- #How to make a drum track with superior drummer 2.0 reaper full#
- #How to make a drum track with superior drummer 2.0 reaper professional#
No drummer hits perfectly hard dead center every time, but that’s what it sounds like when you have all your hits at velocity 127. For a piano a lower velocity may mean less attack, in Superior Drummer a different velocity means a different recorded drum sample is used. The difference is that good instrument simulators change the sound with velocity, not just the volume. You may think this is the same as volume, but its not. Each note has a velocity between 0 (no hit) and 127 (maximum force). Velocity is the MIDI term for how hard a note is hit, regardless of instrument. There are two ways of making your drum patterns more dynamic and thereby more human: velocity and timing. A drummer I know once told me “music without dynamics is just boring”. Especially fast snare fills are susceptible to the “machine gun effect” making them sound nothing like nothing like a real drummer. There’s a good chance your first drum patterns will sound a bit stale and mechanic. Also, if your pattern uses a lot of hats those are usually on the left, so go with more crashes on the right in that pattern.
#How to make a drum track with superior drummer 2.0 reaper full#
So alternate between cymbals for a more full sound from the drumkit. The overhead mics in Superior Drummer simulate stereo recording, so depending on which crash you choose for a particular hit it will be panned a bit to either side.
If there’s distinct alt picked pedaling in the riff I often let the kicks (double, of course!) follow that for emphasis. With the snare as a sort of metronome I add kick. I usually start with snare, just adding hits every other bar. Add a new empty MIDI item with the same length as your rhythm guitar “cycle” for this part (not sure what to call it, one complete play of the current rhythm riff). Here’s a Superior Drummer 2 map for Reaper.Īdd a new (MIDI) track to the project in your DAW for the drums and apply your favorite drum plugin. For simple patterns you can use a generic MIDI drum map, but to really utilize your drum VST get a specific map. It’s a text file that you load into your DAW that maps generic MIDI notes like D#3 to their equivalents in the drum VST, like “Crash 5 bell”. To make the programming easier, get a drum map. The only time I use pads and record “live” is when I can’t nail the groove I want by programming just to see approximately where in the grid specific hits belong (it can get hairy sometimes with triplets, 1/24 resolution etc). Too many different parts of the kit needs to be played at once and I never get it tight. Some people like to record the MIDI notes live using a keyboard or pads, but I’m just not good enough to do that. I always program the drum patterns in a MIDI editor. I’ve usually tracked those to a prefabricated groove or (less common) a metronome. When programming drums I already have my guitar tracks made. They can also create the illusion that you’re playing faster and tighter (hide small timing slipups), where generic patterns can cause the opposite. Custom drum patterns tailored to your guitar riffs are going to enforce the rhythm and can add a whole new “drive”. If you’re anything like me though, you’re going to want to do your own drum patterns. They are well categorized (“Double bass, back beat, crash/bell, groove 5”) and since they are MIDI they automatically adapt to your song’s bpm and you can make adjustments to them in a standard MIDI editor. You have instant access to grooves recorded by Toontrack’s awesome drummers that you can just drag and drop into your DAW.
One of its best features is the included grooves library.
It’s a very competent plugin at a really reasonable price. When I first started writing my own songs I used EZDrummer Drumkit from Hell. 15 years ago you would have had to make do with a crappy drum machine.
#How to make a drum track with superior drummer 2.0 reaper professional#
You should consider yourself lucky, because nowadays there are professional sounding plugins like Superior Drummer that are actually used in real productions. If you do most of your playing at home and don’t have a band (my band is currently just two guitarists jamming on Sundays for instance, on break for the summer at that) but still want to make songs, you are going to be using virtual drums.
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