by Trobador222 » Sun Mar 28, 2021 2:40 am
Ashley wrote: Sun Mar 28, 2021 2:05 am
Trobador222 wrote: Sat Mar 27, 2021 12:05 pm
That organ sound at the beginning stands out! Is that an organ with distortion or are you pairing it with something else? Do you write the drum parts out, or are you using a drummer program?
Yes it's my Korg M1 synth effect VST - it's paired with another synth but I lowered the level of the church part quite a bit because it even stood out even more when at full volume. Thanks hope this helps - I've been using EZ Drummer too with a Metal expansion pack. I should get more expansion packs but EZ Drummer is expensive.
Logic's Drummer is not geared to metal at all. They have a "hard rock" drummer, but it does not come close. It's pretty amazing though and highly compatible to what you want it to do.
I joined an Ambient music forum and had someone tell me, my tracks were not Ambient enough because they had too many rhythmic parts. I started this track pissed off about that and deliberately designed it to be rhythmic through the whole song. Logic also has a separate Drum synth and I used that to come up with the percussion parts and then deliberately panned them to the outside of the bass and synths because fuck people who think you have to do this stuff with rules.
The band I used to play in, started as a drum circle with people playing with ethnic drums and percussion. They were called Rhythm Culture before I joined. They added a bassist and guitarist and morphed into something completely different over time, but still did drum/percussion performances when I started playing with them. I would play a simple wood block during those pieces. That is where I started with the percussive parts of this song. Then I took a pad, and used a plug in, to make a phased rhythmic break in the first part. Simple bass and then later a trombone from Logics studio horn synth, with a simple riff, and then added a delay. Plus a pad with a wah effect at the end.
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That organ sound at the beginning stands out! Is that an organ with distortion or are you pairing it with something else? Do you write the drum parts out, or are you using a drummer program?
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Yes it's my Korg M1 synth effect VST - it's paired with another synth but I lowered the level of the church part quite a bit because it even stood out even more when at full volume. Thanks hope this helps - I've been using EZ Drummer too with a Metal expansion pack. I should get more expansion packs but EZ Drummer is expensive. :roll:
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Logic's Drummer is not geared to metal at all. They have a "hard rock" drummer, but it does not come close. It's pretty amazing though and highly compatible to what you want it to do.
I joined an Ambient music forum and had someone tell me, my tracks were not Ambient enough because they had too many rhythmic parts. I started this track pissed off about that and deliberately designed it to be rhythmic through the whole song. Logic also has a separate Drum synth and I used that to come up with the percussion parts and then deliberately panned them to the outside of the bass and synths because fuck people who think you have to do this stuff with rules.
The band I used to play in, started as a drum circle with people playing with ethnic drums and percussion. They were called Rhythm Culture before I joined. They added a bassist and guitarist and morphed into something completely different over time, but still did drum/percussion performances when I started playing with them. I would play a simple wood block during those pieces. That is where I started with the percussive parts of this song. Then I took a pad, and used a plug in, to make a phased rhythmic break in the first part. Simple bass and then later a trombone from Logics studio horn synth, with a simple riff, and then added a delay. Plus a pad with a wah effect at the end.