Drum Programming Basics - How to program drums in Pro Tools [MUSIC PRODUCTION LESSON]

[@207HappyToBeHere]

I am brand new to AVID, and I really appreciate all the det6ails you gave about the software. Thank you!

[@AllThruChrist]

Superb.

[@nighttalker9843]

Thanks for such a great video! This was helpful as someone learning Pro Tools, but also for getting better with drum programming.

[@Keep-Smiling00000]

Excellent lesson....learned a lot.

[@lorez-77]

Thanks for this vid Dean. I’m working on a piece right now and I’m really struggling with the percussion parts. I’ve always been impressed by how quickly you can come up with an interesting drums part. Keep it up man :)

[@Jimmywilliams_]

Thank you im going to finally give this a go, for years ive just recorded a solo acoustic.. time to get some beats!

[@MrGsmith333]

Shout out from Spokane Washington USA 🇺🇸

[@jonlatino9964]

so cool. Nice job !

[@Abrhyan]

Very Helpful, you're great explaining this stuff, Thank you so much!!

[@badhammermotorworks810]

Hey man, this is so awesome! I've just been given a Scarlett interface and Protools first and I took one look and buried my head in the sand I found it so overwhelming. This video is awesome, very clear and super useful. It's going in the favourites! Thank you very much.

[@maelgwni]

This was a great informative video for those of us who don't play drums. Thanks so much for this!

[@TheDessez]

Thanks! Very helpful to see how an experienced musician approaches drum programs.

[@humbertosilvacunha2810]

Awesome!!! Thank you very much!!

[@jima1325]

Thanks, this was a great help

[@ritchimaguiremusic]

I NEEDED THIS!!! TY

[@durban5692]

Thank you 👍

[@kendimen008]

Helpful info. How to start, and about simple Rock beat (you should do a 1-3 minute video about specifics of beats for each basic music type/ryhtm (how to setup toms, snare, kick…)about Kontakt tool. Somewhat cumbersome to install all this.

[@jerryramosbass7913]

Awesome! Thanks!

[@ThatsJoshTyler]

7:10 is the same drum beat as the Hannah Montana theme song!!

[@Patrick-dn3zt]

Great video

[@timpatrick8297]

great job! very helpful!

[@nickcabrera3087]

How did you copy and paste the notes right after the ones you made? Happens at 6:34?

[@carloseduardomarciano1395]

This was actually amazing

[@toddmccown]

great job dude! but I really want to hear the rest of that song. sounds great!

[@katohammond]

QUESTION: How do you "repeat" the beats (i.e., copy and paste)? I see you did it, but you did give an explanation or show how that's done

[@longestsoloever]

In Pro Tools (and most other DAWs), you can duplicate a selection, which "pastes" it right after what you selected. Here, that's done with the shortcut Ctrl+D (or Cmd+D on Mac)

[@marianbore]

This looks amazing - I want to try and beat with 3 beats not 4. How can I change that in Pro Tools First please? Now to find the link you put in!

[@thomasgarcia871]

Gracias por el video, todo este procedimiento se puedo hacer sin tener midi? Lo puedo hacer con las teclas de mi laptop?

[@TikiHorea]

Yay! Great stuff, sir.

[@shennen8331]

PLEASE HELP! I downloaded this and a guitar plugin but when I go to add plugin it doesn’t show up, how to I fix this (never added a new plugin before in new)

[@Excellent2009able]

Hi , great video 👏🏻i have a question , When I program drums with a keyboard I usually play a basic beat , Kick , Snare & Hi-hat. Then I play (on keyboard too) my open hihats , ghost notes & drum rolls, cymbals etc on a separate midi track, quantize later & bounce both tracks together into a wav, Is there a way to record the extra midi rolls etc all on the same track without wiping my basic beat ? Also what does the quantize swing button do ? Thanks

[@longestsoloever]

In Pro Tools, you can enable the MIDI Merge button. It’s right next to the click enable button, in the top right corner of the screen with the rest of the MIDI/transport controls. Quantize Swing adds a little bit of “swing” to the note, delaying every “and” in the “1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and” slightly

[@Excellent2009able]

@@longestsoloever thanks very much 🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@늘...피아노]

Thankyou~~~~

[@mr.tutchi]

thank you man

[@Docstar_sing]

1:44 start progaramming!!

[@eht12369]

What shortcut are you using to quickly copy the notes and create a “loop”? i.e. At 6:38. Thanks!

[@longestsoloever]

Control (or command on a Mac) D

[@eht12369]

@@longestsoloever Hey thanks so much!!!

[@elite3207]

Hey great video I was wondering how did you copy and paste the drum beat so quickly in the midi edit window ?

[@longestsoloever]

Control (or command on a Mac) and D to duplicate.

[@michaelfrench9322]

So I downloaded everything and it shows in protools, but when I open kontakt player the library is empty

[@Drugo987]

Thank you sir

[@jacquelyn4374]

3:04 note to myself so i know what window to open

[@christopherryle7421]

I'd like to see how to do a quick tempo change in mid song. I'm not talking about the appearance of a tempo change like you demonstrated by cutting out snare hits, but a change like twice as slow.

[@longestsoloever]

Perhaps overly-philosophical question: is there a difference?

[@shennen8331]

When I click window there’s no midi editor I only see midi event list? What do I do?

[@MusicProMastery]

how i changue the cuantize? you make the beat only in 16. but what if i want a fill in 32?

[@longestsoloever]

Just set your grid to a smaller note duration! You can write fills at any speed you’d like!

[@erictrigsmusic9181]

Everything is installed but i am getting no keyboard 🎹 when i brought up that drum pack. any help yall?

[@S.Turnock]

be really helpful if you could do a walk through of the installation process of Contact as the manufacturer doesn't..its installed on my mac but the plug ins don't show up on pro tools, nobody on youtube has a particularly helpful video on that either -_-

[@Heezay]

is it possible to show the drum name in the piano roll?

[@ProfSmoke]

For some reason when I open the midi editor it doesn’t let me hear the drums or put any notes down:( any help? I have the drums selected in Kontakt in the correct chann

[@ProfSmoke]

I figured it out, it kept defaulting to selecting the first track I had rather than the one I was selecting in midi editor so I was on my Click track

[@travv88]

Hey bro are you gonna make any more videos? I really like your content.

[@UltradragonProduction]

How to end up drums dears on the fourth clip? Tutorial please

[@Mistcakes]

Excellent, easy tutorial to follow, thank you!

[@elharrop]

Thanks for the great tutorial, how do I get sounds from other kits so I can customize my own kit? Do i need another program for that?

[@longestsoloever]

Thanks! Kontakt is a *super* powerful sampler, letting you map all kinds of drum samples to different notes, velocity levels, and more. It's a bit much to get into in a comment here, but there are a lot of tutorials on Kontakt around the web. That said, you'd need to full version of Kontakt to start assembling your own kits. Which DAW are you working in. Pro Tools?

[@elharrop]

@@longestsoloever Ah thanks for clarifying that, as I was getting confused between Kontakt player and the Kontakt sampler. I actually use Reaper, it does have a sampler built in but its quite tedious to use, I am now beginning to understand why Ableton is becoming a DAW of choice!

[@longestsoloever]

Ableton’s awesome. That’s my main DAW for any electronic music production. I use pro tools for anything more live-instrument focused.

[@matt6707]

I am using pro tools first and i was trying to follow step-by-step but i didn't have a button for muti-channel plug in... plz help

[@TrippyWheelsEnduro]

i know this is late but that is probably because pro tools first only lets you use the stock plugins or the ones you buy from avid market place. if you have not bought one then it will either not show or will not let you click it. hope this helps if you have not figured it out already.

[@jelleminne]

I dont have the insert a-e window can anyone help me and tell me how i get that

[@longestsoloever]

Either go to your View menu and find the Inserts option, or switch to your Mix window, and right click “Sends” or “I/O” until you find a menu that’ll let you enable the Inserts.

[@jelleminne]

@@longestsoloever thnkju so much for the quick reaction it was in the view menu!

[@mooners40]

When you put the first four kick drums down you didn't describe how to do it - step by step - the blue symbol is on GRAB but your icon is a pencil - is it double click to place the desired sound into the song ? Every step needs to be described exactly as it happens for it to be understood

[@longestsoloever]

Sorry. Yes, when holding the grab tool, you can double click to place a note. It’s probably more efficient to use the pencil tool, though.

[@mooners40]

@@longestsoloever thanks a lot - I'm very new to this - I appreciate your reply - I've downloaded Kontakt but it doesn't appear in protools - how do import it to the plugins, please?

[@MrMoony1235]

I've downloaded the library and followed the instructions, how do I get it to appear in pro tools first like in the video? I still only see Xpand2 in my instrument menu

[@theundertakerman2]

How are you doing by now?

[@themuchdingdong]

I'm having the same problem, and the piano keys won't show up in my kontakt

[@johng5396]

@@themuchdingdong If you go to the top of the Kontakt Player, there's a little Icon with three squares, make sure "Keyboard" is selected

[@Wout1337]

I have the same issue

[@Wout1337]

I think the reason is that PT First can't utilise 3rd party plugins. They need to be obtained via the AVID store.

[@davesmith469]

Thank you, total noob who can now get by :)

[@guitarizt68]

While I found the video to be somewhat helpful, instead of digressing into something like time signatures, you'd have been better served explaining every step of the process of creating the drum track, placement and synchronizing and copy/pasting - including what to look for in drop-down menus.

[@PEACEinYESHUA-oj7vc1pk7w]

I am a complete beginner to Pro Tools and using midi. I am a singer songwriter. I found the video good from the point of view it shows me what can be done. But there was no explanation as to how to delete beats, or how to repeat a drum feel or rather duplicate. For complete beginners please go much slower and explain in a step by step fashion. I so desperately want to learn so I can record the songs I write.

[@Generalbas1972]

Yeah this video shows you how he does it, the *ONLY* thing missing is him explaining *WHAT* he does. like when he copies the drum beat while the song is playing, he shows he does, but does he tell how it's done? nooo - would have been kinda nice to know. Same as when he makes the drum beat he shifts from the main window to the piano roll again with explaining how. or when he change the volume of the drums he goes into another window but still doesn't explain what that window is or how to get there. So yeah you can use this to learn how to put your mouse on the grid and get a drum sound, but not much else.

[@AM-fp1jc]

How do you duplicate the drums midi notes so easily?

[@utilitydisk]

Alfred Mandagi ctrl+D

[@cmrsonicsbb2438]

FL STUDIO has built in sampler.. you turn it on and play. no need to make special midi, audio or instrument tracks. in fl studio everything goes together. send everything to mixer.. FL studio mixer has "wires" to route channels not the whole lot of 4 step click in routing to sends and returns like pro tools.. pro tools is such a dinosaur...

[@JesseClark-h4h]

why do people use the midi editor seems like more of a pain in the ass than writing on the instrument track itself???

[@chaosevolution]

Why is every pro tools tutorial so bad and not to the point? Can't find anything on splitting audio etc

[@sjb7183]

that snare sounds like a ham sandwich

[@splicerzo7625]

Remake Halo theme

[@Elmonrian]

Great video

[@mooners40]

How do I add Kontakt to protools ?

[@sockpocketpre-alpha8258]

yep, no idea what to do. useless video if I cant start it.

[@mooners40]

@@sockpocketpre-alpha8258 it should add itself in the audio suites listed in protools - and should be available to access as a plug in