#MT POWER DRUM KIT GROOVES SOFTWARE#
A New Viewīy default, if you click on a MIDI clip in the main project window, it will open in a fairly conventional-looking piano-roll editor - which should be familiar to anyone who’s used any DAW software before. Of course, most things aren’t set up by default in the way I like them, so in this month’s column I thought I’d take you through some customisations that I find make drum programming easier. Actually, though, Reaper’s MIDI editor can be set up to work in a similar way, and while not everything can be replicated, it boasts some very useful features for composing and tweaking MIDI drum parts. Having grown accustomed to using Cubase’s excellent MIDI Drum Editor through many years (decades, even!) of use, I found that I missed it when I started using Reaper. Reaper’s MIDI Editor can be customised to make programming your drum parts easier. Maybe I've layered an Avatar snare in with another kit or something.1: A MIDI drum loop copied from EZdrummer to a Reaper track and viewed in the default piano roll editor. It's still fairly flexible and you can get plenty out of it, but since I added a few SDXs, I don't think I've used Avatar for anything. That said, the stock Avatar kit that comes with S2.0 isn't particularly raw sounding. Want a big roomy sound for everything but the kick drum? Piece of cake. That said, the fact that you can so easily cheat your way around real-life drum recording/mixing problems is pretty handy. stacking 3 snares to get your 1 sound), the capabilities of the mixer, the built in FX, all the various mic channel options (from memory I think Metal Foundry gives like 4 or 5 mic channels just for the snare), etc., there are a LOT of options to play with. Start a new project, pick one of my kits, the whole kit with all its mixer settings is loaded up. And once I have a kit I like, I save it as a user preset. It might take me a bit of time to put together a kit and get all the sounds right, but it's all part of the writing/recording/mixing process. For me that's not a benefit, and I'd take the flexibility of the sounds and software of S2.0 any day. If you're sequencing from scratch and not using pre-made MIDI grooves and whatnot, you're basically left with the "benefit" of pre-processed sounds that you can just drop into the mix and go. If you want something that's more aimed at being able to just get in there, load up a kit, drag in some grooves, etc., then that's where EZD comes in.
#MT POWER DRUM KIT GROOVES FULL#
Aside from the sounds being better, the software is more flexible, with full mixer, routing, FX, bleed, etc.
If you want the best sound and the best control over the sound, Superior is the way to go. It's not like they're rubbish, just that it's a) not supposed to be their flagship product, and b) aimed at a different kind of user. Although as far as I recall, some of the EZDs are from the same recorded libraries as Superior counterparts, just they're stripped down, 16-bit, and somewhat pre-processed. The Superior libraries are indeed superior to the EZD stuff. However, the "detail" know on EZDrummer2 looks awesome! For adding some additional ghost notes or just humanizing the playing a bit, I would love for them to add this to Superior.Ģ.) Adding your own samples! It would be AMAZING if they could integrate a sample mapping feature like Kontact, but I'd even take being able to load up single shots. In fact the clip in my signature is the kit I am talking about, and thats basically how it sounds coming straight out of Superior.ġ.) I also manually program ALMOST all of the midi performances for my songs. My normal drum sound is 99% mixed coming straight out of Superior Drummer. Some folks hate the plugs that come with Superior Drummer, but I actually use them all the time. My main kit is a frankenstein of the METAL! EZX (snare), Rock Solid EZX (for the huge sounding toms), Metal Machine EZX (kicks, cymbals).Ĥ.) Onboard mixer. Reasons I vote Superior Drummer:ġ.) It allows you to do things with routing/bleed that you cant even do with a real kit and a console which is AMAZING when you really like the sound of a kit but there are minor things you want to alter.Ģ.)You can load the EZXs into Superior and not the other way around.ģ.) You can mix and match kit pieces from all of the different sample packs with the Xdrum feature. I was using SSD4 also before I switched over to Superior Drummer.
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