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194Logic Pro Instruments
Drum Synth
Logic Pro Drum Synth overview
Drum Synth provides you with easy access to a powerful electronic drum synthesis engine.
Depending on the sound type you’ve chosen, up to eight specially selected controls for
pitch, filtering, effect, and envelopes allow you to quickly create the electronic drum sound
you need. You can, of course, add further processing plug-ins in the instrument channel
strip or busses.
Drum Synth is ideal for adding fills, flourishes, or individual hits to an existing Drummer
groove, loops, and live or sequenced parts, and for drum replacement and doubling tasks.
You can use multiple Drum Synth instances, either as individual software instrument
tracks or inside , which allows you to build complete electronic drum sets, encompassing
everything from vintage drum machine through to modern synthetic percussion sounds.
You can also directly load Drum Synth settings into Ultrabeat to access additional
synthesis and processing parameters. Typically, you would replace Drum Synth with
Ultrabeat on a channel strip, and the Drum Synth sound is automatically loaded.
Drum Synth global parameters
Drum Synth has four global parameters in the plug-in window.
• Group type pop-up menu: Choose a drum or percussion instrument family: Kicks,
Snares and Claps, Percussion, Hats and Cymbals.
• Sound type pop-up menu: Choose a drum or percussion sound type from the active
instrument group. Back to Default reverts all parameter changes to their initial values.
• Instrument icon: Click to play the sound.
• Key Tracking button: Enable to play the sound chromatically. Disable to play the sound
at the root pitch when any key is struck.
The "Root Key” label is shown beside the keyboard in the Piano Roll Editor.