How Do You Lay Out Your Drum Pads?

SunkLo · Post by **SunkLo** » Wed Nov 27, 2013 1:37 am

What it says on the tin. Show me your pad layouts.

For Superior Drummer, I've got a kit laid out like this:

[HH Choke ]  [HH Open  ]  [Cymb L   ]  [Cymb R   ]

[HH 1     ]  [HH 2     ]  [HH 3     ]  [Ride     ]

[Snare    ]  [Sidestick]  [Snr Roll ]  [Tom 1    ]

[Kick 1   ]  [Kick 2   ]  [Flr Tom 1]  [Flr Tom 2]

I can play Kick 2 and the three closed Hihats with my right hand, while playing ghost kicks and snares with my left. It's pretty easy to reach over to the ride or tap the crash cymbals with two fingers. The open hat gets muted by the choke or any of the closed hats so it's pretty easy to get good sounding hats parts with one hand. I can pretty much hold down a whole beat with one hand just using the second column if I have to.

It's not as easy to figure out if I'm not using a traditional drum kit setup. I'll usually put kicks and snares in the same spot and then try to arrange the other percussion according to what their closest analogue on a real kit would be.

Aufnahmewindwuschel · Post by **Aufnahmewindwuschel** » Wed Nov 27, 2013 8:23 pm

i hate hi hats so if i have to use them i either use a loop of any sample pack or i take a pacak of hi hats and put it into nova 32 or some kind of midi maker and hope for the best that kinda my lay out. kick on 1 9 snare 5 13

SunkLo · Post by **SunkLo** » Wed Nov 27, 2013 8:28 pm

BudSpencertron wrote:i hate hi hats

u wot m8

Aufnahmewindwuschel · Post by **Aufnahmewindwuschel** » Wed Nov 27, 2013 8:30 pm

haha i dunno jsut hate to make patterns to lazy dont hate them as a sound

SunkLo · Post by **SunkLo** » Wed Nov 27, 2013 9:34 pm

Can't tell if that's worse.

Aufnahmewindwuschel · Post by **Aufnahmewindwuschel** » Wed Nov 27, 2013 10:07 pm

yeah its lame haha but i mean i do respect if people make incredible patterns and drum breaks on their own just for me its too tuff

Phatscout · Post by **Phatscout** » Wed Nov 27, 2013 11:54 pm

I just drag drums from the browser (Ableton user here man) and lay them out (1 track per drum). I dunno why I don't use Impulse or a Rack or whatever, but it's just how I do it.

nowaysj · Post by **nowaysj** » Thu Nov 28, 2013 7:59 am

SunkLo wrote:Can't tell if that's better.

Keep up Sunk.

SunkLo · Post by **SunkLo** » Thu Nov 28, 2013 11:42 am

I guess I should clarify I'm talking about laying out drums over a pad controller like an MPD, MPK, Maschine, etc. Not arranging them in software.
Trying to find the optimal finger drumming layout in terms of ergonomics.

Nwj coming in with his tony robbins ass and not even participating in the thread...

Aufnahmewindwuschel · Post by **Aufnahmewindwuschel** » Thu Nov 28, 2013 12:19 pm

you mentioned you want to be able to reach them all at ones so you can play them all at the same time or in dif sessions?

SunkLo · Post by **SunkLo** » Thu Nov 28, 2013 12:22 pm

Same time ideally.

Aufnahmewindwuschel · Post by **Aufnahmewindwuschel** » Thu Nov 28, 2013 12:37 pm

k did you maybe try a hip hop forum ? i bet they know alot about mpc etc and how to get the best lay out

rockonin · Post by **rockonin** » Thu Nov 28, 2013 2:35 pm

I don't use a physical drum pad, i use Groove Agent One in Cubase 5. I normally have this layout on the pads.

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[Perc 1]             [Perc 2 ]         [Cymbal 1]        [Cymbal 2]

[HH 1 Closed]        [HH 2 Closed]     [HH 3 Open]       [HH 4 Open]

[Snare 1]            [Snare 2]         [Snare 3]         [Snare 4]

[Kick 1 ]            [Kick 2]          [Kick 3]          [Kick 4]

nameless133 · Post by **nameless133** » Thu Nov 28, 2013 8:34 pm

mostly in drum rack:
[kick] [snare] [oh] [ch]
[cyn1/other perc] [cyn2/other perc] [other perc] [other oerc

nowaysj · Post by **nowaysj** » Thu Nov 28, 2013 8:50 pm

Bottom left, kick 95% of the time. To the right, hh, to the right, snare. Boom Bap layout. The rest is variable.

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