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Hello,
I want to use the boutique 808 kit from Ultrabeat as my drum kit in Drum machine designer. How do I do this as it seems there are only certain specific kits that open with the Drum machine Designer interface. ie After Party, Analog Circuits etc. Thanks in advance.
Drum Machine Designer is essentially Ultrabeat in multi-output mode, and saved as a track stack, where individual percussive instruments are represented by their own tracks. When you browse library presets for Drum Machine Designer, these are saved as summing stacks – groups of tracks where each would have its own channel strip setting. In order to be able to switch the sounds, you'd have to unfold the stack and find the track with Ultrabeat plugin.
The first track in the stack would normally contain the Ultrabeat plugin, which you then can work with to switch the sounds. I assume you know how to operate Ultrabeat. And if not, you may read up on that here: https://help.apple.com/logicpro/mac/10.4/#/lgsifdc04988 > "Ultrabeat Assignment Section" (Import sounds or EXS Instruments).
In short, you won't be able to automatically reload the whole kit when Ultrabeat is in Multi-Output mode. Thus, you'll need to replace each sound manually, using one of the methods for importing sounds into Ultrabeat (as described in the help article linked above).
Drum Machine Designer is essentially Ultrabeat in multi-output mode, and saved as a track stack, where individual percussive instruments are represented by their own tracks. When you browse library presets for Drum Machine Designer, these are saved as summing stacks – groups of tracks where each would have its own channel strip setting. In order to be able to switch the sounds, you'd have to unfold the stack and find the track with Ultrabeat plugin.
The first track in the stack would normally contain the Ultrabeat plugin, which you then can work with to switch the sounds. I assume you know how to operate Ultrabeat. And if not, you may read up on that here: https://help.apple.com/logicpro/mac/10.4/#/lgsifdc04988 > "Ultrabeat Assignment Section" (Import sounds or EXS Instruments).
In short, you won't be able to automatically reload the whole kit when Ultrabeat is in Multi-Output mode. Thus, you'll need to replace each sound manually, using one of the methods for importing sounds into Ultrabeat (as described in the help article linked above).
Smart Controls are just shortcuts to parameters of existing plugins. You can customize and rename them as you please using smart control inspector. More about smart control mapping here: https://help.apple.com/logicpro/mac/10.4/#/lgcp7e59f24b
You could benefit from deconstructing Smart Controls of an existing Drum Machine Designer patch to better understand what's what and how it's done there.
Hi JotaGi,
Thanks a mill for your answer. Very helpful and well explained. It seems that the routing set up for Drum Machine designer (smart controls etc) are done specifically for its current pre set drum kits. ie if I create my own drum kit with the empty kit for example it seems a lot of the smart controls are greyed out or the names don't make sense to the new sample ie 'beep and scoup' etc
In addition, it is also possible to just drag and drop audio samples from Finder into Drum Machine Designer's window :)
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