Assigning midi drum track to drummer track

Is it possible to take a midi drum track and assign it to drummer track?

Hi
Eriksimon wrote:
then ctrl-click and convert.
Copying the MIDI regions to an empty Drummer track works fine, but caution regarding Convert to Drmmer Regions: this will erase any MIDI programming previously done
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Save custom drum settings for Drummer track?

Hi guys. Wondering if there is a way to save the Drummer region settings from one project and use them in another project without manually setting things like complex, loud, fills, etc. THanks.

"Save Drummer Presets" is a feature that is only available in Logic but not in GarageBand. Here is screenshot with both GarageBand and Logic open. You can see that the Action Menu (the one with the gear icon) is not available in GarageBand.
The good news is (in case you use Logic and GarageBand), all the Drummer Prests you save in Logic are also available in the Presets Menu in GarageBand. They are stored in the the following directory:
~/Music/Audio Music Apps/Drummer/Presets/"Name of the Drummer"/.... .dpst
The presets are stored as XML files with the file extension .dpst.
If you have a Logic friend who can saved cool presets, you can copy his files into your Drummer folder and GarageBand can see them. If you more interested in a "science project", you can duplicate a dpst file, open it in BBEdit and edit your Preset numerically.
A lot of details and more information (from basic to more advanced) about GarageBand are found in my new manual "GarageBand X - How it Works", the only comprehensive manual available for GarageBand.
Hope that helps
Edgar Rothermich
http://DingDingMusic.com/Manuals/
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Separate Midi Drums To Different Tracks?

Hi,
I have just programed my midi drums on an instrument track.
Is there way to separate the snare, kick drum to separate midi tracks other than manually doing so?
Thanks for your help in advance.
Darren.

Make copies of your drum Instrument track (shift+return) - copy/option drag the regions to the copied tracks - select highest and lowest not in the Inspector of your regions - so kickdrum lowest/highest note C1/C1 - snare D1/D1 - and so on.
Even faster way is to go to the region menue in the Arrange->Split/seperate->separate different pitches (translated form my german menue)
every note will be split up into a new region so you'll have a region with kickdrums/snares and so on.
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Editing Drummer tracks?

So far, I like the Drummer feature - bought the extra pack, have been playing around with arrangements - here's my question. I'm putting together drum tracks for an album, and in one case, I need two bars of an eight-bar section to repeat - making that one section ten bars. In any other drum editing program, and in the old version of Garageband, I could simply open editor, copy the two bars, and punch it in. However, when I go to editor in the new version, it takes me back to the window with the virtual kit, the fill settings, etc. and I can't see the channel wav to just highlight, copy, and paste. Did they take this out? Can I really not edit any of the 8-bar sections in the Drummer feature? If that capability has been removed, the feature is essentially worthless, and I can't believe that anyone at Apple wouldn't recognize this. Help? Anyone? Am I just missing something really obvious?

Based on your question, it seems that you have a misconception of what a Drummer Region is.
A Drummer Region doesn NOT conatin any MIDI events
A Drummer Region does NOT contain an audio signal that you can view as a waveform
A Drummer Regions contains INSTRUCTIONS for a Drumm Pattern Generator (build into the Drummer Track.
When you edit a Drummer Region in the Drummer Editor, youedit the various instructions/parameters for the Drum Pattern Generator. Instead of placing exact notes for drum Kit Piece (Snare, Kick, HH, etc) the way you do it in a MIDI Region, here, you describe what to play in broader terns: Louder, less louder, more complex, less complexx, etc.
You have to make sure to fully understand to (different/new) concept behind the Drummer. Here is an exceprt from my book "GarageBand X - How it Works" that is now also available the Apple iBOok Store as an interactive multi-touch iBook.
You create a new Track, the Drummer Track ➊.
The Drummer Track contains special Regions, the Drummer Regions ➋.
The Regions contain the Drum Pattern, the instructions for the Pattern Generator what and how to play.
Each Drummer Region (the instructions) can be edited in the Drummer Editor ➌.
18 different Drum Kits ➍ are available in the Library Window ➎.
A Drum Kit includes style specific Drummer Presets ➏ that become available in the Drummer Editor ➌.
A Drum Kit also includes all the Plugins, including the Software Instrument Plugin "Drum Kit Designer" ➐.
The Plugins are hidden in GarageBand but their important parameters can be controlled via the Smart Controls Window ➑.
Hope that helps
Edgar Rothermich
http://DingDingMusic.com/Manuals/
'I may receive some form of compensation, financial or otherwise, from my recommendation or link.'

Trouble getting the Drummer Track to recognise rest notes

Hi -
Having a frustrating time at the moment getting a Drummer Track to accurately follow another track and need some guidance.
I have a drum track that I've previously imported into Logic Pro from a BOSS DR-880 drum machine.
The midi data from the drum machine sits in a Software Instrument track with the East Bay+ drum patch applied to it.
It plays fine but has no soul, so I want to breathe life into it by getting a Logic Pro drummer to follow the drum machine track and use that instead.
This is where the frustration lies, as the Drummer Track is just not following the midi track accurately enough. The drum machine track utilises regular rest notes - accentuated beforehand with a kick/cymbal 'stab' - in both the verses and choruses, but try as I might I cannot get the drummer to recognise these rest notes or perform fills around them.
I've so far tried the following in an attempt to improve the situation:
- Created Arrangement Markers for each section of the midi track - i.e. intro, verse, chorus, bridge etc...
- In the drummer track editor, modified the settings for the above sections to try to get the drummer to accurately pick up the rest notes on the midi track
- In the drummer track editor, enabled 'Follow' for kick and snare on the drummer track and pointed it to the midi track
- In the midi track header, enabled it as a Groove Track and ticked the drummer track to follow the groove track
None of this tweaking is giving the desired result.
Yes - I can manually go in and adjust the drum track by converting it to midi and creating the rests, but then I've got to deal with a preceding fill that doesn't fit the rest note, meaning a lot of fiddling about and risk the flow of the Drummer Track that I wanted in the first place. I've also got a few more other songs to import from the drum machine that I know I'll have the same bother with.
Has anyone had similar experiences to this? How did you overcome them?
Any advice or tips welcome.
Thanks!
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First, you are not going to be able to put a MIDI region on a Drummer track to have the computer drummer make it lifelike. In fact, if you take a Drummer generated region, turn it into MIDI, try and make some edits, then turn it back to a Drummer region you will lose all your edits. The Drummer plays what it plays. Likewise, by telling the Drummer to follow the groove of your MIDI region, you are telling the Drummer to play its own pattern, but to match the kick and snare to the lifeless region. That's only if you use a drummer region - doesn't work for MIDI.
If you want to add life to your existing MIDI you can use some of the humanize options in MIDI transform. Or, you could take a pretty good feeling Drummer region, convert it to MIDI, make a groove template out of that, then apply that to your lifeless region. Be prepared for a few notes to miss the GT grid and move way out of line.

Converting drummer to midi and split into separate tracks

The drummer app in logic pro is great. I can then convert a phrase into mdi and copy to my own track for further modifications. Also great. But is there an easy way to convert a drummer track into midi, and to split each part of the drum (hh, snare, kick etc) out into their own bespoke tracks? So that each part of the drum is then on its own track for futher processing and control.

Thanks to all for advice, tips and ideas. Just shows that there is no one way to do something in LPX.
Here is what I have found works for me, so that I can take a great groove from the drummer track, convert to midi (so that I can modify the drum part), split the kit components out to individual tracks, then ensure each kit part has its own channel strip so that each part can be fully managed independently:
The drummer track is great for brilliant drum parts. But to make your own edits you want to convert the drum part to a midi track.
To this:
Highlight the drummer track and r/click Convert To Midi Region.
Create a new track, then copy the midi region above into this new track.
In the new midi track, r/click the midi region, then select Separate By Note Pitch.
This auto creates a new track for each drum part, but they all share the same channel strip, so changing volume on one changes it on all.
To put these kit components into separate trax, do this:
To move them into unique channel strips, create a new midi/software track for each drum part, then drag each part from the original split into each of the new tracks. They now have their own channel strip.
Delete the original drummer and channel split trax.
You know have full independent control over each drum part. Assign your required drum kit to these trax and head bang away.

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Now I go back to do more recording and editing, and the MIDI drums won't speed up with the automation, thus putting it out of sync with the audio tracks that have been recorded to it. I've restarted etc, no luck. Anyone have any ideas what could have happened?

Maybe your Drum Machine doesn't accept Logic as it's MIDI master in terms of sync. There can only be one MIDI clock master. By default, it's Logic. Look if you Drum machine is set to slave!
But i must admit i never worked the chapter through in the Manual, since i didn't need it before. So i recommend looking there as well.
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What would cause Logic to open MIDI drum tracks as separate GM tracks?

So this is a continuation of a question I posted in another thread (so some of you may recognize the topic), but I have narrowed my problem down to this:
When I load a Standard Midi File into Logic 9, all my drum tracks come up as separate tracks (by actual drum) as GM Device. So I have 11+ tracks for drums. One for kick, one for snare, one for...you get the point. This has happened for several files, so it's not limited to one. The tracks have no playback (unless I load QT synth, which sounds like an 80's video game).
I posted the file for a few people to DL and try and it loaded correctly for them! Drums are on ONE track and load a Logic drum set (not GM on separate tracks).
So the question is: Why is MY copy of Logic behaving this way and others are not? Is this a simple setting?
You can take a peak at some screen caps and the original journey here:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2147823&tstart=0
Thanks,
Scott

Thanks Bill. I guess the split tracks are half the problem. I was under the impression that those of you who loaded the file had the tracks combined and Logic loaded a drum set for them. So, when you loaded the file the drum tracks were NOT loaded into a GM instrument? Each drum track was a Logic Instrument? Still a little confused...
Thanks for the tip on glueing tracks together. I'm on it.
I will do this then create a new track, load a drum set, and move the midi data onto it. Still a work around, IMO, but a faster one!

Can't hear live track when playing midi drum track

This is a really dumb question. I've been away from Logic too long. I'm trying to monitor a live guitar track while I play a recorded midi drum beat. I can hear the midi track fine. And I can hear the live guitar track when the midi track is not playing. But as soon as I start playback, the live track goes silent even though the red record enable button is on and the levels show live guitar signal. It just doesn't make it to the output. If I actually record a region, I can hear it. But I don't want to record, I just want to practice with effects and a drum track.
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G

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skijumptoes
This helped meRe: When creating a drummer track, the Drummer regions are empty and there is no place to choose a genre and drummer. The only active control is the Fills knob, but there is nothing to vary.
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Assigning midi drum track to drummer track

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