How to Create Tracks to Add FX to Drums in MT Power Drumkit 2 in Reaper

[@BillGraper]

I also use reaper. As soon as I open MT Drum Kit, it asks me if I want to put all of the individual drums onto separate tracks. I click 'yes', and it does it for me. The drums go to the main drum track, but the individual sounds are automatically routed to the different tracks. I don't know why it didn't do the same thing for you.

[@ChrisSnyderGuitar]

hmm thats really interesting, thanks for sharing that man. I just tried it out for myself, the main track works but still can't operate the other tracks individually for some reason. I'm gonna have to look into that more.

[@BillGraper]

@@ChrisSnyderGuitar Instead of "Insert New Track," try using "Insert Virtual Instrument On New Track." I'm not sure if that's the difference, but that's the option I use.

[@BillGraper]

@@ChrisSnyderGuitar Yep, that's it! I just tried it with another drum program. If I just add the track & then add the drum kit, it doesn't ask if you want them on different tracks. Then I did it my way, and it gave me that option. 🙂

[@ChrisSnyderGuitar]

@@BillGraper I'll check it out!

[@ChrisSnyderGuitar]

@@BillGraper ah nice man, thanks for looking into it! yeah i actually got there, but after that I can't work with the tracks individually for some reason. like all the tracks are there, but the only one that works right is the main track, even though they all appear to be routed? so when I solo the other tracks nothing plays in other words. very strange heh, def gotta figure this out. appreciate you checking it out tho!

[@TrevorLahey3]

Yeah man, you’re a huge help. This is exactly what I needed to know here. Lucky I’m using MT as well haha. Thanks Chris! Gonna subscribe bc you’ve been more help than any other channel I’ve watched.

[@ChrisSnyderGuitar]

wow thats awesome man! i'm glad i could help

[@SubliminalAudioLab]

Many thanks bro!!! I couldn't separate the audio output to have more control over certain drums or drum cymbals. Here a new subscriber. !! Greetings and blessings from Mexico,

[@hitermiss986]

Why can't all tutorials be this helpful? Great Job!

[@ChrisSnyderGuitar]

Haha thanks Joe I'm really glad it helped!

[@alm5966]

Strange. I was asking myself the very question about separate drum tracks in Reaper with MTPD and it's there on my feed. Very spooky. Thanks for the tutorial!

[@ChrisSnyderGuitar]

hahah funny how the universe works! I'm glad you found it useful man, glad I could help!

[@Miro_Aakkonen]

Really helpful and straightforward tutorial, thanks for this!

[@ChrisSnyderGuitar]

you're welcome Aaro, I'm really glad it helped!

[@MrBikboi]

Great tutorial Chris, thank you for this.

[@ChrisSnyderGuitar]

You're welcome man!

[@edgardoserrano5492]

Hi Chris, this was a great video. Thank you very much and Congrats!

[@ChrisSnyderGuitar]

you're welcome Edgardo I'm glad you liked!

[@cassasio1]

Thanks for this tuto, very helpfull.

[@ChrisSnyderGuitar]

Awesome man, I'm glad it helped!!

[@kenwolf6293]

That was exactly the information I required and am hungry to learn..I have only ever used Reaper and there is so much I don't understand hence I reach out to you guys..one problem is they keep changing things ie the sends button was in a different place..I found it on the sliders. But combined with the video you linked me I have hours of creativity ahead..again many thanks

[@ChrisSnyderGuitar]

That's awesome man I'm glad to help! Yeah I agree they def change the layout every now and then which can be confusing to keep up with. I'd like if they just kept one layout and stuck with it haha.

[@ChrisSnyderGuitar]

also wanna share this channel with you. I post stuff like that on here too but this one is solely dedicated to Reaper so it has tons of info. I think you'll find it helpful! kzbin.info/door/q297H7Ca98HlB5mVFHGSsQ

[@el.guitarmaniac295]

Thanx a lot! I knew how to do that in FLStudio, but as I switched to Reaper, your lesson was very useful. Thanks)))

[@ChrisSnyderGuitar]

np man, I'm really glad to hear that!

[@Final_Gift]

Hi can u plz Share how to do that in Fl Studio plz🙏

[@johnsguitarmusicanddemos]

This is what I use and I appreciate the upload. It was helpful!

[@ChrisSnyderGuitar]

Np man I'm really glad I could help!

[@lcd1957]

Thanks, good work.

[@90s267]

Awesome tutorial bro 🤘🤘🤘

[@ChrisSnyderGuitar]

thanks so much man I'm glad you liked!!

[@Machoniak]

Thank you very much for your tutorial mate 👍

[@ChrisSnyderGuitar]

You're welcome man, glad it helped!

[@kenwolf6293]

Massive ty....finally i know id like to get each track showing its own waveform...maybe thats something you have already done ..ill look out for yer vids anyway...

[@ChrisSnyderGuitar]

np Ken I'm glad I could help! So you would basically have to render out the midi tracks to create audio tracks. I'm actually unable to make a video for that at the moment but here's a video from a fellow youtuber that explains how to do it really well. Lemme know if it helps! kzbin.info/www/bejne/aHa4c6elbs6mi68

[@riffsfromtheabyss666]

This was extremely helpful!

[@ChrisSnyderGuitar]

awesome dude I'm glad to hear that!

[@daviddahl8562]

I followed this tutorial step by step everything working great even the tracks added with kick, snare etc... I saved that part as a template so I don't have to keep repeating it closed everything up shut my computer down got back home turned everything back on again Now I'm not getting any sound coming out of it at all.wasting a lot of time on that all day and night then decided to ask you about hopefully you can help

[@ChrisSnyderGuitar]

So when you start up MT each time you have to click that button in the beginning so you can keep using it for free. Or you can donate to it so you don't have to keep clicking it every session. Otherwise you'll have no sound. That's usually the reason why that happens. Hope this helps!

[@daviddahl8562]

@@ChrisSnyderGuitar I do that I'm planning on buying it next payday I found my scarlett 2i2 interface everything works great and sounds better now I can't get any sound in the mt drumkit I was getting it before I hooked it up do I need to buy it to make it work. I'm not using the tempplate anymore and follow the same procedure

[@ChrisSnyderGuitar]

@@daviddahl8562 hmm honestly im not sure. it should be working just by hitting that button to continue for free, so if it still isn't working then it may have to do with something unrelated. at that point its really hard to tell what it is since it could be a huge number of things. wondering if it has to do with the scarlett 2i2 interface? I actually got that one too and was having sound issues for a while till i figured it out. had to do a lot of trial and error stuff and read up on it but eventually got it working. either way I really hope you can figure this out man.

[@daviddahl8562]

@@ChrisSnyderGuitar I figured it out in settings the input is set to scarlett 2i2 I keep forgetting the settings below that I checked the output to now it works sorry about that

[@ChrisSnyderGuitar]

@@daviddahl8562 ah ok np man! glad you figured it out

[@miteshbandhu1914]

Easy way : go to fx and select the name of the plugin its written like Vst: mt power drumkit with a checkbox with a tick. Now you got it right click it and you will get a dialog box. Select use fx multichain 16 track some setting like that and boom everything will be done for you automatically. Even tracks will be made. You just have to select the out from the plugin. It works for me.

[@miteshbandhu1914]

If you need more tracks you can create more but 8 is enough

[@ChrisSnyderGuitar]

I gotta try that!

[@oapichart]

very useful bro thank you so much🎵❤

[@ChrisSnyderGuitar]

You're welcome man!

[@nieldavebaliling6941]

Thank you so much. Can we adjust the velocity and sensitivity?

[@ChrisSnyderGuitar]

np man! yeah def man, I actually cover that stuff in this video kzbin.info/www/bejne/m6PLaaF5a82Mf7s

[@nieldavebaliling6941]

@@ChrisSnyderGuitar thanks man!

[@ChrisSnyderGuitar]

@@nieldavebaliling6941 np man!!

[@bluecold60]

Thanks man, helped a lot

[@ChrisSnyderGuitar]

Np Aaron glad I could help!

[@DivineCode2019]

Josef Christ!! Watched it once again and got some questions. I will five you a call tommorow, may se you will help me out. Thanks a lot man! Zhive Belarus!!

[@ChrisSnyderGuitar]

yeah man lemme know your questions!

[@RPSchonherr]

That was the hard way but probably the way you might need to do it in DAWs other than Reaper. In reaper right click in the tracks area and select add new instrumnent track and select the MT Drum Kit. It'll pop up and ask if you want to create a seperate track for each drum. Say yes and it'll make all the tracks for you. Then you just have to go into Mixer and assign the tracks to which drum you want. Also in the new reaper v.7 you now get a folder icon when you drag up instead of the blue line with a part missing. They just use the blue line now for moving tracks not making folders. Also with MT Drum kit. after you save your project and load it back up later your drums won't work until you go into the FX and hit that skip button again, or you can donate $9.00 to remove that.

[@KPMUSICINDIA]

HOW TO DO THIS SAME IN FL STUDIO?

[@johnmary1852]

How do you Put more swing in the Drums? that would be nice to learn about. Just getting into this and need some schooling lol

[@Sandytuck]

Hi chris, Really great demo on individual drum tracks , a handy little drum kit to have MT drums . Can you import other kits into MT drums . Thanks a lot. Les.

[@diogocarneiro2016]

I liked the video. Perhaps I didn't understand why each chanel has to be in 2 tracks. That's because of stereo?

[@ChrisSnyderGuitar]

hey Diogo, yup you're right about it being in stereo. so essentially the 2 channels represent the left and right speakers. so if you only had one of them activated you would only hear the sound coming out of 1 speaker, so we activate both sides so we can hear them through both speakers. hope that helps!

[@diogocarneiro2016]

@@ChrisSnyderGuitar Hi Chris. Thanks for the answer. One issue of this video is that we can't see the master volume to cheque out if the tracks are being sended between -18 and -12. Cheers mate

[@ChrisSnyderGuitar]

@@diogocarneiro2016 hm honestly not sure what you mean but would be interested to learn

[@diogocarneiro2016]

@@ChrisSnyderGuitar I mean that's important in recording sessions to take a look at master level for your sound/song don't clip after render it.

[@ChrisSnyderGuitar]

@@diogocarneiro2016 ah I see what you're saying. While I do agree with that, that's something I would talk about in a different tutorial since this one is specifically geared toward creating drum tracks. I appreciate the input though, have a good one!

[@nieldavebaliling6941]

Hey man, how can we change individual patch? I don't know how to change the tom and snare

[@ChrisSnyderGuitar]

hmm as far as I know MT only comes with those default drum sounds, never heard of anyone being able to change patches unfortunately. i personally started using GGD for the toms and circle drums for the snare.

[@eyesagainsthide235]

Thanks. ❤️

[@ChrisSnyderGuitar]

no problem!!

[@ChrisSnyderGuitar]

Thanks for watching! Click here to learn how to use MT Power Drumkit 2 kzbin.info/www/bejne/m6PLaaF5a82Mf7s

[@unleashthefury111]

Why is it that once you put every drum in its own track, you can't see the individual notes of each track separate so you can edit each note per piece? Like applying reverb to a snare at a certain part and only that part? You can only hear each track and see the meter moving, but not the actual notes?

[@VincVEVO]

Hello mr. Can you advice? I connected my v-drums to PC and set up the midi channels, can see input signal, but the VST pluggin is not doing any sound. Can you help? I try to use MT Power Drumkit 2 but I am new in this and midi. Thanks.

[@AAnthonystudio617]

Is there a way to SAVE that setting you just did so I don’t have to keep doing that all the time?

[@ChrisSnyderGuitar]

yup! go to File > save project as template, then just give it a name. you'll be able to go back to "save project as template" and just reload it from there.

[@AAnthonystudio617]

@@ChrisSnyderGuitar thank you 🙏🏼

[@ChrisSnyderGuitar]

@@AAnthonystudio617 np man!

[@preciousosahon4274]

Hi, I am using the latest version of reaper. And am new. Send and receive, where can I see it bcos its not at the place you clicked after naming the tracks

[@cademiller7746]

I’ve got the outputs in the plugin right and the sends right but what is the hardware output. I can’t get an even output of the whole plugin. I’ve messed around with different options but I end up just getting the kick and snare or the whole kit in just one ear and not the other? What am I doing wrong?

[@bassd.goodman]

Hi Chris. Do you know how you can do the same routing in Ableton? I couldn't find any tutorials on that with this same drum plugin.

[@ChrisSnyderGuitar]

Hey man, unfortunately I'm not familiar with Ableton, but it looks like this video actually goes into it. They're using Superior Drummer but I'm wondering if you can just substitute MT instead kzbin.info/www/bejne/pmXYiJx8ns6LaJY

[@raziswickid]

Is there a way to change the drum kit itself? For instance, can MT Power Drumkit change the sound of the snare (going for a more 80's drum kit sound) - instead of applying an effect?

[@kshitijk14]

this one is great, this is the video i was searching for, thanks dude, help me out in one more way share its template too😁, cause i m very lazy to do that 😂, and thanks for the video

[@ChrisSnyderGuitar]

Haha thanks man I'm glad it helped!! You mean share the reaper template I use?

[@kshitijk14]

@@ChrisSnyderGuitar welcome man, yaa thats what i was saying, rpp file

[@ChrisSnyderGuitar]

@@kshitijk14 you mean like a mix template?

[@kshitijk14]

@@ChrisSnyderGuitar no just the drum one raw, like how u arranged the parts of the kit to the different track, i was asking for that only, btw for the mix template u re telling its also not a bad idea for a video for u

[@ChrisSnyderGuitar]

@@kshitijk14 ohh i see what you mean now haha. yeah I'm not sure how to do that actually. but this is the template I use, it's a premade template that already has everything set up for you. def makes it a lot easier and my mixes sound so much better now than they used to. kzbin.info/www/bejne/pn3ZeGl9gsehgrc

[@cshizz22]

Hey thanks for the tutorials. Any reason why you wouldn't just make the track you labelled as "Drum Midi" as the top level folder? Not a big deal, just curious as that is what I was thinking of doing.

[@ChrisSnyderGuitar]

Np man I'm glad they helped! So you could technically name them whatever makes the most sense to you. The only reason I didn't name it that is because the 2nd track is the MT Power track, which is basically what generates the midi drums. So I felt it was more appropriate to designate that one as the Drum Midi track. I hope that helps!

[@cshizz22]

@@ChrisSnyderGuitar No problem man. That makes sense to me. Thanks for doing this tutorial, it was exactly what I was looking for.

[@ChrisSnyderGuitar]

@@cshizz22 awesome man I'm really glad to hear that!

[@liamgundersen2082]

Cool video! Gonna have to try this haha. How would you go about using eq and compression?

[@ChrisSnyderGuitar]

honestly that's still something I'm working on myself haha. but I would check out this guy's channel for tips on that. this is the main channel I've been learning from when it comes to mixing metal songs. Another good one is Recording Revolution which covers other genres like rock and stuff. kzbin.info/door/b-ISKOACgJCOtQ9vO_99QQ

[@liamgundersen2082]

@@ChrisSnyderGuitar Haha I gotcha, alright thanks I'll check those channels out!

[@Lyncheffect]

wow reaper looks like a bit of a shit show for basic routing compared to ableton

[@RobBob555]

I have no idea what your doing..its all so complicated 😪