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Just create a drummer region on a regular midi-track and feed the midi to your favorite plug-in
The drums are mapped to GM standard...
If you want to 'change the style' create a new drummer track and change the style and drag the midi to the track that is mapped to your plug-in.
This as changing the style automatically loads a new drum-kit.
If you set the drummer region to "Keep Drum Kit when changing drummers" you can now have multiple drummers on one track too.
Thanks, I missed that
That is one of the coolest features.
Is it possible to change the default iPad project location to not iCloud? I’m really keen on transferring projects back and forth between iPad and desktop but am often in sketchy WiFi and have had some files not upload correctly when saving or opening on the iPad especially.
Seems like maybe saving locally and sending the project between devices via airdrop might be better?
Just copy the file into a local folder after you save it. Duplicates don't take up extra storage. You can always airdrop from the iCloud folder too. It's effectively a local folder, it just also uploads (plus it can be purged if there's a copy in the cloud, so good to copy to a local folder if you don't want to run the risk of a file you need having been purged when you have no access to wifi to re-download it!)
Apple doesn't specify the master output volume they prefer, but under their Apple Digital Masters program they have tools to verify there's no clipping when they convert it to 256kbps AAC files. It's up to the user to set the appropriate volume to achieve that, and send in the files preferably in 24bit format at higher sample rates.
Or not. Neither Apple nor Spotify require files be sent in following any sort of specifications. You can send in a clipped wall of 8bit noise if you want
Cool - thanks!
Oh nice pretty cool update. What’s the deal with the mastering assistant? Is it all AI like in BandLab?
Glad to see an update dropped. Don’t think I’m gonna resub (don’t have the space until I upgrade iPads next month anyway) but this makes it a lot more tempting. Gonna have to watch some videos on the new update and features.
Nice nice…FAC is BAC in me projects
Nice!
The only gotcha is that Drummer Tracks use the GM mapping so a bit of care needs to be taken with mapping the sounds
Thankfully one of my all time favorite drum synth apps (Ruismaker) has a toggle to use GM mapping.
For the lazy ones!
This was already possible, but you had to hack your way around. You couldn’t add a drummer sequence to a Drum Machine Track, you had to do it elsewhere, then copy. It would also want to constantly replace the drum instrument, where now it warns you. Drummer is a lot more usable and stable now. I’m loving it.
One small issue I’m having with note mapping, hope someone might help me. When using Drummer sequences, it uses Low Tom on A1. The GM midi drummer thing must have been done by an 80’s heavy metal drummer cos there’s a shit ton of toms. So “Floor Tom” is F1, that’s the one I always use, and how it’s provided in about every drum library. Who would have a Low Tom without a Floor Tom?. But Logic uses the “Low Tom” on A1.
I want to remap A1 to F1 so both point to the Floor Tom and I don’t have to duplicate. There’s even a Scripter preset called “Drumkit Designer Remapper” which sounded like the ticket. Except there’s no midi on the Drum Machine Designer!?. So there’s no way to do anything “globally” on the kit before the midi gets to the individual kit pieces.
There's a preset in the MIDI Scripter MIDIfx plug-in to map the drums. Once you've made a map you can save it as a preset (either in the scripted itself, or you can also save the track preset to load the drum instrument ready mapped)
But, the new functionality in Drummer to external AUv3 is that you don’t have to convert the Drummer track to MIDI for use with external drum/instrument AUv3:s (now we have the the wavetrack left) - therefore we are still able to edit every parameter in the Drummer editor…
Any misunderstanding here from my point of view?
The 'new' thing in 1.1 is that it's possible to add a new 'Drummer Region' to any track using the existing instrument/output.
It has always been possible to convert a drummer track to midi and move the midi to any track.
Ah, ok… I believe I only tried playing Drummer sequences in a DMD with Drambo loaded… same thing?. And it didn’t work like it does now, you had to do it a very hacky way, you couldn’t create a Drummer region, but you could still edit the Drummer. Can’t even remember how I did it, I believe I had to create the region on a regular Drummer track and then copy over.
Hmmm…
In this video (on Mac and the new 10.8) he’s showing what I mean that’s new…
Time 18.30
That is what I also partially what I meant
You can create a 'Drummer Regions' on any track and retain the drummer editing capabilities, just need to make sure to retain the kit when you change the 'drummer style' to avoid it having automatically replace the currently used instrument.
I do wish the Midi Scripter plug-in in the iOS version would gain a bit more editing capabilities not to mention the 'big' sampler which already looks like it's made for touch...
One cool feature of the drummer is it lets you quickly make your own breakbeat style loops (Amen style) for chopping up and depending how you process it can sound pretty great.
Make a drummer track, get the beat how you want it (over use lo-fi and vinyl plugins to make it sound old if you like) then drag the region into a blank track and use quick sampler to automatically chop it up, then play it back via the keyboard like it's 1993. add reverb so when you chop it you also chop the 'verb
Another thing to try before you chop it, convert the drummer region to a chromatic sample then play it at a different pitch (Octave up for the traditional double speed effect). Record a few bars of that in a midi region, bounce that region then chop it and you have that classic DnB/Jungle cut up pitched loop.
So if you want a 160 bpm break, set the project to 80 bpm, make your drummer beats then convert to sampler track, play one octave up and you'll get a 160bpm breakbeat. Convert that to a sliced sample and you have your own AMEN style breakbeat.
@Samu @klownshed and @ErrkaPetti Thank you! Using drummer regions like this is very cool.
Really wish Fred Anton Corvest (FAC) had used this GM drum map when he designed FAC Drumkit.
Yes you're right - Spotify make recommendations but they don't actually enforce any requirements.
So a wild question of value. If you were to buy the new master AI plugin on its own what do you think the value would be? It’s free in Logic desktop but part of our subscription. Would that be something you would buy on its own as an plugin for iOS?
Sure, there are numerous companies which offer "mastering" plugins now. For example, there's Ozone 11... for $399.00 at Pluginboutique.
https://www.pluginboutique.com/product/2-Effects/50-Mastering-/11114-Ozone-11-Advanced
There's T-RackS 5 Max, which is absurdly priced at $79.99 right now...
https://www.ikmultimedia.com/products/index.php?A=t-racks-5-max-v2&R=INIT
But I have T-RackS 5 and it's a huge pain to use, especially if you are not very well-versed in every aspect of traditional studio mixing and mastering.
Apple's little mastering plug-in destroys all of these, as long as you've taken the time to get your mix correctly balanced and fine tuned, which nearly everyone should be able to do as long as they take the time to really listen and compare their mix against other professionally mixed music.
This is a pretty similar plugin for desktop (also available as a sub)
£224 on sale. £299 list.
https://www.pluginboutique.com/product/2-Effects/50-Mastering-/11463-LANDR-Mastering-Plugin
I think Apple's built-in "Mastering" button is going to put a lot of plug-in companies out of business. I'm hardly touching anything in the mixing and mastering arena from IK Multimedia now.
I think I will ‘remaster’ some recent songs I’ve done (I mixed down to 2-track before mastering so it should be really easy to get a 1:1 comparison) to compare the new assistant to my best efforts.
Will be interesting to see how badly I did against Logic’s assistant
I can post comparisons if anybody is interested…
Previously I’ve been using TDR Limiter 6 on desktop along with TDR EQ and compressor. Sometimes I will also use IK Multimedia tape plugin too although my ears can rarely tell the difference with that one ;-)
I have most of IK T-Racks which I did use for mastering but there are way too many choices and variables. As soon as I tried TDR there was no going back.
And now I think I’ll probably just use the new logic assistant as I don’t really enjoy ‘mastering’ and on first impressions the assistant sounds pretty great instantly.
it’ll be interesting to see what the assistant does with my recent mixes…
Wait am I misunderstanding or can you use the drummer to sequence other AUV3 drum apps? Are isn’t basically just copying the midi to a track and then replacing drummer with something like DrumKit, Ruismaker, etc?
Before you had to convert to midi. Now you can use the actual, editable drummer regions. So you can tweak and adjust and add parts all using drummer regions. And you can have multiple drummers per track — one for verses another for the choruses for example.
Just a nice little quality of life improvement.