Make your MIDI programmed drums sound PRO

[@anselma2894]

Man simply in love with this tuorial and VST... Extremely well oriented and delicate!

[@ilovenomorepoetry]

man that intro is about smooth as hell man. Had to replay it about 7+ times. Hands-down best KZbin intro "jingle" i've EVER heard

[@JonMeyer]

Oh wow! thanks!

[@amaxlevin]

I purchased Soft Drums. I have never had, nor thought I would ever have, a drum library that would inspire me to start writing. It happened! Tremendous work, Jon. Cheers to all involved in creating this beautiful instrument!

[@JonMeyer]

Wow. Thanks, Andrew! Are you cool if use this quote for promotional material? It made me smile.

[@amaxlevin]

@@JonMeyer Of course, I would honored to be included in promotion of your work. Best

[@JonMeyer]

@@amaxlevin Thanks! I added your quote to the Soft Drums page of my website...www.jonmeyermusic.com/softdrums

[@DanielHolter]

The Waves Scream™ 😂🎖

[@jimsanger]

Cool sounding track. The other day I was driving and a song came in my head I couldn't place, then I realised it was your reverb and delay song :) I'm really lazy with drums, one of the few things I rarely bounce down. I often only separate the kick so I can duck the bass.

[@शिव_सागर]

Thank you very much sir! 🙂🙏

[@stevescooking]

I purchased “The Feathered Flute” on spitfire. Sounds amazing buddy, great work. New sub Steve

[@JonMeyer]

Thanks, Steve!

[@mchest7000]

Loving the sound of soft drums :) :)

[@AndyMangele]

Apart from the content I like the way your videos are edited and presented.

[@noodletribunal9793]

im kinda proud of myself cause i figured out all of this on my own! even to the point of isolating the different mics! now if only i knew what to do with all my great drum tracks lol. at least a mixer would appreciate it

[@rraawk00]

i don't even make music but i want to go buy Soft Drums. nice work, Jon!

[@ittou]

I really dig the sound of Soft Drums. But, I wish the library have a feature to route each output individually, like in every drum VST (EZD, Superior, Addictive, etc). So the user doesn't have to create multiple channels like what you did.

[@JonMeyer]

That would be nice. The plug-ins you mentioned are not for Kontakt. What Kontakt instruments do you use that implement this feature in an efficient way?

[@ittou]

@@JonMeyer There's some Kontakt library drum that can route multiple output. For example Native Instruments Studio Drummers and DS Drum - RCS Essential (freebies).

[@SugarpillProd]

​​@@JonMeyer I know with the GGD libraries you can route each track to different channels within Kontakt, and then route them out of Kontakt to your DAW - which I think is what the above commenter was asking for. I believe the Abbey Roads drums would allow this too, though it's been awhile since I've used them, so I could be wrong.

[@motomuso]

Another good one Jon Meyer.

[@lib747]

Lovely sounding drums! I don't use ProTools (or Waves :) but wonder if there is a way in ProTools to do a multi out from Kontakt, and use the individual audio outs as inputs on a subgroup (kick, snare, hh...). My Bitwig template that does all that. I usually start with method I, and then record individual audio tracks when I'm mostly happy with the starting point. Most importantly, it's easy to go back and forth - re-enable the drums instrument/midi track, make changes, and re-record audio parts I'm not entirely happy with.

[@paulkerriage4470]

Pretty much what I do. (1) Midi Drum VST on one track, send multi outs to sub-group of 5 tracks (kick, snare, hat, toms, cymbals ) then each track sent to one drum bus. (2) EQ, comp on each track, final EQ and comp on drum bus.

[@lib747]

@@paulkerriage4470 that's exactly my setup, and you described it way better.

[@patkelly8309]

Hi Jon. Great video. I realise you're all about the Soft Drums but do you have any experience with BFD3? If so what is your opinion. I'm new to it and multi-sampled drums in general. Not so much the 'realness' of the groove but the inclusion of overheads and multiple mic set-ups. Any advice appreciated.

[@francoallotey1098]

What Mic do you use for you vocals Jon?

[@tshrdrums]

Can you not just route out into separate channels? Is that a pro tools limitation or plugin limitation?

[@sholeetunes]

Damn..these drums sound great, but I don't have Kontakt. Would it be possible to get it for Decent Sampler or at least Slate Trigger?

[@BustaMovePurkinz]

Thank god Studio One and MPC has an EXPLODE features 😢

[@ggeessttaalltt]

Why not just route them out of kontakt’s outs to different channels within your DAW instead of copying and duplicating all this stuff? Most libraries will let you do this and it’s much faster and easier on your processor. Best of all worlds. You can keep your stereo mix on one channel and mute it, print em all, or keep ‘em live without much additional overhead compared to running a zillion instances of the same plugin.

[@PeteMel1875]

Way too much work!