Logic Pro X - Use Drummer Grooves with 3rd Party Instruments (RESAMPLING & MIXING)

[@MusicTechHelpGuy]

NOTE: You can actually just swap out the Drum Kit Designer for any 3rd party plugin that keeps the GM MIDI Map order at ANY time. You don't have to convert the Drummer region to MIDI data.The focus of this video is using multiple different 3rd party plugins and sample libraries for each voice of the Drummer groove.

[@reginomusicHD]

MusicTechHelpGuy hi bro great tutorial l follow you since 6 years ago I learned a lot from you, can we make great blues rhythm ?? Or reggae with this ? Keep on bro

[@zaki8003]

Can i convert Bass Guitar audio to MIDI ?

[@olivergodfrey]

MusicTechHelpGuy Brill, cheers for this. Much appreciated!

[@lincolnmmitchell]

Markos Zekiki yes - use flex pitch on your audio track, then export as midi.

[@jonahmusic3416]

I'm making the jump from GarageBand to Logic and just want to say a massive thanks - these tutorials are amazing! So much logical, concise and easy to understand content. Stay safe dude 👍

[@ayokikando]

I am watching all of your older tutorials and God bless you sir. I truly appreciate all the work and time you put into these videos. I'm becoming a master of logic pro and it's all because of you. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

[@varunnarayanan3477]

Thank you for all the endless logic tutorials. I'm really glad I discovered your channel. I've learnt so much, and cannot thank you enough. Your dedication really inspires young musicians like me. Live long and prosperous 🖖

[@johnhall2009]

Dude. You are an international treasure!

[@Aamir_Z]

Very, very awesome video (especially the advice at the end to stay away from people !). I've been struggling with integrating Studio Drummer into Logic and you've made it so easy!

[@jonahmusic3416]

I'm making the jump from GarageBand to Logic and just want to say a massive thanks - these tutorials are amazing! So much logical, concise and easy to understand content. Stay safe dude 👍

[@adambickford2406]

You have just opened up a plethora of ideas I can't wait to try. Thank you from Australia, keep the videos coming!

[@gcbains]

I have learnt a lot by watching your videos..Thanx a lot for sharing your knowledge.Always looking forward for more stuff and congrats for your new house.

[@walkinbird]

MusicTechHelpGuy looks so different than I imagined!! Hahahahaha! Great video as always. Big fan here!

[@Garriswillbegarris]

So I watched this and at first thought, perfect, yes, exactly. But then, it hit men that you can not only go this route - which is awesome once you’re committed to parts you want, but prior to that, you can open up a drummer track and then drop whatever plugin running GM into the top slot where Drum Kit Designer normally is after opening Smart Drummers in logic and BAM, you’ve got the Smart drummer track workflow routing into different tones. So nice for songwriting, exploration, jamming, that you can just get phat tones out of another VST with standard GM drum MIDI in and still have all the controls from the smart drummer workflow. Doing it now with ROLI drums.

[@Garriswillbegarris]

Hahah I just saw that’s your pinned reply!

[@DebbieBarrette]

This is pure gold. I’m not a drummer so using the Logic Drummer is handy but the sounds suck so I was wondering if this was possible. Thanks for the great tutorial.

[@Clormo]

IMO, even better than memorizing the GM MIDI Map order and to be a bit more efficient for laying out quick stuff, simply prepare a template with separate tracks for kick, snare, etc with your favorite samples (I tend to use ultrabeat) and then when you do the whole separate by note pitch thing, drag each resulting MIDI region into each of the custom tracks you have with your samples that you typically use/favorites. Another thing you can do from there is obviously change the tone of the sample inside the custom track (depending on which one you use) and bam!, more possibilities without necessarily having other heavier plugins in play.

[@Scottyx0x]

Great video.. I’ve been a follower for several years... I appreciate all that you do.

[@newguy6935]

Best logic tutorials on the web. Great vid, again.

[@rickhorvath]

Nice. The only thing bothering me is your final kick drum choice which sounds like over compressed cardboard. Is this really how we want kick drums to sound today. I still love how Ringos kick sounds on the ‘White’ album remastered. Thoughts ?

[@449876]

That was awesome I have been trying to figure out how to do this! To get the composite drum track separated out to channels...Thank you for this big time!!

[@marcolyott]

Nice one Josh! Stay safe and all. All the Best to you and yours, from Devon UK

[@bryancolevox]

WOW! Such a helpful video! Thank you so much for posting

[@michaelpatrina6183]

Thanks Josh. Always amazingly helpful.

[@murahachibu]

Great video! I know your voice so well, but have never seen you before. I don’t know why but in my head I always pictured Andy from Reverb/PGS, lol. Anyway, thanks again for a killer tutorial!

[@Vibesformusic]

Is this the best HOW TO videos channel on youtube? I think so 👌

[@hopetea7670]

Excellent as ever Josh. Hope you've settled in now!

[@murzomusic_live]

Stay safe man. You are great !!!

[@JEtienneMusic]

It's super echo heavy but congrats on the move, I'm moving in the middle of this too. top of April. great stuff as always sir. You give so much insight!!

[@DavePalac]

Very nice video! As always you are awesome and clear!

[@gideon_katta]

Hey bro, its so good to see your face 1st time.. I am a great fan of you..i am music director from tollywood (india)

[@HybridMusicians]

Awesome! I was trying to accomplish the same thing using a way longer route! Thanks man!

[@craigaycock505]

Good luck in the new house!

[@joeypereira1592]

Nice....Joe from Staten Island....stay safe my friend....

[@zsoltg]

You’re amazing! Thank you.

[@AllanGildea]

Bit of a game changer! Thanks a bunch!

[@lincolnmmitchell]

No need to convert to midi. Also you can save as a patch for quick recall!

[@cherylolveramusic]

WOW, thank you so much! I'm just learning to record and produce my own music and, as a singer, my drums sounded like crap and I could not figure out what to do.

[@NotAt4]

Awesome video my friend. You should be in charge of my university. We would finally learn something worth learning.

[@JeffyG]

Hey Josh… few viewers will understand why you’re explaining this concept, but it’s really important. I have XO, Playbeat 3, NI Komplete 13 with Battery and 5 other drum instruments and I’d like to just be using DMD and Logic pattern regions. I want 1 Kit making tool and I want all my patterns in 1 place. Seems like a simple idea, right? Not so easy. I’m surfing around for advice on whether users of these 3rd party drum apps use the built in sequencer(s) or drag patterns into Logic?

[@michaelpatrina6183]

Great info as always sir. Thanks!

[@EmirJesus1]

Hey do you have a video on your favorite/ best 3rd party VSTs?

[@lincolnmmitchell]

I do this all the time and love it.

[@aksdoty2j]

I only recently started doing this..I use spitfire labs drums with logic drummer midis...on the whole it's more realistic than logic drummer... Also fyi labs drums are mapped differently and the velocities dont suit the kit so a few things need to be tweaked here and there..

[@SeaofTranquility]

Wow I had no idea about the convert to MIDI option! :o

[@chaosme1ster]

You can also drag the drummer region onto an instrument track. That automatically converts it to midi. Then drag back onto the drummer track. Drag-drop-drag-drop. For me that often works faster than right-clicking and picking a menu-option. To each his own though...

[@chilp9759]

Quick question, I see that the MIDI region for each individual note pitch has a label to the left of it when viewing in the piano roll editor... the grey strip saying the instrument name. How does one bring that window up, say for ex, when working with the ESX24? I notice that it shows up at times when using the ESX24, but it vanishes when I move something. I would like to bring that column up at all times because I find it useful. Please let me know, Thanks!

[@modernman4269]

congratulations on your new home, great content have been following you (not stalking) LOL, very good videos than you !!!

[@kaidenmajarali7665]

If I like a part of the take but I still want to use record repeat and keep recording how do I set it up where I can assign a button to do record repeat (Ex the letter "R" on my keyboard) then another button to keep the take saved but at the same time repeat the recording (Ex the assigning letter R+K for repeat the recording and keep the take I just recorded. I am from Toronto and the way hip hop artist record here is they punch in each line and they freestyle different lines and then they find the lines they want to say so sometimes I want to keep the takes or just start them over. I want to do this faster because with record toggle I like how I can restart fast but once they find something they like and. want to keep the take I have to stop the recording then comp the bar then and the artists want to record right away and they get angry when they have to wait. A good example of what I'm trying to achieve is in this video where the artist is recording then the engineer either restarts the recording and deletes the take or restarts the recording and keeps the take But the recording never stops and there music is always playing in the artists headphones, kzbin.info/www/bejne/h5KVmWyIhZ1kmLs

[@jeanchindeko5477]

Awesome, thanks for the tips. And stay safe

[@zaykofmusic]

As always amazing tutorial. Thanks a lot :)

[@sebastiancitystories]

Awesome tutorial! Thanks a lot

[@timmypena241]

I actually made it early to a video lol hope your staying safe brother keep the videos up!

[@conmurph95]

Hi Love the vids, the shortcuts you use honestly make me feel stupid sometimes. The ease you can do some things, and I’m here going the loonnnggg way round. I have a question for you that I can’t seem to find a solution by using forums and google. When I use a summing stack for my tracks, why when I solo an aux, can I not hear the effect? Eg. I have all my drums in a summing stack. I want to add a plate reverb for my snare. When I set it all up and I want to listen to JUST the reverb, there’s no signal? Thank you 🙏

[@vikasjoshim]

Hi i have a rhythm loop which is already pan in left right i want to remove this what i will do ?????

[@yuripadashi]

Great man!! That's the way I've used so far for drums in my music! Just a thing: do you know if it's possible to change the pan for the hi-hat sample for example, that usually is already panned to the right or the left in Logic? I tried to move the pan knob, but it doesn't sound good at all! Do you usually care about that? Thanks!

[@serious1black]

Great tips Dude.....

[@SAE_music]

Pls what the name of the plugin you used for kick and snare

[@jaysauerbass]

Fantastic tutorial

[@jasonweinberg932]

How do you store all your plugins and stuff so your storage doesn’t slow things down?

[@ernstmustermann7181]

Amazing! One question. It is later possible to step back to the beginning to create another Rhythm with the logic drummer. In midi?

[@timbeaton5045]

When you combined the various hihat tracks, could you have used a track stack instead? Means you can treat them as one object, but still edit separate parts?

[@888Eldon]

Love you Josh,thx from China

[@KenBaileykenbailey]

very helpful dude. thank you

[@RodrigoLana]

GREAT!!!

[@nilanshgaur]

Thanks for this amazing video. Do you bounce these in place as audio files before mixing or do you mix these midi stems only? What should be done ideally?. Thanks

[@MusicTechHelpGuy]

If you’re concerned about eating up CPU with multiple instruments up you can bounce them and then just work with them like normal multi track drums.

[@himanshusoni5635]

@@MusicTechHelpGuy thanks for the video, plz make one for how to Route Studio Drummer to Stereo Outs in Kontakt for logic pro x.

[@WaBoo78]

WOW! 😎 short but perfekt!

[@andreagioe84]

thank you so muchhhhhhhhhh genius!!!!!!

[@braincoral9866]

dammit, this was my secret weapon ;) stay safe dude

[@yaoguangtang1759]

Thanks,very useful.

[@jamesorrell7462]

Me: *Watches video* "I should try that out" My Dual-Core i5 CPU: *Cries internally*

[@MusicTechHelpGuy]

Try feeding the instrument tracks after assigning them. Or bounce in place the midi regions so you’re just working with audio.

[@chaosme1ster]

@@MusicTechHelpGuy feeding = freezing

[@doegywhail728]

I tried to do something similar with EZdrummer. Didn’t line up the same for some reason. Maybe I did something wrong.

[@MusicTechHelpGuy]

The note pitches or the rhythm?

[@doegywhail728]

MusicTechHelpGuy note placement like toms or snare hits were in different places than on the map of EZdrummer. Have you tried it yourself?

[@doegywhail728]

Just as a wild example a snare becomes a Tom or open hat is closed for hard closed etc.

[@MusicTechHelpGuy]

@@doegywhail728 Sounds like EZdrummer doesn't follow the GM Drum Map. Most drum instruments do. There's no real easy fix, you just have to manually move each drum to the correct note to match with the map of EZdrummer if that's the case.

[@redsox11]

You might be able to change the EZdrummer map to GM in settings. You can do it in SD3 and both programs are made by Toontrack so it’s likely possible.

[@joemama-vk9qo]

Great topic. The logic drummers are fantastic and so easy to program. The logic drum samples are just not great at all. I got ezd2 and just plug em in. sounds great for cheap. I would love sd3 but it’s not as affordable when ezd has great kits on sale

[@IAmHollow]

check out drumforge, it's on sale for $69 right now

[@HushWave]

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[@devmobray]

Hey Josh, I'm interested to know your Mastering prices , If you do master random single projects still? Couldn't find your email. The track I did is an EDM sort of funk Nu-Disco ISH? Sound. I Don't even know the sub genre . Let me know! Cheers Brayden

[@devmobray]

Also wanted to add and ask if you do analog mastering too? I Can't decide if the track would need analog or digital mastering to warm it up ect. Cheers

[@MusicTechHelpGuy]

@@devmobray I mix and master for a living. To master just a single song, it's $150 US. I do hybrid mastering, a combination of 3rd party plug-ins and analog equipment. However, it really depends on the genre of the song. A rock song for example I'd send through more analog equipment than an electronic track. My email is [e-mail] if you want work done. Thanks.

[@devmobray]

@@MusicTechHelpGuy Great thanks for the Info man! Nice sounds solid 🙏

[@bigshow9743]

Major moves

[@lo2nn]

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[@TenacityProductionT1NO]

dope

[@Thrakatak]

You are just amazing and again - very instructive video!

[@aksdoty2j]

I only recently started doing this..I use spitfire labs drums with logic drummer midis...on the whole it's more realistic than logic drummer... Also fyi labs drums are mapped differently and the velocities dont suit the kit so a few things need to be tweaked here and there..