Transform Desk Tapping Into Programmed MIDI Drum Beats
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- Опубликовано: 2 янв 2024
- We get asked about MIDI Drum Programming an awful lot - here's Kai's super simple method. This isn't an all-encompassing guide, but rather a way for you to get started on your journey.
All drum tones in this video are from ML Drums - try the ML Drums Free plugin for yourself here: ml-sound-lab.com/pages/ml-drums
MIDI Mapping tutorial: • ML Drums MIDI Mapping ... 
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The guitar give me strong early BFMV vibe, love it
That's some high praise! Had to channel some of that early metalcore stuff for this track since it was made for the Block Letter release 😄
-Kai
Great video as usual. I liked the bounce you had on the cymbals before you quantized.
I do think I should play around some more with more gentle quantising strengths - perhaps my internalised rhythms may even lock in with the guitars better. Glad you liked the video 🙏
-Kai
Great video
Thank you! 💪
-Kai
Genuinely interesting. Thanks
Glad you found it useful, thank you for stopping by 🤲
-Kai
Don't know why I've never thought of doing drum midi this way, time to go buy a nanopad and have more fun! lol
Enjoy!
-Kai
Great suggestion! It can be more organic and "real" to program drums in this way, with any pad controller...
I've found that it really helps the velocities especially - faster runs will naturally fluctuate as you accent the main hits. Very similar to how a real drum beat would feel, especially if you use your dominant and non-dominant hands on the pad controller. This is very dependant on the quality of the controller, as some will handle velocities better than others, but I've had great results with the LPD8 and NanoPad2.
-Kai
I always draw the MIDI in like a dummy. I should start doing this with my keyboard in Ableton. Thanks Kai!
It's a lot of fun! Way easier to just tap the rhythms out, especially if you wrote the guitar parts 😄
-Kai
Such a great and informative video! When doing your fills how do you stop the new recording from recording over your other section? Do you create a separate track just for fills and then paste it in?
Glad you liked it! I usually delete the passage, then record just the gap. I've not found a way to loop record MIDI like you can with other instruments, where it'll replace it each loop, so it's just a case of hitting cmd+z and re-taking it until I get one I'm happy with (even happy-ish is cool with me, since I can always tweak the exact fill in the piano roll after recording)
-Kai
This was great! I appreciate you Kai!
How do you get your metronome that loud? Mine in garage band gets buried even at maximum volume
I use Studio One, the metronome has a tonne of volume available - if you're struggling, you can always turn down the rest of the tracks to maximise the click. Most DAWs should also let you bounce the click down to an audio track, this should give you some more available volume from the fader.
-Kai
Nice
Thanks for stopping by 🔥
-Kai
I’ve tried various midi pads over the years such as the Korg NanoPad, but the problem is that the pads aren’t sensitive enough for programming really fast parts via tapping the pads.
I wish someone would make something like this but without all the pad travel and be hyper sensitive to finger inputs.
I did what's called the "tape mod" to my LPD8 and NanoPad2 controllers - pull the controller apart, stick some tape over the pad's sensors and they'll require less force to actuate. More tape = less force. Similar to you, I've found that a lot of pads lose the ghost notes. This mod does quite well, though it does blend together some of the higher velocity hits and has more tendency to be "127 everything" at times.
I think dedicated finger drumming controllers may be worth a look though - Yamaha just released a couple of them that look pretty awesome, and well laid-out for this purpose. FGDP-30 and FGDP-50.
-Kai
Kai, any news about incoporate grooves player and one-shot samples?
Bro, you can always drag any midi directly to the channel/rack/instrument where you have ML Drums loaded... I don't understand why everyone is so insistent on having an internal groove player... Unless it is an advanced groove player, that includes features that allow you to manipulate the midis (such as humanization of notes, randomization, etc.) like Toontrack or BFD... Other than that, honestly, I don't see any need to spend time developing something like that.
Regarding the one-shots, I think it is necessary, and I have discussed it with the ML team. Maybe even take a step ahead of the competition, and allow to create multisamples and/or manipulate their variations (so that the triggers/samples don't sound so static either), all this, without complicating it too much, but giving a little more options than a simple import of a sample. I think the most flexible virtual drum in this aspect is BFD, but it has not been updated for a long time, the other one that allows this is Perfect Drums, but it languishes in many other things... and it is incredible how ML Drums, with so little space can sound much better than the rest of the competition. Anyway, I've already switched to using ML Drums in 99% of my projects. 💪💪💪💪💪
No news that I'm able to talk about I'm afraid - all I can say is what's already been said. We're looking into it, we're asking people about it, and we're gauging the support for it. We want ML Drums to be the best that it can be, so we'll allocate our resources to the areas that will make the biggest improvements! 💪
-Kai
Exactly what I was saying to him, ML Drums is still young and I'm sure much more is to come.... But even with the "youth" of the software it already rivals the rest, I hardly ever use any other virtual drum other than ML Drums. Best wishes Kai!@@mlsoundlab
How did you "quickly quantize that to the grid" on Studio One?
Selecting the notes and pressing Q think 🤔
Exactly that - apologies that I skimmed over that part. Quantising with Q will snap to whatever note division you have set up. I typically set it up for 100% quantisation (fully locked to the grid), and 1/16th notes. When recording with a pad controller, I'm rarely more than a 1/16th note out of time, so the quantise gets everything back to the grid nicely.
-Kai
Hi. What is this midi pad you use here?
Launchpad X
^Correct!
-Kai