In this video, I demonstrate the following: 1. How to load Drum Machine Designs kits. 2. How to customize drum sounds with the Pad Controls in DMD. 3. How to swap out kit pieces in DMD using Logic' drum library. 4. How to swap pads for custom samples. Support the sponsor of this video, Boombox | bit.ly/boomboxsponsor For mixing/mastering work, contact me at my website | carneymediagroup.com Follow MusicTechHelpGuy on Instagram | instagram.com/musictechhelpguy Support the channel on Patreon | patreon.com/musictechhelpguy Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 1:07 Sponsor Segment 1:43 Loading DMD, Kit Pieces 3:56 Track Stack Routing 5:54 Swap Kit Pieces 7:29 Step Sequencer 11:04 Effects & Pad Controls 14:07 Drag & Drop Samples 16:13 Final Result
This is a very clear video - I'm coming from Ableton and has to learn Logic because of some work in another context. I have been really struggling to find great videos that goes into the instruments the way you do - this was very helpful! Thanks a lot :)
I can’t believe how much this program can do now. When I was working with an analog 16 track and 2” tape I new digital would be cool but I never thought this far ahead. Glad somebody did. I get a lot from the videos.
But it all sounds the same. The unique characteristics of degradation naturally occurring during recordings on magnetic tape using analog cords to run that audio through a real board creates Living breathing recordings with individuality that is palpable. Digital is all the same and hits differently.
Nice. Aside from a little confusion at the beginning, this is a good, straightforward walkthrough of Logic's DMD. It's a lot cleaner then I remembered. Learned a lot in a hurry. Finding out about the Step Sequencer is very helpful. Subscribed.
Hey Josh! You can explain things so very very good and clear!! You make it very easy for me!!! Thank you so much for your work and thank you for sharing your knowledge. Wish you and your family happy easter and blessings!!! Dejan
Josh, I’m going to have to watch 46, 47 and 48 over and over again. Not because it’s confusing, but because I don’t want to miss a single feature! The other day I tried to add drums to a project and after a while… decided to watch some TV. 🤦🏻 Suddenly, you make it all appear so easy. Thanks and as always, great stuff! Gianni❤
Excellent tutorial - as always! Two things I was unaware of: the relationship between DMD and Quicksampler (if I want mess with envelopes, etc. I can do so right in DMD) and the relationship between DMD’s controls and the Mixer. I like the larger scale in DMD. Thanks! Onward to Part 2 . . .
Great instruction, once again. I did notice an editing mistake. At around 15:09, you first say drag the sample onto Quick Sampler, but then you say onto Drum Machine Designer. I think you meant to delete the first one, but maybe not.
Great stuff, thanks! I was surprised, though, that if I create a pattern using step sequencer, it only shows up on the track stack folder track; none of the tracks in the stack are populated. Is there a way to get this to happen, so I can keep the parts separate?
Great video.. That next one gone be good.. lol.. IF you can make stems with one swipe instead of doing it individually after separating the midi notes. MANNNNNN!!!!!
Fyi: To see the DMD instrument displayed as a foldable stack in the mixer, you must have the mixer's "tracks" view selected...you will not be able to fold the channels in "all" view.
Hi Josh, I’m rewatching all the DMD videos for using the step sequencer and kit pieces. I’m referring to #47, #48 and #11 videos. I have two questions: First, in #11 the pattern region you opened is “yellow” and in #47 the pattern you open is “blue”. Curious as why that is? Second, when opening a pattern region, what determines its length ( number of bars/beats)? Is it set by my audio or instrument region or by the time I set such as: 4/4 in the project? Happy 4TH (count all your fingers) 💥🖐🏼 Gianni❤
Incredible App, this Logic. What‘s the difference between the DMD and the drummer? So far I used only the drummer. I knew nothing about DMD, respectively didn’t work with it. Perhaps #48 will answer my question a little. Thanks a lot. But after having seen this, it more and more turns out that I‘m even less than a beginner. 😒. About 35 years ago I had those drum machines of Roland (R 5) and Yamaha (?) with really good sounding electronic drum kits which I‘d like to have again, as I can‘t find super sounding electronic toms here. Or are there any?
DMD is really meant for loading in and working with electronic drum kit samples; whereas, Drummer tracks are really just meant for generating drum patterns in different styles. While Drummer does have a few electronic "drummers" the scope of sounds is limited. Those electronic drummers actually use the DMD kit, while the acoustic drummers use Drum Kit Designer. So You can think of Drummer like a track feature that is one level higher than DMD. If you scroll download the list of electronic drum kits in the library, you'll see some options for some classic drum machines -- Roland CR78, TR606, 707, 808, 909, TR-727, CR-8000 and Simmons SDS-V. You could start with those. Although if you have a particular drum machine in mind, you could check and see if anyone has sampled these kits? If you can get the samples, you could load in all the samples into DMD and build your own version of your old drum machines in Logic.
@@MusicTechHelpGuy thanks for this extensive answer. At least I still have the Roland R5. I shall see if I can get the electronic sounds work for me in Logic. 👍🏻
My drum machine designer fails to load any kit at all tried reinstalling the sound library, logic pro itself and a lot more kindly help!! it just freezes when I try to load any kit like 808 flex, above and beyond and so on.. I am on a macbook pro m1 pro 2021 with sonoma...
You say 36 kit pieces, but 16 x 3 is 48, not 36. It’s a shame that Apple didn’t make it 8 pages (or pad banks) to make 128 sound locations to match Ableton Live’s Drum Rack or ImpactXT in Studio One by PreSonus. Bit of a missed opportunity, but hopefully it’ll change in the future!
How true! Love the video series. I’ve been a Logic user since mid-1994 on the Atari ST and since March 2002 on the Mac. I find dragging a sample to Quick Sampler, cropping the sample to reduce the number of slices in a long loop (or reducing them via the threshold) first and then sending it to DMD that way best to avoid running out of pad slots. It’s the best workaround, but hopefully, if enough people give Apple feedback, they might up the number of pad slots in the future!
In this video, I demonstrate the following:
1. How to load Drum Machine Designs kits.
2. How to customize drum sounds with the Pad Controls in DMD.
3. How to swap out kit pieces in DMD using Logic' drum library.
4. How to swap pads for custom samples.
Support the sponsor of this video, Boombox | bit.ly/boomboxsponsor
For mixing/mastering work, contact me at my website | carneymediagroup.com
Follow MusicTechHelpGuy on Instagram | instagram.com/musictechhelpguy
Support the channel on Patreon | patreon.com/musictechhelpguy
Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
1:07 Sponsor Segment
1:43 Loading DMD, Kit Pieces
3:56 Track Stack Routing
5:54 Swap Kit Pieces
7:29 Step Sequencer
11:04 Effects & Pad Controls
14:07 Drag & Drop Samples
16:13 Final Result
This is a very clear video - I'm coming from Ableton and has to learn Logic because of some work in another context. I have been really struggling to find great videos that goes into the instruments the way you do - this was very helpful! Thanks a lot :)
Brother, I love you. I have watched this entire series thus far. My life has improved immeasurably.
Thank you MTHG! :) Your tutorials are the best! So clear, concise and detailed. A home run every time! 🙏
Thanks!
I can’t believe how much this program can do now. When I was working with an analog 16 track and 2” tape I new digital would be cool but I never thought this far ahead. Glad somebody did. I get a lot from the videos.
But it all sounds the same. The unique characteristics of degradation naturally occurring during recordings on magnetic tape using analog cords to run that audio through a real board creates Living breathing recordings with individuality that is palpable. Digital is all the same and hits differently.
Bruh, you have the best Logic Pro Tutorial on the Web right now....Thanks for hooking us up!!!!
Nice. Aside from a little confusion at the beginning, this is a good, straightforward walkthrough of Logic's DMD. It's a lot cleaner then I remembered. Learned a lot in a hurry. Finding out about the Step Sequencer is very helpful. Subscribed.
Great video, really comprehensive, much better than the others on RUclips :)
Hey Josh! You can explain things so very very good and clear!! You make it very easy for me!!! Thank you so much for your work and thank you for sharing your knowledge. Wish you and your family happy easter and blessings!!! Dejan
Josh,
I’m going to have to watch 46, 47 and 48 over and over again. Not because it’s confusing, but because I don’t want to miss a single feature!
The other day I tried to add drums to a project and after a while… decided to watch some TV. 🤦🏻
Suddenly, you make it all appear so easy.
Thanks and as always, great stuff!
Gianni❤
Thank you so much. This clears some things up for me regarding the channels and effects
Loved this
Excellent tutorial - as always! Two things I was unaware of: the relationship between DMD and Quicksampler (if I want mess with envelopes, etc. I can do so right in DMD) and the relationship between DMD’s controls and the Mixer. I like the larger scale in DMD. Thanks! Onward to Part 2 . . .
Thank you so much for sharing. It's beneficial and I learnt a lot from your creation.🙏🏻🙏🏻
great video thanks u so much
Extremely helpful! I've to admit, that I buld my own DMD from Quicksampler instances within a folder. What a pain... Thanks 🙂
APPRECIATED!
Great instruction, once again. I did notice an editing mistake. At around 15:09, you first say drag the sample onto Quick Sampler, but then you say onto Drum Machine Designer. I think you meant to delete the first one, but maybe not.
Great tutorial. Question: How do you make the macro control for reverb to control a send rather than a plug in?
Great stuff, thanks! I was surprised, though, that if I create a pattern using step sequencer, it only shows up on the track stack folder track; none of the tracks in the stack are populated. Is there a way to get this to happen, so I can keep the parts separate?
Hey man how do I set the bpm and key for the drums
Great video.. That next one gone be good.. lol.. IF you can make stems with one swipe instead of doing it individually after separating the midi notes. MANNNNNN!!!!!
Fyi: To see the DMD instrument displayed as a foldable stack in the mixer, you must have the mixer's "tracks" view selected...you will not be able to fold the channels in "all" view.
Hi Josh,
I’m rewatching all the DMD videos for using the step sequencer and kit pieces.
I’m referring to #47, #48 and #11 videos. I have two questions:
First, in #11 the pattern region you opened is “yellow” and in #47 the pattern you open is “blue”. Curious as why that is?
Second, when opening a pattern region, what determines its length ( number of bars/beats)? Is it set by my audio or instrument region or by the time I set such as: 4/4 in the project?
Happy 4TH (count all your fingers) 💥🖐🏼
Gianni❤
Incredible App, this Logic. What‘s the difference between the DMD and the drummer? So far I used only the drummer. I knew nothing about DMD, respectively didn’t work with it. Perhaps #48 will answer my question a little. Thanks a lot. But after having seen this, it more and more turns out that I‘m even less than a beginner. 😒. About 35 years ago I had those drum machines of Roland (R 5) and Yamaha (?) with really good sounding electronic drum kits which I‘d like to have again, as I can‘t find super sounding electronic toms here. Or are there any?
DMD is really meant for loading in and working with electronic drum kit samples; whereas, Drummer tracks are really just meant for generating drum patterns in different styles. While Drummer does have a few electronic "drummers" the scope of sounds is limited. Those electronic drummers actually use the DMD kit, while the acoustic drummers use Drum Kit Designer. So You can think of Drummer like a track feature that is one level higher than DMD. If you scroll download the list of electronic drum kits in the library, you'll see some options for some classic drum machines -- Roland CR78, TR606, 707, 808, 909, TR-727, CR-8000 and Simmons SDS-V. You could start with those. Although if you have a particular drum machine in mind, you could check and see if anyone has sampled these kits? If you can get the samples, you could load in all the samples into DMD and build your own version of your old drum machines in Logic.
@@MusicTechHelpGuy thanks for this extensive answer. At least I still have the Roland R5. I shall see if I can get the electronic sounds work for me in Logic. 👍🏻
is it safe to say that DMD is the Logic's version of an Ableton drum rack?
👍👍👍
My drum machine designer fails to load any kit at all
tried reinstalling the sound library, logic pro itself and a lot more
kindly help!!
it just freezes when I try to load any kit like 808 flex, above and beyond and so on..
I am on a macbook pro m1 pro 2021 with sonoma...
You say 36 kit pieces, but 16 x 3 is 48, not 36. It’s a shame that Apple didn’t make it 8 pages (or pad banks) to make 128 sound locations to match Ableton Live’s Drum Rack or ImpactXT in Studio One by PreSonus. Bit of a missed opportunity, but hopefully it’ll change in the future!
Whoops! that was definitely a math mistake. LOL Well I guess most musicians can only count to 4, and on rare occasions 7.
How true! Love the video series. I’ve been a Logic user since mid-1994 on the Atari ST and since March 2002 on the Mac. I find dragging a sample to Quick Sampler, cropping the sample to reduce the number of slices in a long loop (or reducing them via the threshold) first and then sending it to DMD that way best to avoid running out of pad slots. It’s the best workaround, but hopefully, if enough people give Apple feedback, they might up the number of pad slots in the future!
Thanks!