In this video I demonstrate my method of (1) assigning drum kit pieces to beat pads, (2) build custom drum kits with Drum Machine Designer, and (3) customize the step sequencer in Logic Pro. Enjoy! 0:00 Introduction 1:48 Assigning Pads with the Learn Function 5:25 Kicks and Snares 9:16 Claps and Snaps 12:01 Hi Hats and Exclusive Groups 15:57 Toms 17:10 Crash and FX 18:48 Save Custom Kit in Library 19:28 Making a Beat with Step Sequencer

This an incredible tutorial, having a dedicated MIDI pad controller to create beats vs. using a keyboard is just exponentially better. I've been using Logic since version 5 and am continually blown away by the amount of knowledge gained from this channel, hands down the best YT channel for digging deep into Logic, thanks so much Josh!

It's scary how familiar you are in the deeper waters of Logic Pro X. Thanks, man.

I don't know what I'd do without your channel man. I've learned and continue to learn so much about Logic here. Thanks so much.

Thank you! That's a great workaround. Just save it as a pre configured-user patch. Really appreciate all the effort you have put in to making this series. :)

great video, I'm still a total logic noob and this demystified a ton of concepts around drums designer

Amazing content as always. Also, that little beat you made at the end is fire!

What a great video. Thank you for helping me learn a basic understanding of how to work my drum pad on my midi controller. I have had it for months and haven't had a lot of time to play with it. Best video I've seen yet.

I used this video as well as the principles in another to create mirror images of the same kit in the bottom 2 quadrants with miscellaneous percussion in the top right. I did this 4 times with the custom slots for an acoustic rock setup, an electronic setup, an orchestral percussion setup and an empty slot I haven’t figured out what to do with yet because of way to many options. I love this channel. Thank you for making music fun.

Fantastic !!!! Been waiting for a video for this made my ffff day

Great viideo! just the perfect amount of detail and straight to the point. Deserves an immediate sub👌

Nice efficient programming Josh..For myself it’s a big part of the creativity. As usual nice work brother. Joe from Staten Island.

This is incredible. Thank you!

Thank you. I have made a couple of attempts to get to grips with DMD but just couldn't. This video showed me exactly where I was going wrong. Think I'll give DMD another try.

Wow! Really helpful! Thanks so much!

GREAT STUFF!!!

suuuper helpful, thanks!!

This is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you! Also, I found that in the Novation Components app, there is a "Factory Custom Mode" that you can add which gives you 4 colored quadrants on the Launchpad, which I like for drum pads. For me, it was Factory Custom Mode number 3. I then mapped everything as you described, but I mapped three of the quadrants just in case I want to use more than 16 pads for some reason. So now, I can tap "Custom" on the Launchpad and it goes into that mode, which looks nicer for drumming than the Notes mode.

Finna tear this up, was just working on assigning pads this morning

sooo helpful thank you so much

EXCELLENT AGAIN...Thanks man..

Thanks a lot, was very helpful

I have no idea what I am doing but that's why I am subscribed 🙏 thanks boss

Wonderful

Very helpful thank you

Josh, thank you so much for this video. After I have my pads assigned how do i use them to record into the Step Sequencer? I have looked everywhere but cannot figure out how to play in my drum parts. My pad (roli block) is working fine and the sounds are accurate and play when I strike the different parts. Thank you.

THANK YOU SO MUCH for another excellent tutorial!! I have a question: how to customize Drum Machine icon's color? mine is all green:(

Thanks Josh

@MusicTechHelpGuy let's say I already have a nice groove in the piano rol, and then I start messing around sorting the pads left, right, up, down. Is it possible to tell DMD to automatically reflect the change in the piano roll as I don't want to go and manually re-edit my groove? That was the feature that made me avoid DMD

This was SUPER helpful dude as always. One little thing I missed though is that I just bought the Arturia minilab recently and somehow the velocity of each pads seems to be extremly small so it requires me to SMASH these pads button to get a normal sounding Kick or snare, however when I play the keys on the keyboard the velocity is way stronger somehow, do you have a recommendation for this situation? How to higher the velocity of the pads so that they are as strong and big sounding as the normal piano keys? Cause right now it makes me wanna use the piano keys more than the pads for drummings which feels kind of wrong ;) All the best! /Ed

Have you tried and utilizing a custom setting on the Launchpad then you can configure it to the exact same notes that the drum designer has so you don't have to do any of that fiddling around

New subscriber here and loving your videos. I am having issues with downloading the full version of LPX. I have gone to the Sound Library Manager and attempted to download "additional content packages" which shows a total of approx. 60GB. They now all now say "installed". However, when I go to my applications folder it is still showing Logic as a 2.04GB program and my macbook is still showing the pre-download storage amount of 80GB. I have tried digging through forums in regards to this but nothing sheds light on this issue. Any ideas what might be happening? Thanks for a great channel!

this may be off topic but im about to get a new midi controller that fits my desk better than my nektar61. do you share the impression that novation gets along better with logic than native instruments controllers ? i have heard this a few times now.

Nice work as always! Pulling my hair out trying to find one of your videos to help me., watched it, now can’t find it ;( I’ve Got a train noise audio file, want to map that Rhythm to pulse baseline in midi. I know you can use flex but how

Can you export each channel as separate audio files for the mix?

All your videos are very helpful. Thank you for all your hard work. Can we layer multiple samples, on one pad, in Drum Machine Designer?

Question on your video productions: how are you recording your live audio (voice, computer, etc.)? I’d use Logic for this myself, but… you’re demoing Logic! Do you have another Logic instance on another computer or something?

Is it possible to add swing to the drum pads or drum designer output or something

What if one pad is playing a random pad (different note) on the board as well? Is there a solution for it?

Hey thanks for the video ! I've got a problem, whenever I'm trying to click on "learn note" my pad doesn't respond to dmd and so it can't control any of the notes and yet my launchpad is well connected to logic because it still controls the live loop mode... Would you have an advice ?

I plan to update to a new Mac soon from an old Mac Pro. Is Ultrabeat obsolete now ? I kind of liked it but figured they may just refresh it. I would be updating from Logic 10.3.2 btw. Thank you for all you do.

Hi, buddy it's Danny B Funman, I've been going crazy looking for a tutorial on how to set up the pads on Arturia Keylab 49 MKII finger drumming, using logic Pro X Drum Designer sounds. So I can assign the drums from logic to the pads please if you can help me with this that would be very helpful. I'm getting my Arturia Keylab 49 MKII Saturday.

hello, I am getting crazy with the following: is it possible to buy a pad and assign the "play botton" (space on the keyboard) of logic? I would like to start project in logic just with one stick shot. One shot play, one shot stop instead of pushing space on my keyboard.. thank you very much for an explanation.. Mattia

Can you explain what sounds you are uploading at the beginning and why?

This helps, but can someone please tell me how to map sounds from one of the stock kits so I don’t have to load in every separate sample? I just want to choose one of the kits and map the kick, snare, ride, HH, etc. to each of my drum pads instead of building the whole kit from scratch...

My drum machine doesnt have the "learn note"... do you know how i could turn this in please?

Hey Josh - just wondering if there’s a quick way to load NI Battery kits and samples into DMD? I can do it by finding each sample in Battery and dragging it into DMD - one at a time - but curious if you had any thoughts on how to load an entire Battery kit. The use case is collaborating with another Logic user who doesn’t have Battery, when we both might be tweaking the drums.

What version of Logic Pro x are you using for this tutorial? Mine does not show the Learn note thing on the pad, and I have seen dozens of these videos, however, I still can't find a way to map my Akai Mini controller's pads to Drum Machine Designer. I am 100% frustrated. If you can help I'd appreciate it hugely!

Hi, thanks for the video. Compliments for speaking with clear pronunciation and showing how. For my taste you focused 10min too long on details how to adjust sound of your samples. I would be more interested in on how you perform with your kit and even use it along with Live Loops to go the step further. So how to record loops by hand? I completely miss this. Suddenly you have your midi pattern there and you did not really show how to create this. So the hole approach creating a midi controller preset and how to integrate into the workflow for creating loops and arrangements is missing. Best regards!

Is this the launchpad that has been specially set up for logic? or just a standard one?

Shout-out to graphic designers for giving this man a custom "snap" icon :p

Have you figured out a way to easily copy and paste drum pads, instead of having to drag the same sample in twice?

bro I'm freaking livid. ive had splice for a while now and it is not working how i see it working for other people haha, so infuriating i can't load presets at all.

Do it only once? True of your custom kits - not true of the delivered DMD kits.

my Drum Machine Designer does not have the "learn note" options and so on, also my drum machine designer does not open out a tree of individual sample tracks. Is it cause I use an older version of it? I use 10.4.1 Logic Pro X

not working on Maschine

this doesn't work for me. I have a novation launch pad s and I can't get it to learn a note.

iPhones are turning into Samsung’s MacBooks are turning into windows Logic is turning into fruity loops….