User manual
Table Of Contents
- MDRUMMER DOCUMENTATION
- MELDAPRODUCTION MDRUMMER
- INTRODUCTION TO MDRUMMER
- If you want MDrummer to play notes, use MIDI channel 10 or switch to drum pad mode.
- To use MDrummer's rhythm engine you can use the MIDI command system or the integrated song sequencer.
- Use the integrated help system using F1 and check out MDrummer tutorial videos.
- There are multiple plugins and maybe a standalong application, which one should I use?
- TUTORIAL: CREATING A DRUM TRACK WITH MDRUMMER
- MDRUMMER STRUCTURE
- MDRUMMER DATA
- SOUND ENGINE
- RHYTHM ENGINE
- RHYTHM GENERATOR
- INTRODUCTION TO MDRUMMER
- MELDAPRODUCTION MDRUMMER L
- Menu button
- SAMPLE LIBRARY ANALYZER
- INPUT MIDI FILTER
- OUTPUT MIDI FILTER
- GLOBAL SETTINGS
- QUICK SETUP TAB
- MIXER TAB
- EFFECTS TAB
- SONG TAB
- DRUMSET EDITOR TAB
- RHYTHM EDITOR TAB
- RHYTHM GENERATOR TAB
- USED CONTROLS
- ABOUT MELDAPRODUCTION
And don't worry, you won't probably be actually editing the rhythms, because MDrummer has a rhythm generator!
MDRUMMER DATA
MDrummer manages a huge library of samples, subsample libraries, loops, rhythms etc. To make it systematic and easily portable and to protect you
from performing boring disk searches we decided to store all of the data inside one directory tree - certainly it is the MDrummer installation path - e.g.
"C:/ProgramData/MeldaProduction" on Windows or "/Applications" on Mac OS X.
There is a set of subdirectories with lucid names such as "Samples". You can add your own files (e.g. samples) just by copying them into
corresponding directory. But when it comes to samples, you can have them anywhere and just drag & drop or search for them in MDrummer.
When you want to move the whole MDrummer installation folder, you can do that, but it's possible you will have to let MDrummer search for it
afterwards, or even run MDrummerConfig from the there if provided.
Drumset management
While you are probably familiar to basic management such as loading and merging drumsets as described in the Tutorial, you can step forward now.
Everything concerning sound and drums is located in Drumset editor module. Let's talk about what a drumset is.
SOUND ENGINE
A drumset is a set of drums and you can just imagine a real drum instead of the virtual one. You can have as many drums as you need. To manage
your drumset in detail, switch to the Drumset editor.
The Drum list contains all the drums in the drumset. And the buttons above you can use to manage the drums. If you don't know what certain
button performs, just click the ? button in the title.
You might have also noticed the check boxes near each drum. Let's explain it on an example. There are two drums - an open hi-hat and a closed hi-
hat. You select the closed hi-hat and enable checkbox for the open one. Then any time the closed hi-hat is played, it stops open hi-hat. Same thing
happens when a real drummer is playing. This is called
drum closing
. And you can close any drum with any other.