The Producer Kits, which are available via the Channel Strip Library, are Multi Output versions of the Stereo Kits, complete with all the mix settings (including compression, EQ and reverbs) for each channel. While some third-party solutions might offer extra choice when it comes to kit pieces, there’s little doubt that the combination of a Multi Output Drum Kit Designer and Logic’s audio plug-ins actually exceeds what can be delivered on rival solutions. While other virtual-drumming solutions pack a lot into a single plug-in, the elegance of Drum Kit Designer means that it can fully integrate the instrument into your working environment with the minimum of fuss, moving between the immediacy of a Stereo instance for basic programming activities, to a fully-fledged Multi Output kit when it comes to mixing. Likewise, parallel compression can be fed just from the kick and snare channels, which is a great way of adding power and body to the kit without sacrificing transient detail or the sound of the cymbals. Rather than applying reverb wholesale (as you would in Stereo mode), the use of reverb can be directed – either adding a touch more room to the overheads, say, or following an 80s production ethic and applying a lot of reverb to just the snare. In addition to compression and EQ, you’ll also want to look at using bus sends from the individual channels, either to add ambience effects, like delay and reverb, or treatments like parallel compression. Use the VCA modes for lighter compression, while the Vintage FET compressor works well on channels where you want to add a more characterful compression sound, particularly on the snare or room mics. In that respect, it’s well worth playing with the different models found on Logic’s compressor and contrasting those with different parts of the kit. Compression and EQ are important tools in this application – EQ to change thetonal colour of each kit element, and compression to control dynamics and add body to the kit. The real benefit of the Multi Output kit is the ability to apply unique processing to each kit part. Mixing with Drum Kit Designer is much the same as mixing a real kit – creating a close mic’d 70s sound with an emphasis on the spot mics, or something more ambient and roomy with a bias towards the room mics.
In Multi Output mode, triggering the snare will play back samples across multiple channels, including snare top and bottom mics, the overheads, room mics and the bleed as the snare ‘spills’ onto other mics on the kit. To access the extra channels, you’ll need to press on the small + icon in the mixer area, with 16 outputs all accessible. You’ll also notice some extra parameters in Drum Kit Designer’s edit pane, including the option of adding leak between mics, as well as switching the kit elements between two different room mics. In Multi Output mode, you get significantly more drum kit elements to play with and, more importantly, access to individual faders for each part of the kit – and the all-important room mics. You can select this mode when you first load up the instrument, rather than picking the CPU and RAM-light Stereo mode (which is what a new Drummer track defaults to). The real power behind Drum Kit Designer comes when it’s run in Multi Output mode. In addition to Tune, you’ll also find a Dampening control, which rolls off some of the high-end and reduces sustain, and a basic Gain control. Easily the most important parameter is Tune, which lets you raise or lower the pitch of the drum – making a snare crisper with a higher tuning, for example, or a kick drum flabbier with lower tuning. Once you’ve loaded a kit element, you can then tweak a number of editable parameters on a per kit-piece basis.
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To gain complete access to Logic’s full range of kit elements, ensure you’ve downloaded the Multi-Output Kits as well as the Producer Patches. The ‘Designer’ element, of course, lets you build a customised kit using a variety of multisampled components – kicks, snares, toms and cymbals – that can be selected from drop-down kit piece menus on the left-hand side.
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