Love it! Thanks so much for digging into that Jeff :)

wow thats good to know because sometimes the stereo kit blends better

Another way to do this is convert the drum track to midi. Open piano roll and under the piano roll view click show drum names. Then edit the drums to your liking, adding drum hits that may not be in the original drum editor settings. When done go to the tracks view, right click on the drummer midi file and select midi/separate by note pitch. Then you can buss it as you like.

Drummer was honestly in the top 3 reasons I bought a MacBook - needed drummer...needed logic...needed MacBook. Drums are one of the main things that ruin home produced stuff imho when they sound so unrealistic or just looped samples. There’s genius in drummer I think.

#logicforlife

Yeah! To being able to create our own drummers, rhythms, etc. Also AI bassist, Keyboard player, singer, etc. #apple has the power to do so...

A metal drummer style category would be nice - just like you have rock style category and can choose between rock types (punk, Brit pop, hard rock etc.) - the metal style would allow you choose metal styles like thrash, death, power, black (all four would use blast beats and the drummers would have double kick as an option and fast paced kick playing and fills), symphonic (perhaps would use an orchestral kit), brutal/hardcore (like deathcore, metalcore or brutal death, would be able to even use quadruple pedals and be rapid making rapid blast beats), glam (simple but hard), alternative (perhaps using some custom percussion like tambourine), industrial (perhaps may use electronic kits), Gothic, ambient/atmospheric (all three would use roomy and large sounding, atmospheric kits to make it dark and atmospheric), groove (hard hitting beats with a lot of groove), progressive/djent (very fast blast beats and very intricate with lots of double kick and perhaps cymbal muting) doom (very slow,hard hitting beats on the Heavy kit) and, of course classic heavy metal which would just be a heavier and faster rock beat with double bass kicking. It'd be also nice if the drum kit synth allowed us to further customise the setup if the kit, for example, allowing more than one kick drum or different percussion instruments like timpani or cajon to be added to the kit. I would also like to see an option for the drummer to change what beater they use, as that would change the sound of the kit - for example instead of plain old sticks, they could use jazz brushes or timpani mallets or different stick types or just their hands, all of which would affect how the kit sounds (it could be set on automation so the drummer could start off playing with sticks and maybe play the toms with mallets on the choruses and then come back to sticks, then maybe use his bare hands at the end). Similarly to Amp designer, it would also be nice to be able to change how the drums are miced and what microphones are used.

@@RenatoPernett the Singer bit would definitely be amazing. You could write what lyrics you want and set how you want them done - be it spoken, rapped, shouted, sung, screamed, growled, shrieked, whispered etc. You could change the singer's voice - baritone, tenor, soprano etc and how long they hold each note for. You could change singer style too (I.e. a hip hop singer who could sing or rap or shout, or a metal singer who could sing, shout, scream, growl or do vocal effects like pig squeals). It would give way to people who write lyrics but are insecure about their voice, or are not good singers or otherwise don't want to sing.

@@AnkothOfficial exactly! I mean, if we, common sense mortal people, can imagine that, why #apple doesn't make it happen? Got the money, got the mind talented engineers, etc. Are they living in lazytown or what?

@@RenatoPernett I don't think the idea has hit them yet. Or it may also be the case that they fear the elitists who would claim making music like this is "cheating" etc.

Will dude Gunnar, thank you!

Heck yeah Jack! Drummer astounds me with it's versatility. I've heard completed tracks where I had to ask, "is this a real drummer, or Logic's drummer?" And the answer is , "nope, just Logic's Drummer." (!!!)

Thank you for checking out the channel David!

Awesome! Thanks for subscribing Sean :)

No prob Chaplin, thanks for checking out the channel!

Happy to help Julian! Feel free to drop a line if you're looking for help with a particular topic: whylogicprorules.com/contact/

Thanks so much!

Thanks Aaron! You definitely can tap in a general beat using a MIDI controller or with Logic's Musical Typing feature (key command: Command-K). Is that what you're thinking?

Why Logic Pro Rules Not exactly. Thinking something like what addictive drums has where you can input a groove and it will give options that match the feel. Drummer is still great option though considering it's free with logic. It just never sounds exactly like what I heard in my head.

Since the kick and snare are arguably the most responsible for the groove, while the hi hats and cymbals are more responsible for energy, you could just open up a drum kit instrument on a regular midi channel, tap out your groove like you described, and then set Drummer’s follow button to that midi track. Of course, you’d still have to adjust your complexity, toms, cymbals, ghost notes, swing, etc... but the follow button really goes a long way towards giving you custom control over the accent beats.

Thanks for checking out the channel Alfredo!

Thanks Andrew!

Harold McLaughlin that’s sounds extremely interesting! How would I go about doing that?

@@DecontructRecreate It's very easy- What I do is create a new Virtual Instrument track under my Drummer track. I set Addictive Drums as the instrument. I then just option/shift drag the Drummer regions I want down to that track. Addictive Drums (set it to map to Drummer in its settings) will then play whatever Drummer does. You can turn the Drummer track off, or blend it in as you like. I also turn individual AD drums on or off as a track needs- for example maybe I like the snare but turn off the high hat, kick, etc. Aliases work of course with any MIDI instrument or MIDI drum program- I've been using them a lot with the Demo version of Steven Slate Drums- it only gives you one kit to play with, but why not use those sounds as well, as it's a really well recorded kit. Give it a try!

True, but if that's the case, you run the risk of giving the real drummer you're gonna use demoitis. Depending on the track, if I have a real drummer booked, I'd rather give them a spare demo with just the instrument I wrote the tune on, and the vocal, and let them put their voice to it. But for tracks where it's all me, this is a great time saver.

Not only demos or preproduction. Converting the drummer regions to midi regions you can really edit and perfectionate your patterns. More than just some preprod ideas

Yes it is. And the current version is like the Starship Enterprise compared to Notator being a bi-plane.