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Thank you for the amazing question! Yes the note of the drum matters, especially in hip hop or with electronic drums. In fact a lot of mixing engineers retune drums that producers send them haha basically you’re trying to make sure your kick (or other drum samples like snare/toms) hit the same as your root note. Example: if your sample is in A minor, your kick should be as close to A on the low end peaks as possible. Put a spectrum analyzer on the drum sound and you can see where the notes are peeking up at. Most analyzers (including abletons) will let you see what note that is if you hover the mouse over the peak. Then you can see if you pitch the drum up or down to reach the note you want. Hope this helps!

Absolutely! Do you have something specific you’d like me to make a video on?

Yes so personally I produce the drums in a single channel like this tutorial. Then I make several different channels each running instances of the Vst, one kick, one snare, one toms, one cymbals. This way I have more mixing control and options with other plugins in each piece of the kit. Although studio drummer does allow you to mix them individually in the Vst, I just find it somewhat limiting since I can’t use other mixing plugins I prefer inside of studio drummer.

Thank you man I appreciate that!!

Thank you! Yes the sampling used in drum VSTs are far more in depth. For example, when you change velocity on a snare in SD it actually changes the recorded sample to a snare that was recorded hitting softly. Where as abletons drum rack only changes the actual volume of the sample loaded in. Having the samples change with velocity brings a far more realistic sound!

Although the drums you get from Ableton's "Drum Booth" pack from the website is a multisampled drum kit iirc

@@SpiralFlip yes they sound quite good for metal especially the studio kit I've been trying it today with great results. Just be sure to add a healthy dose of compression of course.

Thank you! Once you start you'll never get rid of the drum bug huh? Haha but that's awesome, Alesis makes good gear. You won't need a "midi interface" because the Komplete audio 6 is an audio interface that supports 5 pin midi. Midi is a language, and can be transmitted through usb (like youre doing) or the old school 1980s 5 pin Midi cable. The audio interface will just upgrade your audio quality to your speakers so you dont rely on your computers stock audio interface. If you only want audio from Komplete you can midi your drums into that through your daw and record the midi right in. Or you can use your electronic drum "brain" to run audio into your audio interface and record in that way. No "right" way, just preferred! I prefer midi because unlike audio I can edit and time shift later :)

I am def very dramatic xD couldn't help but laugh at myself after the fact!

Thank you so much :)

Fantastic question! Majority of the time, yes I would change the drums with the songs section. That way it helps separate the phrases and add diversity. I'll also add fills before the section changes to help with anticipating the phrase change

@@innersightrecords okay thanks just needed some tips from a real drummer since I'm going to start making hip hop beats for rappers. I'm good with the synth side of things with harmony and melody and music theory, just percussion was not one of my strong points.