nice one dancetech the hand drum you were describing is called the Heart beat which is how it was told to me as a youth back in the day, that is the foundation form to play the kette drums(african drum) . Another master class.The arrangement has me jumping on my chair Brilliant tutorial. Bongo Herman would be please to see your works even though it's with computers.You understand the fundamental in doing the works. I am glad to see the massive appreciating your skills as I do
Thank you for the Djembe folder. After countless trial/error I was able to see the drm list in cubase. Printed the map out using screen capture. Then figured out how to use Logics Drum Machine Designer to enter the drum list and bring in the samples to make a new patch. I went down the drum list and wav files in chronological order. Although I’m not sure I’ve the right wav sounds mapped to the right drum title I’m happy to report I’ve successfully added this instrument to my library. Cheers! 🥃
Thanks so much man, there are not many tutorials out there on this genre... so to find 16 videos of such quality is so helpful. Prince fatty and also Paddy Free have done some good tutorials that slant more on the Dub effects side of things... but when it comes to laying down the meat and potatoes; this series has been epic!
What a cool lesson. This is difficult indeed - I always miserably failed, choosing the wrong notes, making it lifeless, etc... Gosh you know your reggae drums. And Dadawah IS a genius album throughout. Thanks a lot!
Just found u yesterday! been looking into this genre before but havent found anything great until now! THANK you!! more on hand drums and percussions this is so amazing.
I've really been enjoying these tutorials! Would you consider making some sort of "reggae horns tutorial"? It's the only thing I can't seem to get the hang of
your really brilliant. I can play it on a bongoe. I played on a song for toni williams called swing and dine. tippa irie the vocalist..seeing it programmed is smething else. your a genius my man.im a singer now. i was all ways more interested in singing.wouldnt mind a go on a few of ur trax. lovely one love
you can listen to me on sound cloud "jah see and know" kelvin Judah. hope u like it. if not I will keep tuning in so you can teach me to make some wicked riddims, like u do.them trax are my old trax. I done jah see and know for a independent label foundation sound theyre in the process of releasing another. called soon come.my prob is I cant afford the musicians all the time. that's how I found you lol thanku
superb yet again I'm working my way through the ultrabeat tutorial at the moment (Brilliant) did they ever fix that accent bug? I haven't upgraded to Logic 10.2 yet so I have yet to try it. I have been recently hospitalised so I can't do much at the moment so these tutorials have given me something to do and focus on keep up the good work mate Alan....
I like this track. In my view the organ has to be on top cause it adds the cool up beats. It's possible to record mic & hand drum rolls and convert it to midi.
awesome tutorial thank you for taking the time to making this truly appreciated could you do a tutorial on how to make fills or break pls thanks again Peace!
+Nigel Mulvey thanks mate.. he must be a midlander then, my accent is notts/leics/grantham but i reign it in for the videos or i'd sound like the bloke from the Sleaford Mods lol ;)
+dancetech I live in Sydney but I'm from Coventry. I've really missed playing reggae (I'm a bass player) but these tutorials have really given me inspiration to write some stuff on my own. My Logic skills are improving too, so thanks again.
So glad you you took up the challenge for this one! Thanks again! Was wondering what settings you use for the subby bass? Can't quite get the depth and roundness I'm looking for.
+bangabeez the settings are shown in the video, but importantly the sub-bass plugin is turned off. you can try other bass presets of course & remember the sound you get is a combination of the amp settings AND the channel eq. Velocity of the midi notes also effects the roundness/smoothness of notes, so lower velocity notes is usually the rule because they have less attack.
I have an off top Q, how to set all velocities to the same? Got a bass track converted to MIDI with hugely varying velocities. I have to go into the hyper editor and paint all to 127 then in the track I drag them down with the velocity tool. If I select and drag all up in the MIDI editor they will return to their relative position when pulling down. Select Alt-Shift and drag doesn't work as it does with MIDI length. Am I doing it wrong?
+rawstarmusic piano edit / functions menu / fixed velocity - all this stuff is covered in our logic 9 'piano edit' chapter tutorials btw; it's all the same in pro x pretty much ;)
dancetech Ah! I had a hunch there must be a function. So it's the Transform window where I can tame velocity to fixed, max and mini. thanks for reply. Wanted to look for relative, compress it a bit. I had already set it to 100 and could change it with transform. Undo everything til the original velocities, selected all and the transform options are grey & unaccessible? Logic Logic, you're freaking with my mind.
