Use Drum Machine Designer

Drum Machine Designer shows a grid representation of the electronic drum kit for the currently loaded patch. Each cell represents a drum kit piece.

You can play the drums, mute and solo kit pieces, and can edit a number of settings for each kit or kit piece.

You can also exchange the entire kit or individual kit pieces and can reorder kit pieces.

Note: Some drums are available only after you download additional content.

Play a drum or kit piece

Mute a kit piece

Solo a kit piece

Edit the sound of the drum kit

Smart Controls parameters let you change the level of sound groups within the kit and also provide a number of sound processing and effect options that affect the entire kit.

  1. Click the kit name at the top of the plug-in window.

    Figure. Drum Machine Designer header area.
  2. Adjust the Smart Controls parameters for the drum kit.

    See Smart Controls Mix and Effects panel and Smart Controls Sends panel.

Edit the sound of a kit piece

Smart Controls parameters let you change the sound characteristics and level of each piece in your kit.

  1. Click the kit piece that you want to edit.

    Figure. Drum Machine Designer interface with Kick drum selected.
  2. Adjust the Smart Controls parameters.

    See Smart Controls kit piece panel.

Reorder kit pieces

Exchange drum kits

  1. Click the kit name at the top of the plug-in window.

    Figure. Drum Machine Designer header area.
  2. Click a patch in the Library to load that drum kit.

Exchange kit pieces

  1. Click a drum cell.

    Figure. Drum Machine Designer with cell selected.
  2. Do one of the following:

    • Click a patch in the Library to exchange the kit piece.

    • Drag an audio file from the Finder, Audio File browser, or Loop browser onto the cell. Files can be in any audio file format supported by Logic Pro X.