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In this exercise, you will play a drum region in Cycle mode as you adjust the drummer settings. Next to the presets, an XY pad with a yellow puck lets you adjust both the loudness and complexity of the drum pattern. To undo your most recent Drummer Editor adjustment, press Command-Z. After positioning the puck, you must wait for the region to update update time var- ies depending on your computer.

If you drag the puck constantly, the region will not update. As you position the puck farther to the right, the drum pattern becomes more com- plex; and as you move the puck toward the top of the pad, the drummer plays louder. As he plays louder, he opens the hi-hat and start playing rim shots hitting the skin and the rim simultaneously for accent. You can still hear a lot of syncopation on the kick drums.

The drummer now simply alternates kick and snare on every beat. Listen to the hi-hat: It is currently playing eighth notes. The drummer is playing a fill in the middle of the region before bar 5 and another at the end before bar 9.

You should still see a fill at the end of the region. Each time you adjust a setting in the Drummer Editor, the selected region is refreshed and the drummer plays a new subtle variation. Dragging the Fills knob by a tiny amount is a quick way to refresh a region. You now have a very straightforward beat.

Because the drummer plays less now, he can make the hi-hat ring a bit more. On the drum kit, the hi-hat is now dimmed, while the cymbals are highlighted in yellow. The drummer no longer plays the hi-hat, but instead plays a ride or crash cymbal in that region. You can hear the second region in Cycle mode. The drummer is playing the ride cym- bal on every eighth note.

For a more powerful chorus, you instead want him to play crash cymbals on every beat. You now hear crash cymbals on every beat. Even for a chorus, the beat is a little too busy.

You now have a simple, straightforward beat for the verse, and then the drummer switches to the crash cymbal for the busier chorus pattern. You have carefully crafted two eight-measure drum grooves: one for the verse and one for the chorus. They are the two most important building blocks of the song that you will now start arranging. Arranging the Drum Track In this exercise, you will lay out the whole song structure and continue editing drum regions for each section, still using the two Drummer regions you edited for the verses and choruses.

Using Markers in the Arrangement Track Using the Arrangement track, you will now create arrangement markers for all the sections of your song.

The global tracks open, with the Arrangement track at the top. Also Control-click the Signature and Tempo tracks, and hide them. The Arrangement track is now closer to the regions in the workspace, making it easier to see their relationships.

An eight-measure arrangement marker named Intro is created at the beginning of the song. By default, arrangement markers are eight bars long and are placed one after the other, starting from the beginning of the song. An eight-bar marker named Chorus is created. You will now create a marker for a new intro section and insert it before the Verse and Chorus markers.

A four-measure intro will be long enough, so you can resize the Intro marker before moving it. In the workspace, the Drummer regions move along with their respective arrangement markers.

As with regions in the workspace, you can Option-drag a marker to copy it. Option-drag the Verse marker to bar 21, right after the chorus. The Verse marker and the Drummer region are copied together. The Chorus and the Drummer region are copied together. The song is taking shape. You will now finish arranging the song structure with a bridge, a chorus, and an outro section. As you place the last three markers, continue zooming out horizontally as necessary. A Verse marker is created after the last chorus.

The song structure is now complete, and you can add Drummer regions to fill out the empty sections. New patterns were automatically created for each new Drummer region. Editing the Intro Drum Performance In this exercise, you will make the drummer play the snare instead of the toms.

The Drummer Editor shows its settings. Throughout this exercise you can click the Play button in the Drummer Editor to start and stop playback, or you can navigate the workspace by pressing the Spacebar Play or Stop and the Return key Go to Beginning. The toms are dimmed to indicate that they are muted. In the Intro region, the toms disappear from the top lane.

In the Intro region, snare hits appear next to the kick hits on the bottom lane. To play the kick in only the first half of the intro, followed by the kick and snare in the second half, you will cut the Intro region in two. The region is divided into two two-measure regions.

When a region is divided, the drummer automatically adapts his performance, and plays a fill at the end of each new region. Notice how the crash disappears from the first beat of the following region.

Even though it is in another region, the crash is actually a part of the fill. The snare plays every beat. Now the drummer plays rim clicks at the beginning of the first Intro region, and hits the snare a few times at the end. The drums play a straightforward beat with a fill at the end. Now you will open the hi-hat to add energy to the end of the intro.

The drummer plays the snare on the first eight beats, and then a basic rock pattern with a very open hi-hat adds energy. At bar 5, a crash punctuates the fill at the end of the intro. The straightforward groove continues in the Verse section with the hi-hat a little less open to leave space to later add a singer. Editing the Bridge Drum Performance In a song, the bridge serves to break the sequence of alternating verses and choruses.

Often, the main idea of the song is exposed in the choruses, and verses help support or develop that statement. The bridge can present an alternate idea, a different point of view.

For this fast, high-energy indie-rock song, a quieter bridge in which the instruments play softer will offer a refreshing dynamic contrast. Playing softer does not mean the instru- ments have to play less, however. In fact, you will make the drums play a busier pattern during this bridge. When pressing the Spacebar to play a section, you can use Cycle mode to ensure that playback always starts at the beginning of the section.

The drummer plays at the same level as in the previous sections, but he plays more here. You need to bring down his energy level. When you click the toms, the hi-hat is automatically muted. Aside from the kick and snare, the drummer can focus on the toms, the hi-hat, or the cymbals ride and crash. Kyle is now playing sixteenth notes on the toms, which create a mysterious vibe simi- lar to tribal percussions. You will make him switch from the toms to the ride cymbal in the second half of the bridge to brighten things up.

While the second Bridge region is still selected, you can adjust the cycle area. The toms are muted, and the drummer now plays the ride cymbal. However, the groove still seems to be missing something.

You can hear rim clicks. He plays a crescendo, thereby building up energy to lead into the next chorus. Kyle plays slightly ahead of the beat during the bridge. You will be editing the feel of both Bridge regions simultaneously. At the top of the Drummer Editor, the ruler, Play button, and playhead are hidden because multiple regions are selected. You can now adjust the settings of all the selected regions at once. Settle on a Feel knob position more toward Pull to realize a reasonably relaxed groove.

Kyle now starts the bridge with a busy pattern on the toms, and then moves on to a bell sound on the ride. He uses restraint, hitting softly and behind the beat, with a slight crescendo toward the end. The quiet and laid-back yet complex drum groove brings a welcome pause to an otherwise high-energy drum performance, and builds up tension leading into the last two sections.

That Chorus region was created when you populated the track with Drummer regions earlier in this lesson. The drummer now plays the crash, and this last chorus is more consistent with the previous two choruses. The drummer plays a loud beat, heavy on the crash, which could work for an outro. You will, however, make him play double-time twice as fast to end the song in a big way. Playing double-time at that fast tempo makes the sixteenth notes on the kick drum sound ridiculously fast.

The performance now sounds more realistic while retaining the driving effect of its double-time groove. The drum fill at the end of the outro is now longer.

However, raising the number of fills has the undesirable effect of adding a new fill in the middle of the outro. To remove that fill, you will cut the Outro region in two. You now have two two-bar Outro regions. The outro has the required power to drive the last four measures; however, it seems like the drummer stops abruptly before he can finish his fill.

Usually drummers end a song by playing the last note on the first beat of a new bar, but here a crash cymbal is missing on the downbeat at bar You will resize the last Outro region in the work- space to accommodate that last drum hit. A moment after you release the mouse button, the Drummer region updates, and you can see a kick and a crash on the downbeat at bar The drummer finishes his fill, punctuating it with the last hit at bar You are now done editing the drum performance and can focus on the sound of the drums.

Customizing the Drum Kit When recording a live drummer in a studio, the engineer often positions microphones on each drum. This allows control over the sound of each drum, so he can individually equalize or compress the sound of each kit piece. The producer may also want the drum- mer to try different kicks or snares, or to experiment with hitting the cymbals softer before he begins recording.

In Logic, when using Drummer, the sounds of each drum are already recorded. However, you can still use several tools to customize the drum kit and adjust the sound of each drum. You will study Smart Controls in more detail in Lesson 5. In this exercise, you will use Smart Controls to quickly adjust the levels and tones of dif- ferent drums. The Smart Controls pane opens at the bottom of the main window, replacing the Drummer Editor.

It is divided into three sections: Mix, Compression, and Effects. In the Mix section, six knobs allow you to balance the levels of the drum.

To the right of each knob, a button lets you mute the corresponding drum or group of drums. On the left channel strip in the inspector, the Compressor plug-in is dimmed, indicat- ing that it is turned off. As you drag up the knob, you will start hearing the subtle reverberation of a drum booth.

In the inspector, you can see the Bus 1 Send knob move along with the Tone knob. It allows you to customize the drum kit by choosing from a collection of drums and cymbals and tuning and dampening them. You can also drag Drummer regions to another software instrument track, and they are automatically converted to MIDI regions. You can hear the snare sample. The snare stays lit while the rest of the drum kit is in shadow. To the left, a Snares panel contains your choice of three snare drums, and to the right, an Edit panel includes three setting knobs.

The left panel shows only a limited selection of snares. To gain access to the entire collection of drum samples included with Logic Pro X, you need to choose a Producer Kit in the Library. To the left of the inspector, the Library opens, listing patches for the selected track.

The current patch, East Bay, is selected. The Drum Kit Designer window is reset. Clicking the disclosure triangle displays the individual tracks and their channel strips. You will use Track Stacks in Lesson 5. This time the left pane displays a choice of 15 snare drums use your mouse to scroll down the list. The current snare, Black Brass, is selected. Continue previewing different snares and try listening to a verse or a chorus to hear your customized drum kit in action.

The info pop-up window updates to show you information on the selected kick drum. Listen to the kick drum. This kick is the right choice for your song, but it has a long resonance. Typically, the faster the tempo of the song, the less resonance you want on the kick; otherwise low frequencies build up and could become a problem during the mix.

You may have seen drummers stuff an old blanket in their kick drum to dampen them. In Drum Kit Designer, you only have to raise the dampening level. You will now tune the toms, which are mainly used in the bridge section. You can hear only the low and mid toms. The Edit panel opens with four tabs: All for adjusting settings of all three toms in the kit together ; and Low, Mid, and High for adjusting settings of each individual tom.

You can hear the mid tom being pitched up as Kyle continues repeating the first half of the bridge. If you want, feel free to continue exploring Drum Kit Designer and adjusting the sound of the hi-hat, ride, and crash cymbals.

You have exchanged the snare for another one that sounds a little clearer, dampened the kick drum to tame its resonance, and tuned the mid tom to pitch it a bit higher. You have now fully customized both the drum performance and the drum kit. To select all regions on a track, make sure Cycle mode is off, and click the track header. If Cycle mode is on, only the regions within the cycle area are selected.

At the bottom of the main window, the Piano Roll opens, showing the contents of the selected regions, ready to be edited. Individual drum hit are represented by note beams on a grid, making it easy to select, move, or delete any of them.

You also customized the drum kit to get your desired sound. Lesson Review 1. How do you choose a drummer? How do you choose a new drummer while keeping the current drum kit? Where do you edit Drummer regions? How do you mute or unmute drum parts? How do you make the drummer play softer or louder, simpler or more complex? How do you access the Feel knob to make the drummer play behind or ahead of the beat? Because if you follow this tutorial, you should have to do everything just once and then hopefully your future production life will be easier.

This is an ideal scenario for the majority of us who use Logic Pro X in the same way and for the same kinds of music production, whenever we boot the software up to compose. So stick with us while we guide you through the process of setting up a project, tailoring it to suit you and your music, creating templates and speeding up your workflow. And if you are an experienced user, who knows, you might see Logic in a new light, and you might save time too.

Focus On — Your Audio Interface You will need a decent audio interface when recording with Logic and our tutorial helps you assign and set up a Template project for use with one. You can get really simple ones that allow a couple of tracks to be recorded and played back, or complex multi input and output interfaces that allow entire band performances to be recorded into Logic for editing later.

We will create a new Template file…. Select your audio input device and sample rate from the drop down menus on the left. Similarly you want the main outputs of Logic linked to the speakers that you have connected to the outputs of your interface. All of this is included and you should only have to do this here very often it will already be set up for you.