How To Program REALISTIC MIDI Drums in 6 STEPS!!!!

#cubase #musicproduction #drums
I hope this video helps you get some killer sounding drums! :)
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[@janvirtanen6199]

Thx man!!! I finally bought myself Glenn Frickers ELE Drums and am willing to learn the stuff. And your tips are just gold. Especially the thing with the velocities. They drove me crazy.

[@MrLevi5010]

Excellent content and delivery...thanks for sharing

[@lance134679]

Great stuff - I've learned a lot. I think the Midi tracks that come with your DAW or drum VST are great for getting ideas for beats and fills, but I've never actually used them in a song. Thanks!

[@connorbehary1601]

This is super helpful and easy to understand!! Definitely something I needed! Thank you!!

[@LeviKellerMusic]

Glad you found it helpful!

[@cajun3197]

Really glad I stumbled on your channel! This is golden!

[@CurtTrammel]

Wow! I am glad that I came across you. This video really helped understand drums a little better, since I am not a drummer. Thanks for sharing your expertise. New follower.

[@ObjectiveDynamics]

Fantastic! Thanks. This was what I've been looking for

[@lyrad24]

Thank you for this! I am a guitarist and trying to start making midi drums for my friend's compositions/arrangements. I already forgot what drum software or vst I got years ago.

[@Jadevibration]

So helpful thank you mate!

[@taranazare2633]

Very good. Thank you for sharing.

[@michaeldavis9954]

Great presentation

[@andreashutahaean3470]

thank you for sharing this!!! you're the best, man

[@LeviKellerMusic]

Glad it helped! Any requests for future videos just let me know!

[@BerrisProds]

very good, thank you so much

[@groovybaby6057]

Thank you Levi ;)

[@Bigwoody95826]

Awesome, I might have to go for your course. Now I just started Scott Eliott's course

[@LeviKellerMusic]

Cool! If you go to the site in the description, you can fill out the form to get notified when it is open for enrollment again!

[@DavidRFIT]

Very useful.

[@headwinded1948]

If you're a drummer yourself, and know the song material, simply mic a practice pad, shut the click off, and record. Use that as the base track, and then match the your midi hits up to what you've done later on. Lots of top tier music was created with no click running at all, so if human / live is the vibe you're going for... :) If that's too extreme, drift the metronome / tempo of the song itself up and down a smidge.

[@pastilance1]

Really great and informative video mate, I really liked your explanation! Keep them coming! I am personally interested in Cubase's logical editor with your style of explanation :) Cheers!

[@LeviKellerMusic]

Thank you, so glad you like the video! Glad it helped! Oh man, great idea. I have some awesome logical editor stuff... I’ll put it on my list and get a video made on it soon! Thanks for the request!

[@pastilance1]

@@LeviKellerMusic Thank you and looking forward to it! 🍻

[@creepymcpeepers]

Maybe I will check out the course

[@Mandy-Lane]

nice video!! i like

[@LeviKellerMusic]

Thank you!!

[@millerhxc]

Awesome video. Very useful and clear. Many thanks. Only thing is I'm using Reaper and it has both a quantize and humanize function which both look different to the function you're using, so I'm not entirely sure which is the best to use and how. Anyone know?

[@PhantaseaTV]

Fantastic tutorials. Thanks for posting! It is interesting for me though because i compose techno, electronlca etc ala Depeche Mode, and actually in these genres "humanizing" the drums is NOT good for the synthetic sound. Think "Blue Monday" by OMD for example. Just thought I'd mention the drum style will very much be affected by the genre.

[@djerikfox]

omg the drum kit sounds amazing..what kit is that from sd? regards

[@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

[@collinward2995]

sweeet

[@lavinchi6709]

👏👏👏👏🎸🎬✨

[@wthompson006]

Hey. This was helpful and I enjoyed it. If I could make 1 suggestion: please slow down your speech a little. I actually had to check my settings to make sure I didn’t accidentally hit something to set the playback speed to 1.5. I really did like finding this topic and got something from it.

[@LeviKellerMusic]

Glad you enjoyed! Thanks for the suggestion- I have definitely slowed down in my newer videos! 😊

[@KillNeckRiff]

When I record my midi alesis drum kit, while on recording its fine. But when I heard the results it's totally latency, any suggestions?

[@PhantaseaTV]

I meant Blue Monday by New Order, sorry. Listen to the drums on that. Totally different style. Cheers.

[@davidwatts8281]

That drum part sounds like Roxette - It must have been love

[@joseferro1432]

Excellent video! Could you please show how you would do flams?

[@LeviKellerMusic]

Thank you! Yes, I will do that! I’ll plan to upload it this weekend!

[@joseferro1432]

Levi Keller That would be awesome. Thanks!

[@LeviKellerMusic]

The flam video is posted. Thanks for the request! If you have any more send them my way and I’ll do my best to address them! :)

[@FlightDeckStudios]

How do you get SD3 drums into the midi field, I cant seem to get the midi file to be on the actual track. the track stays empty, all the audio plays from the SD3 plug in. Does that make sense?

[@gilbertsevdays]

how to seperate them into multi tracks?

[@caimbeauty9628]

So basically programming drums start in the piano roll once you pick a realistic beat?

[@bongzkirattleheadbermejo7674]

👍👍👍

[@zacwattus4320]

How does Superior go in terms of CPU power and storage? I absolutely NEED it but not sure if it’ll be too powerful for me

[@LeviKellerMusic]

It is not bad at all for me personally for the CPU! As far as RAM, usually a drum kit when loaded in Superior seems to use around 3 gb of RAM, or so it says in the plugin (it shows you how much it uses). Maybe a bit more if you use extra mics, etc. I think it has over 200gb of sounds in total, but the great thing is that you can specify exactly what you want installed and loaded! So for example, you do not need to install the surround sound mics if you are not using them or do not have the hard drive space. It is a pretty well thought out system and seems like you would be able to run as heavy or light of a setup as you want, depending on what you need!

[@NGMProduction-HoaAmPhoiK-pg3jv]

Preset drum ?

[@JUD2784]

What metronome speed are you working with?

[@LeviKellerMusic]

The metronome setting in the project is at 72bpm!

[@rocketracoon2337]

i need that snare sound, can you give some tutorial?

[@LeviKellerMusic]

Yes! Definitely! I am using Superior Drummer 3 and it is the Tama Bell Brass snare samples. But there is also some processing on it I did outside of Superior Drummer. I will make a new video explaining the mixing techniques I use for it!

[@rocketracoon2337]

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[@LeviKellerMusic]

@@rocketracoon2337 Hey! I just posted the video teaching how to mix that snare!! Hope you enjoy!

[@starpower2314]

hey, i have a question, i record my own samples, i use logic pro x and the built in multi sampler, usually set velocity to 127, on rolls it sounds robotic like it is overlapping to quick with a ugly clipping mid sound, the samples are good too, i feel like it has got to be a setting in the sampler or something, it seems so simple but i cant find anything anywhere! changing the velocity doesnt fix it, i listen to drums tracks that im refrencing to and the snare samples seem to be consistent in sound and volume, and sound similar to my own samples, is there something im missing? would appreciate it very much if you could maybe give some tips thanks!

[@starpower2314]

i learned that turning the polyphony setting in the logic multi sampler to the highest number helped with what i was talking about, i just want to use one sample, not multiple hits or velocity's 👍

[@claytonmurrayguitar]

I want superior drummer just for that snare, wow

[@LeviKellerMusic]

Yes! Great sounding snare! It is the Tama Bell Brass!

[@thefuse03101]

@@LeviKellerMusic is that mostly reverb or more room mics for that? Sounds great

[@LeviKellerMusic]

Thank you! I use both and even a bit of delay! I’m making a breakdown video on this snare sound and will post it next week! Stay tuned! :)

[@LeviKellerMusic]

@@thefuse03101 Just posted the snare mixing video! :). Hope you guys enjoy it!!

[@armandorodriguez6175]

yeah that snare is solid.

[@dexterzablocki6903]

what program is this?

[@LeviKellerMusic]

The recording software is Cubase and the drums are from Superior Drummer 3!

[@gtamediaproductions1]

@@LeviKellerMusic does Superior Drummer have the same quality of sounding drums as EZ Drummer?

[@LCRLive687]

too bad one can't group and sub-arrow expand drum hit variation types... like hats should be one group at least.

[@benickumetsatulekahju484]

Great job, but please breathe between two sentences, it's very tiring for the brain. You do not have to hurry and cut the pauses this way. A human brain does need time and breathing to correctly work. I don't want to be negative, just to give a precious advice. Blessings from France 🙂

[@caynyq]

Everything goes very fast, you talk so fast and indistinctly, so I get tired of listening, sorry this was not good

[@arlenkalifuentes]

...seems helpful, but he talks so fast I can't catch what he's saying:-)

[@victorbicudo1374]

still sounds totally programmed.

[@adityabali1939]

Only because you have a cognitive bias as you saw the process unfold. Psychology 101

[@quangminhtrieu4703]

Programmed drum sounds never be as good as recorded sound. That's why most producers programmed it just for a demo, and then record for the best results.