LOGIC PRO X - Drum Replacement Part 2

Following on from last week's session on Drum Replacement, we're looking at another way in which converting detected audio transients into MIDI can be helpful - this time to use your natural sense of groove to build drums by clapping patterns into a microphone. Unlike entering MIDI notes into a Pattern Sequencer or into a grid-like MIDI region, by recording audio, you're recording your own sense of groove. And by converting that sense of groove into MIDI, you're preserving your own natural 'feel' within your beat patterns. Jono's recording a four-bar pattern for Kick, Snare and Hats by clapping each of these parts in one at a time, before converting each to MIDI. He can then use MIDI tools such as Velocity offsets and Quantization to tighten things up if necessary. If you're a drummer, this approach to beat creation might particularly appeal.

00:00 Intro
00:52 Explaing monitoring levels
01:47 Reminder about how audio level converts to Velocity
02:35 Clapping each instrument pattern
04:09 Drum replacement Threshold point
05:25 Kick replacement and Velocity adjustment
07:14 Snare and Hats replacement
08:08 Tidying up tracks and naming regions by tracks
08:45 Assigning Ultrabeat kit to each track
09:42 Applying 50% Quantize strength
10:16 Hi-Hat velocties and final adjustments
11:42 Final considerations including multi-microophone recordings