#30 - Drum Machine Designer - Logic's Ultimate Drum Machine (Newbie to Ninja - Beginner's Guide)

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Welcome to day 30 of "Newbie to Ninja” here on Why Logic Pro Rules! This series will be dropping daily (Mondays - Fridays) for the next few weeks. If you’re brand new to Logic Pro, this series will help you go from feeling like a beginner to complete comfort in Apple’s amazing DAW.
Drum Machine Designer is Logic's magnificent drum machine "meta instrument." Easily chop up a loop and place it across DMD's drum pads. Or load multiple samples into DMD. Either way, Drum Machine Designer is awesome.
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[@Shaolin_prince]

Bro I am never one to comment on anything but my goodness this one video just taught me 20 things I’ve been trying to learn for years. Bravo for cutting right to the chase. Staying on the topic and also providing insane value. I’m super excited to start creating with this new found knowledge! Hats off to you good sir 🧢

[@Rio-uv1gs]

Such a great channel..Thanks for all that you provide.

[@mingusx3440]

Man, your channel has helped me so much. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

[@djerikfox]

..logic has so many amazing features..tried cubase 12 and st1 , also ableton, but omg, logic x just WORKS great! amazing workflow so intuitive..and auto sampler, wow thats amazing too...respect Apple....

[@CrackerJoe1231]

Blown away, love the the depth definitely will be checking out the rest!

[@StefanWoldekidanKunskapsskolan]

Wow! Just wow! So much useful info in this clip! Thank you!

[@griiseknoen]

Very helpful. Thanks!

[@hadyanmhd]

you are simply awesome brother.

[@francissreckofabian01]

Very helpful. Thank you.

[@deanforeman2585]

Just stumbled across this series, the best I've ever seen , much love 😊

[@ChathumDulara]

Super important stuff. Tysm ❤

[@raphpitts]

Brilliant help, thank you! Learnt so much from that

[@Ak.studio58]

Thx man it’s good video

[@liquidsolids9415]

Great tutorial! I usually use Drummer but it’s great to see how Drum Machine Designer works. Thank you!

[@elhanantwito8843]

תודה! Thanks!

[@Lematidas]

Thank you very much!

[@elsantoproductora]

I can't wait to test the Ipad version. Thanks for the video!

[@Sahil07]

Excellent. Such a useful video. Thanks

[@vladimirciboci1485]

thank you Sensei

[@bryanciceron5219]

You deserves billions of followers man. Thank you for this Video man!!!!

[@AbdiPianoChannel]

you are the man. Thanks

[@ScottDMoore]

That's more than I need in a ....... Damn! Well done sir.

[@DodaGarcia]

That is quite amazing, I had no idea Drum Machine Designer was so powerful.

[@johnviera3884]

at 13:26 that’s a game changer

[@davidpurple3698]

Thanks a lot for the effort. Think you should mention the Output in DMD - how to get the exact key you want and also touch upon the Group function of the kits.

[@masbass1011]

What?!😵‍💫 you can do that. where do i find more on that?

[@jamcouch2570]

I’m still amazed at the functionality of newer daws. I used to use cubase five, sound forge, recycle just to split up beats. It’s flipping amazing.

[@songbeater3796]

Nice

[@See_Carter_Run]

Man you could easily teach a college level course on music production with logic. And it would be a legit class too. Good Shit bro.

[@accentontheoff]

How does one add Logic Drummer’s acoustic drum elements - say a kick drum - to Drum designer. Fantastic tutorial, by the way.

[@melodyfarm]

thank you!!! how can i insirt a midi plug in in a channel strip of a DMD... it´s not there? thank you

[@Jonamaldo]

So, I figured it out after few minutes of exploring: You forgot to mention in the Intro that this tutorial is applicable to MIDI tracks only controlled with External Midi Device. The software provides a totally different features and behaves differently when you are working with other type of tracks.

[@jamesmuniz99]

Any reason why step sequencer wouldn’t work for me. It’s dark on the tab won’t let me click it

[@AndrewLeSynt]

subbed

[@westwalnutrecords]

If they had AI in this drum machine like algonaut atlas..... It would be amazing. Loading random sounds is such a creative process

[@norboru7204]

why am I laughing so much at 8:00 LOL

[@Jonamaldo]

Key Command Y doesn't work...had to do it manually, but from that point on the video, nothing matches on my end. Can somebody help please?

[@AndrewLeSynt]

Logic is the best for me ❤😂

[@Jonamaldo]

Got lost on 2:25 what's the Musical Typing?

[@JeffyG]

I love DMD. When it first came out, I switched from NI Battery and haven’t looked back. A lot of new drum sample players look cool, but they’re limited to 8 lanes or 16 at best (meaning you need multiple instances). One issue I have is not really DMD, but managing patterns. The patterns in Step Editor are not the same as patterns in the loop browser. It seems Logic has at least 2 different, yet incompatible, methods for patterns. And while I prefer working with pattern regions, there’s limited capabilities - like no cut, paste, duplicate. Ultimately, I end up with my patterns in midi / piano roll Step Editor, but no single way on managing beat / patterns.

[@mohanshiva_musical]

How to convert this drum sample to wave tracks in logic itaelf for mixing

[@uoszl9999]

DMD😊

[@Jonamaldo]

I don't know what's the "inspector"...

[@diggidydamndave]

I only started using DMD a few days ago, based on a Logic Loop that I liked... spent these few days messing around with it, but never fully understood this meta-plugin's capabilities until watching this video. Mind 🤯. Quick question: I have a track onto which I pulled a yellow Logic drummer loop. I created 5 different variations of this drummer loop on the same track. Would I be able to take these 5 variations, pull them into DMD, and have them all split into separate tracks (for ex: for mixing purposes, where I can send the individual drum parts to a mixing engineer for better mixing)...?

[@caseypsa]

Have you done a video on plugging an expression pedal into Logic? I can never get mine to work. I've seen others do videos on this but they almost always plug into special midi hardware first. I'm talking about quarter inch cable from pedal into (in my case) an IK Multimedia AXE I/O interface. I know the Mac is seeing it because it works in stand-alone programs (Amplitube 5). There has to be a setting somewhere in Logic that content creators have switched on already but always fail to mention in their videos. Any help would be appreciated!

[@Jonamaldo]

Min 1:35 how did you do that? (Reduce the size of the virtual drum channels?)

[@Jonamaldo]

What did you say in second 0:48 Command + Y? My software does nothing when I do that...

[@ewenmitchell6004]

12:11 - Witchery

[@PaulOrtiz]

Damn dude, awesome video. I'm just getting into Logic, coming from Cubase, Live and Reason and honestly it has everything I need. One thing I'd like to know about DMD is if it's possible to map multiple MIDI keys to a single pad? I want to create a track stack containing Superior Drummer 3 (or GGD or whatever) for acoustic drums, and then DMD for metal drum trigger samples, to beef them up. I play keyboard style so I need kicks on B0 and C0 and snares on D1 and E1, but I'd like to be able to load samples and adjust the sound for just one kick and snare sample, rather than having to manage two separate pads. Is this possible?

[@Fnelrbnef]

I don't have as many kits as you do.. ? It's Logic X 10.2.4, is that relevant?

[@Jonamaldo]

Are there things that I need to do in advance prior to follow these instructions? Does it matter if I use a sofware instrument or audio instrument?

[@FlashbackHeartAttack]

How do you record individual parts of the kit in the pro kits. I see them when auditioning but when recording it puts all information on every track. Thanks.

[@pace_of_mind]

Hey Chris, thank you for sharing this video! I have a question, I'd like to use four different DMDs in my project, one per band: low-end, low-mid, mid, high to have more control and use different effect chains. But every time I create a new DMD, it also creates AUX channels for reverb and delay which makes my project cluttered, do you know if there is a way to avoid this?

[@lexingtonsmp]

When I preview a kick in the Drum Machine Designer, it sounds perfect (like it has optimized presets). But when I try the same kick in my tracks, it sounds dull & lifeless. How can I get the kick to sound like it does in the DMD preview? Any help is appreciated. Not sure if my question makes sense.

[@joeyf808]

Hi Chris, How do you go about tracking out the individual drum tracks to audio? Is there an easy way to do it?

[@eplecor]

I found some convoluted way to do it which I don’t even remember. This is my main issue with DMD. I want to bounce my tracks to edit the audio, line up timings manually etc.

[@jamesnyers1721]

@@eplecor Just curiosity. Why is that useful? I always keep everything in DMD. By the way if you want audio, you can bounce tracks in place. DMD is so much more elegant than audio regions. Pair it with an iPad, Logic remote loaded and it is amazing. Like a real drum machine, touch surface.

[@eplecor]

@@jamesnyers1721when you send tracks for mixing they need audio tracks of each individual sound. That’s the main reason but I also like to manually edit the timing of each hit

[@DiexisLePuddin]

okay but what is the output why is there an input and an output

[@jonathanvandenberg3571]

But you used your Nokia to record the audio for your vids?😅