Esteemed Colleagues: I am thinking about getting back into some basic home recording using Reaper, but my recent upgrade to a new MacBook Pro was not compatible with the old drum software I was using. I am hoping someone has some experience and can make some good recommendations. Thanks in advance!
Drum Software Recommendations? Mac OS 10 Mojave compatible
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Steven Slate Drums. Or just Logic’s Drummer
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Toontrack Superior Drummer 3 (min. Mac OSX 10.6)
and mandatory The Progressive Foundry SDX
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+1 on SD 3
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Or the little brother of SD3... EzDrummer 2.
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No matter what drum you choose just use some randomization in time of the hits and velocity. This will make your drums live.
The worst you can do is to put just grid hit notes .
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I agree with the above re SD3 and EZ2.
I was happy with EZ2 until I finally caved and bought SD3. I can see what the fuss is about...... EZ2 is great but I have no regrets with the upgrade.
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Logic or Garageband's Drummer. Can't get any easier. You can always change notes later if you want. One of the many reasons I love Mac for music.
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Logic or Garageband's Drummer. Can't get any easier. You can always change notes later if you want. One of the many reasons I love Mac for music.
What notes? Every Daw and plugin for any OS allow you to change notes.
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What notes? Every Daw and plugin for any OS allow you to change notes.
Yes, but Drummer will write a drum part after you've already played something....and if you don't like it you can try another take or edit yourself.
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ToonTrack SD3, fxPansion BFD 3, XLN Audio - SSD5 (Steven Slate) are all Good choices, but my choice if I had to pick just one I believe would be Superior Drummer 3. And yes you can go into song mode by picking a pattern, insert it into the slot and SD3 then creates a song for you with 4 or 5 variations for intro, verse, chorus, bridge, and endings!
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Logic or Garageband's Drummer.
He's using Reaper, Carl.
A vote for SSD5. Much cheaper than SD3 and sounds superb.
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A friend of a friend made this.
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Again, I have no affiliation at all.
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SD 3. Best bang for the buck. And the interface is lightyears ahead of SSD 5' s (which I also own).
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Using EZ Drummer 2 at the moment but for some reason I find myself often just going back to Logic's drummer in spite of the weaker sounds and feels.
Been digging Komplete stuff for some time, does anyone has experience with Native Instruments Studio Drummer?
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Superior Drummer 3 is amazing...
Logics Drummer is actually divided in two parts, The Drummer: the AI part that creates the grooves and the Drumkit Designer: that is the "drum kit" similar to EZ-drummer, but with less options.
What many people don't know is that you can just replace the Drumkit Designer with basically any other drum plugin that follows the GM standard within the Drummer track. Superior Drummer 3 even has a mapping preset for Logics Drummer.
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No matter what drum you choose just use some randomization in time of the hits and velocity. This will make your drums live.
The worst you can do is to put just grid hit notes .
That's number one mistake many do. Just set and forget and then complain drum plugins sounds unrealistic, espcially oh and hihat. I manually do the velocity. So so boring but when it's done it was all worth it. The worst you do is to put just grid hit the notes? I depends on what genre you're into. If it's metal, just go for the grid. If it's jazz, well please don't do that.
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He's using Reaper, Carl.
A vote for SSD5. Much cheaper than SD3 and sounds superb.
Spot on. Hehehe! It reminds me of on other music forums when someone asks e.g recommend me a mic for a budget of 1K and others posts buy this mic, it's only 5K. Well I recommend this mic and it costs 7K but it's all worth it. And most of the times they recommend things they don't know nothing about but they have heard this mic is so good.
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IK Multimedia will soon release their first drum plugin, MODO drums. https://www.ikmultimedia.com/products/mododrum/
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EZ Drummer 2.... it is so simple... it has limitations but those are what I really love.. I suffer from options anxiety! I have not upgraded to SD3 for this reason... I love minimalism!