Use your ears and not your eyes when applying this method. This has been so easy to do, and being that you can control the percentage and mix amount of the compression being used, you can use it for just a little bump in the mix or some serious squashing. So instead of using a multi-output drum setting with each drum kit element on its own track, then routing/busing each drum element to an auxiliary track and inserting a compressor on that channel, I’m just putting a stock compressor at the end of the signal chain on the stereo dum track and parallel compressing on the stereo drum track. I’ve also been experimenting lately with a simpler method for adding parallel drum compression to the stereo mixed drum track. Any Drummer track can easily be converted to midi and used to trigger any other drum kit or samples. Compared to the steep learning curve associated with other apps and programs, Drummer is a no brainer for live sounding drums, and its also available in GarageBand. I don’t know how they do it, but those little vector based rendered images are another great tool for producing music. I was a Pro Tools engineer for 11 years before switching to Logic 7 ten+ years ago, and X’s drummer is definitely a force to be reckoned with. The drums sounds in X are also very good, and often times I’ll run some kind of drum loop behind the drums using Logic’s Ultrabeat program, either to stack some parts or to hype the chorus. You can also go back and forth between midi/drummer regions and edit further, which Graham has covered before. Depending on the style of music for the song, it can sound better than trying to write a beat or using loops. Ive been using it more and more on demos lately just because its so intuitive, and I can get a vibe going really quick with it. Logic Pro X’s Drummer program is ridiculously cool.
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