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How Do You Lay Out Your Drum Pads?
Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2013 1:37 am
by SunkLo
What it says on the tin. Show me your pad layouts.
For Superior Drummer, I've got a kit laid out like this:
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[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.
Re: How Do You Lay Out Your Drum Pads?
Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2013 8:23 pm
by Aufnahmewindwuschel
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
Re: How Do You Lay Out Your Drum Pads?
Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2013 8:28 pm
by SunkLo
BudSpencertron wrote:i hate hi hats
u wot m8
Re: How Do You Lay Out Your Drum Pads?
Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2013 8:30 pm
by Aufnahmewindwuschel
haha i dunno jsut hate to make patterns to lazy dont hate them as a sound
Re: How Do You Lay Out Your Drum Pads?
Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2013 9:34 pm
by SunkLo
Can't tell if that's worse.
Re: How Do You Lay Out Your Drum Pads?
Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2013 10:07 pm
by Aufnahmewindwuschel
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
Re: How Do You Lay Out Your Drum Pads?
Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2013 11:54 pm
by Phatscout
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.
Re: How Do You Lay Out Your Drum Pads?
Posted: Thu Nov 28, 2013 7:59 am
by nowaysj
SunkLo wrote:Can't tell if that's better.
Keep up Sunk.
Re: How Do You Lay Out Your Drum Pads?
Posted: Thu Nov 28, 2013 11:42 am
by SunkLo
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...
Re: How Do You Lay Out Your Drum Pads?
Posted: Thu Nov 28, 2013 12:19 pm
by Aufnahmewindwuschel
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?
Re: How Do You Lay Out Your Drum Pads?
Posted: Thu Nov 28, 2013 12:22 pm
by SunkLo
Same time ideally.
Re: How Do You Lay Out Your Drum Pads?
Posted: Thu Nov 28, 2013 12:37 pm
by Aufnahmewindwuschel
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
Re: How Do You Lay Out Your Drum Pads?
Posted: Thu Nov 28, 2013 2:35 pm
by rockonin
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]
Re: How Do You Lay Out Your Drum Pads?
Posted: Thu Nov 28, 2013 8:34 pm
by nameless133
mostly in drum rack:
[kick] [snare] [oh] [ch]
[cyn1/other perc] [cyn2/other perc] [other perc] [other oerc
Re: How Do You Lay Out Your Drum Pads?
Posted: Thu Nov 28, 2013 8:50 pm
by nowaysj
Bottom left, kick 95% of the time. To the right, hh, to the right, snare. Boom Bap layout. The rest is variable.