#Logic pro x drummer how to#

Recently I moved to Logic Pro X, and decided to start off with Logic drum sounds to see what I thought of them, with the idea that once I tried it out, I would probably switch to Slate, expecting the sounds to be superior. I have had Slate Drums for a while, and it was the tool I was using when I was in Pro Tools. And of course it's dead simple to tweek down the road when you start filling in other tracks. With drummer, I can get a drum track I'm satisfied with in 15 minutes. Literally kick here, snare there, it took hours. The reason it is so much better for me was because I used to build the drums manually using midi. That's only if the drummer doesn't already place a fill where I want it (which it sometimes does). Then of course adjust the slider to your taste. As far as fills, I don't know if there is a better way, but I will add a drum region that is 2 or 4 (however long you want the fill to be), then grab the fills knob and turn it all the way up. I especially love the follow section, if I have a solid bass line down, I will tell the drums to follow the bass, and it does a great job most of the time. Obviously play around with the various sliders. Then I will add the drummer section by section (verse/bridge/chorus). I'm still getting the hang of it, but right now I record some basic tracks (guitar, bass) with a click. If I'm going to do a deep dive on one of these I want to make the right choice early. I guess it's like a football team that can't decide on a quarterback.

#Logic pro x drummer how to#

So I'm learning how to add that spice within EZD and sometimes getting where I need to go more quickly. Many times I go to EZD and find something that works, but it sounds generic and needs some spice. But the times that I DON'T find the perfect groove right away, I get frustrated with the cute interface and non-descriptive names of the grooves in Drummer. Sometimes using Drummer I find exactly what I'm looking for very quickly, and I can get to work on the other parts faster. My only issue is that I waste a bunch of time playing with both of them for each song that I do. THEN AGAIN, EZD has the awesome built-in mixer, which makes it easy to play with levels across the kit while using just a Stereo track, and they have all those different vibes/effects you can add to totally change your sound without losing all your settings a la Drummer.

THEN AGAIN, you can pull grooves from Drummer into a MIDI track and get trigger the great sounds from EZD with the cooler ghost note-heavy grooves from Drummer (though Hi Hats don't track all that well).

You can add elements to the groove in a very musical way, change the power hand, etc. I learned today how easy it is to pull a basic groove up and then modify it right in the EZD interface without having to do piano roll editing. HOWEVER, with EZD you have the 'Tap to Find' feature. Once you dig into various features like changing out individual drums, using multi-channel kits, dragging grooves into your tracks, and all that, you find features that are really amazing.Р”Р‡or instance, did you know that if you name your arrangement tracks in the conventional sense, Drummer will take cues from those names and change its parts accordingly? So score a big one for Drummer. Ha! This is exactly why I started the thread.