Groove3 Pro Tools: Programming Realistic Drums Explained

If you're tired of dealing with the hassle of finding a good drummer and/or trying to record great-sounding drums, this course is for you! Pro Tools guru Thomas Cochran will show you how to get professional-sounding drum tracks in Pro Tools - all without miking a single drum! You'll learn all about programming beats, patterns, and fills, including plenty of techniques for added realism, as well as tips on MIDI editing, processing, and mixing. After this drum programming course is through, you'll be ready to add a killer drum track to your very next song using everything you've learned. These drum programming videos are designed for Pro Tools users wanting to get pro-sounding virtual drums.

To begin, Thomas shows you the ropes of programming a basic beat, getting your feet wet and familiarizing you with the basic concept of composing drum patterns. You'll also learn key aspects of realism, such as making the parts playable and following common practices employed by real drummers. Then Thomas will show you how to get more detailed with your beat, adding velocity variation, applying different types of quantization, and more.

Next, you'll learn how to add ghost notes, a subtle drum technique that lends real authenticity to your parts, as real drummers often include these types of additions without even always realizing it. Thomas also explores the subjects of adding fills, which not only help to add variation but serve as transitions between the different sections of a song.

There's more to come as well, such as using advanced drum libraries like Addictive Drums 2 (humanizing features, MIDI groove presets), multi-output routing (for processing each part of the kit individually), multiple MIDI tracks (all routed to the same virtual drum instrument), and more. Thomas closes out the course by walking you through the process of creating an alternative rock drum track from scratch - all the way from programming to arranging, editing, and mixing - followed by a look at creating realistic hi-hat top loops.

Live drums are great, but sometimes they're impractical, and they're always a chore. With this tutorial, you'll see how to get virtual drum sounds that rival the best live drums, and you don't even need to mic or tune one drum head. See the individual Pro Tools drum programming video tutorial descriptions for more information on all that's covered in this course and how you can use these ideas in your own productions. You never need to deal with a difficult drummer again... Watch "Pro Tools: Programming Realistic Drums Explained®" now!

What You Will Learn:

-Basics of drum programming (using the MIDI editor, tips for playable parts).

-Lending realism to your parts with ghost notes, velocity variation, quantization, fills, etc.

-Achieving different feels with MIDI groove presets.

-Using multi-output routing to send each part of the drum kit to its own track for individual processing.

-And more!