demos or preproduction. Converting the drummer regions to midi regions you can really edit and perfectionate your patterns. More than just some preprod ideas
first off I want to thank you for the fine tutorials in Logic. you've solved several issues that I've had. Logic's Drummer is very impressive, I was on the verge of leaving Logic all together when I discovered that Logic was having timing errors when recording 8 audio channels of drums simultaneously. I opted to record an E-drum MIDI performance using Logic's Drummer. It turned a demo into a professional recording.
I too love Drummer - I used it to great effect on many tracks. Didn't know about the Producer Kits option though - this will give me even more options :-)
Very powerful…..I’m still learning and getting to grips with drummer. These videos really help.
Wow. Definitely slept on it. Converting to midi, and access to each element to mix accordingly!?! Thank you for this.
Making drummer a track stack producer kit changes everything fro me. that's exactly what I've been wanting to do! thanks for the awesome video. I agree way underrated. what more could you need really? haha
I had to google this one about the stereo drums to multiple outs (When choosing Drum Kit Designer as an instrument for a channel strip, choose Multi Output. This will give us the ability to send all of the kit’s pieces to individual auxiliary channel strips that are assigned to Drum Kit Designer.) This way here after the fact I can change it.
Awesome videos! What I really wish apple would add is a way to tap in a general beat feel rather than having to audition every drummer and preset to find something like what you're looking for.
Thanks Aaron! You definitely can tap in a general beat using a MIDI controller or with Logic's Musical Typing feature (key command: Command-K). Is that what you're thinking?
Why Logic Pro Rules Not exactly. Thinking something like what addictive drums has where you can input a groove and it will give options that match the feel. Drummer is still great option though considering it's free with logic. It just never sounds exactly like what I heard in my head.
Since the kick and snare are arguably the most responsible for the groove, while the hi hats and cymbals are more responsible for energy, you could just open up a drum kit instrument on a regular midi channel, tap out your groove like you described, and then set Drummer’s follow button to that midi track. Of course, you’d still have to adjust your complexity, toms, cymbals, ghost notes, swing, etc... but the follow button really goes a long way towards giving you custom control over the accent beats.
You are so right! Thank you for this video! The follow is the key. I was trying to use it without follow and it was a nightmare so I gave up on it but after watching your video, I tried the follow me and it is sweet! Thanks!
WOOOOOOW didnt know any of those producer kits + options. Game changer. Thank you
Drummer is remarkable, ive got a few drum plug ins but find myself coming back to Drummer a lot! Currently looking at beat mapping in Logic which is also very cool and helps with a more natural feel I think. New to the channel thanks for the vids.
Excited to play around with this!
great tutorial thanks - I like to drag regions into Ad2, works great
Totally agree. I have never seen anything like it and I use it all the time. Got a few new tips form your vid. Thanks so much.
I was unaware of several of these features. Thank you for this video!
I am exploring drummer lately, this is a great video on the engine, thank you.
Love Drummer, use it all the time!
Great video, lots of information neatly presented, thanks!
I love this tutorial. I found it extremely useful. Thanks a mill!
The best kept secret not so secret anymore .....needs massive kudos...nicely done mate! Cheers
You are amazing really the best, I work first back in the 80 with digital performance then open a small comercial studio and began using protools HD last year I have The opportunity to buy an Apple MacBook Pro and fall in love with GarageBand for a production I was making, then I began to see your videos to know how move around, I move to logic version thanks to you I’m so glad I did it I still record on ProTools and everything else in logic wish you the best great job 🤘🏻🤛
Great video! This Drummer feature is really amazing for home studios.
Just when I thought I knew drummer well enough! Thanks so much for this video!🔥
Extremely valuable tips. Thank you so much!
Keep em' videos comin'! Love it when u go in-depth with plugins and tools!
Great! Did not know the depth of it. Will dig in. Please continue that good stuff
Will dude Gunnar, thank you!
Excellent. As someone transitioning from Garageband iOS this is opening a whole new vista of expressivity: thanks! In particular being able to choose which kind of cymbals that blew my mind.
Happy to help Julian! Feel free to drop a line if you're looking for help with a particular topic: whylogicprorules.com/contact/
Great tutorial! Thank you sir 🤘🤘💜💜
Thank you for checking out the channel David!
Thanks... to be honest I have often had fellow musicians ask who played drums on my tracks. I play a number of instruments (one being drums) which is a huge advantage in creativity. I love real players, of course, however, there are instances where time and money rule the roost and I am afraid the buying public just don't give a what ever who played drums whether it be a world class cat, or, hopefully my world class fingers lol.
It really is amazing and should treated as it's own instrument not unlike when I use Roland TD drums. They are not to replace real drums... they are rather, I feel, an instrument choice. Remember players at one point thought the death of the industry was electric anything. Thanks Chris for another insightful post and I must say I have gleaned many nuggets of goodness from this well informed site!
JD
Best Logic Pro channel! Thank you for this stuff man, I have learned so much! I was actually pulling out a multi press to comp the bass track but now, that producer kit, just beautiful man. I had no idea. Logic is awesome👍👌
I love drummer! You barely scratched the surface! I like creating alias tracks from drummer and using those to trigger different MIDI hits and sounds that I can then mix with the drummer kit. For example I'll use drummer to trigger drum sounds from Addictive Drums (I like a lot of it's sounds) and use Drummer more like a sequencer. The beauty of using alias tracks is if I make a change in the original drummer track, it makes the same change in the alias.
The alias tracks can also be transposed to MIDI once drummer has laid the groundwork effortlessly!
Harold McLaughlin that’s sounds extremely interesting! How would I go
about doing that?
@@DecontructRecreate It's very easy- What I do is create a new Virtual Instrument track under my Drummer track. I set Addictive Drums as the instrument. I then just option/shift drag the Drummer regions I want down to that track. Addictive Drums (set it to map to Drummer in its settings) will then play whatever Drummer does. You can turn the Drummer track off, or blend it in as you like. I also turn individual AD drums on or off as a track needs- for example maybe I like the snare but turn off the high hat, kick, etc.
Aliases work of course with any MIDI instrument or MIDI drum program- I've been using them a lot with the Demo version of Steven Slate Drums- it only gives you one kit to play with, but why not use those sounds as well, as it's a really well recorded kit. Give it a try!
Dang.... you did it again. I cant believe this was always under the hood. #genius level teacher
great tutorials over all (length, tonality speech wise, methodology of teaching leads to intuitive learning) !
DUDE! THIS IS BLOWING MY MIND! Thank you for this.
Great tutorials. Thank you for taking the time to do these. Best Logic tutorials I've come across to date: clear, concise, and informative.
Thanks buddy!
God bless you and yours!!
This is absolutely amazing!!!
Drummer is amazing. It's easy to create flake instruments that sound good. Drums has always been really difficult. This software is such a game changer. It's a little odd to get used to, cause it doesn't work like normal drum plugins, but it's worth messing with. Even as a drummer, this thing is amazing for getting ideas for drums and even as the drums for a demo. It's also easy to get it to follow the bass, which is so damn awesome haha
Was it helpful to me? Yes, it was VERY helpful! Thanks for the time you took to do this wee tutorial. :)
Excellent vid. The best one I'v seen on the topic
I like to do an Alias of the Drummer Regions and put it on a separate track where I have Addictive Drums 2.By muting the Drummer I can use AD2 in GM mapping to a kit of my choice.It updates as I mess around with each Drummer Region.
There is SO MUCH choice !
Oh my god, I totally didn't know you can convert the logic drummer track to midi!! I thought I was just stuck with it... I am mindblown
this is super useful!! thanks! i just bought XO before i see this video
Great stuff Chris. There's a certain amount of guilt about 'replacing' a human being with an AI function in logic but let's be realistic here. How many users of Logic can call upon their drummer to work with them at any hour in the day or night or - more to the point - set up their kit in whatever room they've got available without disturbing the neighbours. The power behind this is just immense. One thing you didn't touch upon (which you explained to me directly a few weeks ago) was the ability to (having selected the producer kit) then go into the mixer and add different processing to each of those element of the kit or its mics.
Exactly! And if someone isn't convinced that Drummer is a worthy replacement, they can always use the Drummer track as a scratch track for whoever is going to play on the recording.
Thanks for pointing out the mix possibilities! That was my goal with pointing out how to switch a Drummer's kit to the Producer Kits. But obviously wasn't completely clear.
Amazing, You are one of the very best! Thank you so much!!
If you want to put your own samples on the drums instead, you can separate the midi region by pitch and it will create a new track for each piece of the kit. Then you just make each track whatever sample or instrument you like.
Great video! Need to learn more about all these neat tricks in Logic. Got yourself a new subscriber!
Awesome! Thanks for subscribing Sean :)
Agree. Dummer's AI is a huge game changer. Sometimes I feel like I'm stepping backwards when tracking a real live drummer. With a bit of tweaking, it can sound better and sometimes have a better performance.
Thank you man, keep making amazing content!!!!!
Once again- you hit it out of the park.
Great tutorials! Thank you! When you convert a drum track to midi and make adjustments? If we convert it back to a drum track should those adjustments remain?
Wow! Didn't know it was so deep & tweakable. Thanks for this.
No prob Chaplin, thanks for checking out the channel!
Thank you so much for the content and help! can you please tell me how to convert that midi region to Multi output so that i can route them to the mixer for further mixing etc?
Thanks for sharing will watch more ...
Wow! I had no idea you could change drummer to MIDI. Game changer!
I agree that Drummer is not heralded enough. It is an awesome plugin.
Great insight in the drummer app in logic
Love this video and love logic. Thanks I've subbed
A logic bassist to follow your chords and drums would be cool. Maybe even a guitar strummer like the native instruments one. As a plugin itself quite expensive but hey, it's logic and we're accustomed to regularly getting great Plugins more or less for free
I didn't know you could convert to midi, that is key!
I got into computer recording in 1991 with Notator ,an Atari computer and a Kurtzwieil midi keyboard......is Logic the evolution of Notator......cause it waz brilliant
Yes it is. And the current version is like the Starship Enterprise compared to Notator being a bi-plane.
Apparently you can actually click keep kit when changing drummers, then use a 3rd party drum plugin like battery, maschine, etc...
If user experience would be a focus, volume gain directly from clips and regions would have been implemented a long time ago (the inspector way is time consuming)
Please do a Vid. How to Use Apples Outdated Midi Environment, to have multiple midi controllers for multitrack instruments.
What a great tutorial for an amazing product. I wish I were better at using this. In particular, I'd love to know an easy way to quickly put a drum track together based on a song that inspires me. Most song writing starts by imitation. Often I'll hear a great song and think id like do something similar. There probably is an easy way to pick any song and try to emulate the drum track?
You can use 3rd party drum programs within Drummer as well, although the sound of the built in kits are pretty much the best I've heard within DAWs. There's stuff that you didn't go into, though. Also, having to choose between the toms and the hi-hat, I'm not sure about. Push/Pull, ghostnotes, fills. I have yet to actually use it in a project, though.
Very true! I'll add these notes to my growing list of things to cover for the channel :)
Hey Chris. This is more advanced level. I changed drummer to midi and the hi hat retains it's open or closed status according to drummer session, not the midi notes. So the same midi note will play open or closed hi hat and I'm having trouble changing from closed to open. I tried to change in the drum kit the input mapping from GM to GM + Modwheel controls HH opening level. This helped on some notes but not all when automating the Modwheel. If you know what's going on here, let me know. Thanks!
hi , I did this and changed the drummer in to midi and its great , but my kik and snare are in stereo ,and can't get them to mono ,,can anyone help ,thanks
Thanks great video, can you customize kicks patterns without converting regions to midi , or after converting them to midi can you switch back to the drummer video so automatically adding fills and stuff ?
Awesome video. I’m glad I found you.
Thanks so much!
Amazing content thanks so much!
Thank You !!! The Drummer rules. I Know !!!
Is being able to follow the entire drum bus available in 10.4.4?
I firmly believe that so many shun Logic because they think it is a somewhat "better" version of Garage Band. If those people could just let go of that assumption . . . I learned Avid Protools in College, and dealt with it for years. Protools is a money pit. Logic is a gold mine!
Thanks for sharing these hidden features!
for drum rolls and works great
Thanks so much for the great Tutorial! You said at the beginnig that Drummer could follow verse and chorus, how do i do that and is it also possible that the drummer follows a lead guitar for example? Cheers
Drummer is an example of Apple doing what it does best but neglects to tell anyone about it. Designing a great user experience is great but they should provide an easily accessible manual or tutorials if you want to dig a little deeper. Same with iPhone and iPad: it used to be fine that they came without a manual because it was so intuitive. Now I miss out on many great features because they added so much but never bothered to tell anyone, so you just have to be lucky and find a video or article (like this great video!) that shows you all the neat stuff...
Your channel is my go-to for Logic. Will Drummer copy a performance/style/beat, or just the tempo? Will it follow a tempo that speeds up or slows down?
Thanks so much Steve! Drummer will follow whatever you throw at it, not just tempo. Of course, it may not exactly nail what you have in mind, which is why it's sometimes necessary to Convert to MIDI. And Drummer will follow tempo changes as well :)
Drummer follows tempo maps very well IMO. I use it often to make my jazz songs breathe quite like they should. And slowing at Outros-Damn, it's better than most of the pros I work with. Real drummers just NEVER seem to want to slow down wth the song HA HA.....
Thank you. Whats the difference between Room A and B on the Producer Kit?
Good tutorial but the words " you don't need a band anymore" that hurts my bass player feelings.
That's because you are a bass players...
Alejandro Moro I’m a most shit player and I’ve never been more excited about building a band!
@@SpinSurgery good on ya mate
@@alejandromoro But a band sure needs a good bass player and so does Logic X, IMO....Those whack bass Apple loops suck horribly?Lol
@@4iamu i totally agree