All you'll ever need to know about drum programming

[HeadCrusher]

Hey guys,

I'm putting together an E-book on how to program realistic sounding drums from scratch without using pre-recorded grooves. I thought this might be relevant to some of you and I'd hook you up with a sweet pre-order deal.

Here's the details:

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If you don't want to pre-order now you can still get an amazing deal (save 45% upon release without paying anything now) by filling out this short form.

Let me know what other topics you'd be interested in.

Alright, that's it, hope you like.

 

[The-Zeronaut]

Awesome
Already sent you the survey

 

[HeadCrusher]

Awesome
Already sent you a reply via email
(Dunno who's who on the mailing list but I replied to everyone )

 

[lelahel]

terrible !!

 

[HeadCrusher]

Thanks for signing up anyway. I just emailed you.

 

[thaz16]

paid !

 

[ATLA]

nice

 

[HeadCrusher]

Thanks a lot Joel, I'll email you in a sec.
Thanks for signing up Mickey. There's still a few copies of the pre-order left if you'd like to buy now.

 

[HeadCrusher]

Alright guys, only a few copies left of the pre-order. Make sure to get yours quick before they're gone.

 

[HeadCrusher]

Only two books left for pre-order. Grab them quick, they'll go nicely with whatever you get for Metal Month.

 

[cobhc]

Just ordered

 

[HeadCrusher]

Cool, thanks a lot man. Just emailed you.

 

[abt]

Any left? I'm in.

EDIT: Scratch that, I've ordered it. I didn't realize the image had a link on it.

 

[DanLights]

I can still order even though it seems the 10 have been taken? I want one too.

 

[HeadCrusher]

Great, thanks guys!

Dan, I believe it worked for you as well? At least I have an order from A Coruña, Spain.

I'll email you both tomorrow as well as everybody else who signed up for the email list lately. Thanks a lot guys, really appreciate it.

I've been writing for the last couple of hours and I can't tell you how psyched I am for this. I bet it's going to be way more than the 80 pages I promised. There's just so much stuff to put in there.

I'll keep you all posted.

 

[abt]

I'll add a request if I may? I find myself getting trying to bus tracks all over the place in SD2. It's a lot of work and not necessarily worth it. I've seen others just throw EZDrummer (something I've just started using for simplicity) on a track and hardly change anything and get better results. I'm hoping you might cover some of this in your mixing tips? Basically for me it's a workflow issue where I've become unproductive, getting too bogged down in trying to tweak SD2.

EDIT: I guess what I'm saying is that I'm not confident enough to just do minimal things in SD2 and feel like I should be tweaking it hard to get a the best sound. I'm interested on how far you really need to go with this.

 

[ATLA]

bought! excited for this iv needed a much needed tutorial on this stuff for a while now.

 

[DanLights]

Yeah I bought anyways, so I happily wait for the book whenever it comes out, I just love pre-ordering, when you finally get it, it feels like it was for free hahaha

I'm really curious to find out all I can learn and improve with this!

 

[HeadCrusher]

I'll add a request if I may? I find myself getting trying to bus tracks all over the place in SD2. It's a lot of work and not necessarily worth it. I've seen others just throw EZDrummer (something I've just started using for simplicity) on a track and hardly change anything and get better results. I'm hoping you might cover some of this in your mixing tips? Basically for me it's a workflow issue where I've become unproductive, getting too bogged down in trying to tweak SD2.

EDIT: I guess what I'm saying is that I'm not confident enough to just do minimal things in SD2 and feel like I should be tweaking it hard to get a the best sound. I'm interested on how far you really need to go with this.

Noted.

While this is going to be primarily about programming I will including a few mixing tips as well as promised. My advice would be not to get too hung up about it. SD2 is a raw drum kit that gives you a lot of options to shape it's sound. Naturally that'll take quite a lot of work though. EZdrummer on the other hand is readily mixed and all you got to do is slam it on that MIDI track and you're good to go. Since it's been heavily processed already options are somewhat limited. However I find myself setting it to multi-out and tweaking the individual channels from time to time. I never mess around with compression or reverb on them but I tend to just play with EQ quite a bit if necessary. This way I can get the standard kit quite usable for Metal for example. If that's not enough for you'd have to twelve deeper into mixing drums and stick with Superior. Ermin wrote a great book about mixing btw.

Hope that helps.

 

[HeadCrusher]

Alright guys, once again thanks for pre-ordering and your interest in the book.

First round of pre-sales is now officially over. Make sure to sign up to the mailing list here to stay up to date and make sure that you'll be among the first to know when any news regarding the book or more pre-sales come around.