How To Add Drums To Logic Pro X

Get started with Drummer in Logic Pro

Using Drummer, you tin add a virtual drummer to your project. Y'all can choose from different genres, and choose different drummers in each genre. Each drummer has a specific drum kit and playing style. You tin choose a drummer preset, edit drum settings to adapt the playing mode, commutation pulsate kits, and choose individual drum sounds.

To work with Drummer, yous add a Drummer track to the project. A Drummer rails is similar to a software instrument track, but it contains only Drummer regions, rather than MIDI regions. Both track and region parameters can be edited in the Drummer Editor.

Figure. Drummer region in the Tracks area.

Add a Drummer track

In the Logic Pro toolbar, lick the Add together Tracks button .
Click the Drummer icon (the pulsate kit) at the superlative of the New Tracks dialog.
Click Create.

A Drummer track is added, along with one 8-bar region. The Library opens, and a default patch is loaded to the track.

Choose a genre and drummer

In the Logic Pro Library, click a genre.

The bachelor drummers for the selected genre appear to the right of the genres.
Select a drummer.

A drummer menu appears in the upper part of the Library, showing the drummer's proper noun and a description of the drummer's style.

Cull a different drummer preset

Each drummer includes a diverseness of presets, which appear on the left side of the Drummer Editor.

In the Logic Pro Drummer Editor, click a preset.

A preset consists of a number of region settings, visible to the correct of the presets area.

Play the selected Drummer region using the current preset

In Logic Pro, click the Play button in the ruler at the top of the Drummer Editor.

Adjust the complication and loudness of a preset

In the Logic Pro Drummer Editor, reposition the puck in the XY pad.

The farther correct you place the puck, the more than circuitous the audio becomes; the higher you place the puck, the louder the sound plays.

Choose a pattern variation for a drum or percussion instrument

In the Logic Pro Drummer Editor, do whatever of the post-obit:

For Tambourine, Shaker, and Handclap: Click an instrument, then elevate the Percussion slider or choose an increment.
For Cymbals, Toms, and Hello-Hat: Click a kit slice, and so drag the kit piece slider or cull an increment.
For Kick and Snare: Drag the Kick & Snare slider or cull an increment.

Exchange a pulsate

In the Logic Pro Drummer Editor, click the plug-in button at the bottom of the drummer's card to open Drum Kit Designer.
Click a drum.

The Substitution panel opens to the left if commutation pieces are available for that kit slice.
Click the Info push button of a selected kit slice to view its description.
Click the kit piece that you want to exchange in the Exchange panel. You may demand to scroll in order to discover the 1 you lot desire to utilise.

The piece is exchanged and the respective drum sound is loaded.

Note: The toms and crash cymbals can simply be exchanged as a group.
Click anywhere in the plug-in window background to close the panels.

Edit other performance parameters

In the Logic Pro Drummer Editor, do any of the following:

Drag the Fills knob downward to reduce, or upward to increment, the number and length of fills.

You can click the lock to forestall whatever changes to the fills setting when switching presets or drummers.
Elevate the Swing knob vertically to arrange the shuffle feel of the currently playing pattern.

You can click the lock to foreclose any changes to the swing setting when switching presets or drummers.
Click the Details button to reveal the following knobs:
- Elevate the Feel knob to the correct to have the drummer play alee of the beat (Push button), or to the left to play behind the beat (Pull).
- Elevate the Ghost Notes knob to adjust the level of ghost notes—syncopated snare and kick hits—in the beat.
  
  Note: The presence of ghost notes depends on the chosen drummer and the complexity setting.
- Elevate the Hello-Hat knob to adjust the degree to which the Hi-Chapeau is opened and closed during the drum performance.
  
  Note: This is relevant only if the Hi-Hat is selected in the drum kit representation.

Whatever changes or selections you make in the Drummer Editor affect only the selected region, non the unabridged rail. For more information near using Drummer in your projects, see Overview of Drummer in Logic Pro.