Originally Posted By: JohnJohnJohn
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But this brings me to the rest of my question which is, what happens when I buy MIDI drum packs from Toontrack? Or from GrooveMonkee? Will those patterns simply drop out hits that are played on non-existent drums? Or do they automatically remap to use available drums in a chosen kit?

And how does this all work with drum kits like those in Kontakt such as Studio Drummer?

As you can see I know almost nothing about drums and I don't wanna usae patterns with missing parts if I don't have to! I guess I can manually remap them but that is a bit above my pay grade as well! Any general advice on effectively using MIDI drums will be greatly appreciated!


I have a number of drum kits and all of them will drop parts that they do not have. The issue here is mostly that GM drums contain kits AND percussion parts. Most all drum programs do not have percussion parts, just the kit parts. To solve the percussion issue I purchased the Brio percussion ensemble :

https://www.indiginus.com/brio-percussion-ensemble

Be aware that this requires the full version of Kontakt. There are probably others like programs that don't require Kontakt that you might want to investigate.

Another issue is that some tracks contain more kit drums then the kit you are using. If that happens you have to find a kit that contain all of the drums, mostly toms, needed. In many drum kits you can add additional drums, again most likely toms.

Another thing as you are just getting into MIDI drums be sure that your software has a GM drum map. That will save you a lot of time in finding out what drums are missing. My SSD-5 drum kits are not GM compatible so I start out in GM, separate each individual drum or cymbal to individual tracks (note in my DAW, Studio One Pro 5, each track will carry the GM drum map name), then I load my SSD-5 kit or parts of kits matching the GM label to the SSD-5 kit's drums or cymbals.

Once you starting using MIDI drums I'm sure you will like it as there are a lot of edits you can do in MIDI that you can't do with RDs.

If you need help feel free to ask.

{edit} typo

Last edited by MarioD; 04/27/22 09:37 AM.

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