Native Instruments DRUMMER Series - The Definitive Guide 

Man... THANK YOU! Not just for this, but for all your Kontakt videos, and others. I just discovered your channel today but this stuff is GOLD! So well put together for free on RU-vid. I can't wait to go through a bunch more and learn a ton. This is awesome, thank you!

Excellent guide. Probably the best on RU-vid...Comprehensive and to the point... Thanks a lot.

I’m very very thankful for you in depth tutorials, I can’t even begin to say everything you have helped me with

Five years later now I also know everything I need to know about the Drummer series. Lots of new information. Thank you!

i regret finding your videos so late. Thank you for all the tutorials you have done. You are of a great help to my music journey! cheers! and keep up the good work!

Best tutorial I've seen for studio drummer. You've really opened up my drum production! Thank you. 👏👏👏

Wonderful tutorial. I just bought Komplete and I feel like I already have a comprehensive knowledge of NI Drums because of your video. I can't wait to begin to use them in some of my projects. Impressive. Thank you!

Thank you! You're a Legend! I was wading around in high water in the dark with my new investment and now your bright light has shone on Studio Drummer and revealed the seamingly hidden workings of this amazing musical tool!

Thanks a lot. You explained everything in a good tempo and on practical examples! Good work.

Excellent explanation of the ins and outs of how the Drummer suite works. Thank you so much!

Great video, my friend! Appreciate the breakdown and walk through of the Drummer series.

Wow, what a great and thorough tutorial! Kudos - great presentation, super great presenter. Keep up good work!

I’m so glad you have a wonderful video for help everyone out there who needs this ,this is really informative for all drummer Kontakt.thank you for your brilliant job mate.I really appreciate that❤

Thanks for the comprehensive video! Very useful

Great video, clear, concise and easy to follow. Thank you!

Thanks for this, I’m mixing my drum riffs now and needed clarity on working the mixer.

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Very comprehensive explanation. Thank you!

Great overview, man. I've been rolling with NI Studio Drummer for awhile now, and I wish I had seen this sooner.

Brilliant. Thanks so much for posting this.

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This is incredibly helpful, Thank you!!

Actually yours is the best in-depth tutorial !!!!

Fantastic video, really helped with the overhead mic send levels from each drum 👍

Thank you so much for investing your time! really great tutorial

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Thanks! That was so informative. Now I'll continue on my tedious quest to find how to split the individual drums out to seperate channels in Logic Pro X...

Great tutorial, clear, simple.

wow, man! thank you very much! I was using my AR 70s drummer in such a limited way!

This was amazing. Thanks so much!

Nice! I don't use these as often because they don't allow for stacking/layering kit pieces. But they're great at what they do.

A tad long but very extensive and importantly useful to me! Thank you, I appreciate your time on this. :-)

This is an excellent walkthrough. Thanks so much. Noting at 9:35 when adjusting the "hold", they didn't worry about microfadeout or zero crossing did they lol. Just surprising given who great the product is on the whole.

1:45 Different mixer presets of each groove. 2:07 2:24 3:04 3:16 Options. Trigger On Mouse Click. 3:39 Show Trigger States. 3:58 Select By MIDI 4:49 Unload Instrument button, can then load it back. 5:26 Snare A, B and C. 5:58 It's tempo-locked. 6:23 OH Mix, Room Mix, works individually for drums. Ctrl-click to set them back to 0. 7:22 Tune. Tunes the drums. Attack, Hold and Decay, demo. 9:48, 10:19 Keyboard. What drums the keys are. Choke. 12:51 Fills 14:32 Can access the MIDI files from your installation directory. 15:02 Tightness. 15:40 Grid control, affects the Tightness and Swing (rhythm). Demos of them. 16:46 The settings affect the MIDI file you drag into the DAW. 18:59 Velocity, also affects the MIDI track you drag into the DAW. Changes the range of velocities in the groove. The dials only affect what plays in the plugin, not what you've already dragged into the DAW. 21:31 Tempo. 22:36 Still have access to the Mixer presets. 23:04 Options page. Velocity - Curve. Velocity settings will affect incoming MIDI including MIDI tracks in the DAW. Fix = not touch sensitive. 23:52 Kontakt keyboard is touch sensitive. You probably want the Linear setting. 23:20 EXP+. EXP-. FIX. 25:42 Range, Linear setting. Adjust Range to minimum and max you want. 26:30 MIDI Mapping. Changing what key is which drum. Change Articulation with Note. Can change the Instrument. 27:25 Select By MIDI. Can save a new preset. 28:03 Presets. Using other things in conjunction with the Drummer series. Pulling track from a different drumkit onto the Drummer series track in the DAW. 29:38 General MIDI. 32:06 Kit View. Randomize, On button. For adding humanised feels. Play with them just a little for more realism. 33:51 Mixer page. Mixer presets. Can save new presets. 34:25 Can affect each drum with different FX. FX presets. Can save presets, and get rid of it. 35:10 Close Mics, Kit Mics and Buses. 35:24 Close Mics, panning. Demo. 36:04 Settings tab. In Mic (inside the drum) and Out Mic (outside the drum). Adjusting the mic balance. 37:01 Snare. Top and Btm Mic. Bleed. 38:09 Rest of drums don't have same control. FX Routing. Channel, Unload Channel button, 38:42 Master Output - route individual drums out into your DAW. Have the outputs set up before you load the drum plugin. 39:14 Outputs. Choose a different output for a drum. 40:31 EQ. Has different EQs for every drum. Shelf and a Bell. Boost or cut. 41:16 Middle bands, Q setting. 42:14 More snap. Top end. Overall output dial. 42:40 Transient Master. Attack and Sustain. Get a choppy kick drum sound. Overall output dial. 43:33 Compressor, the dials. 44:09 Parallel compression. Set Mix around the middle, feed it some Dry and some Wet 45:25 45:44 Tape. Demo of dials. Warmth controls the low end. HF (High Frequency) rolloff. Demo with a Tom. 47:26 Overheads (mics). OH and RM (room) stereo and mono channels. Can send individual levels of each drum to the overall mix. Adjusting. Making everything sound together instead of individual. 49:15 OH ST Width dial, dials on other mics. 50:11 Pull the faders down to have a focused drum sound. Turning down drums that are too loud. 50:44 Buses, Reverb tab, different reverbs. It comes through the Sends for each drum. 52:22 Change the groove. Send on the Master for controlling reverb on everything, use carefully. 54:04 Width, make it mono or stereo. L - R switch, changes the position of the listener (makes it sound like you're on the other side of the kit). Demo. 55:59 You can put FX on everything, even the Master tab, every tab. 56:34 For the Master the compression will be more noticeable. Could do a lot of compression, dial in the hard hitting sound with the dry. 57:38 Go to Settings for each drum and set master output to something else and record it in the DAW then use plugins on it. 58:03 To prove you now know all the Drummer series plugins / a recap, effectively. In Options and Kit View, tick the options. 59:49 1:00:09 60s Drummer 1:01:01 80s Drummer 1:02:02 Compression channel 1:02:46 50s Drummer. Old style drums. Has a Shell and a Triangle. 1:04:06 Modern Drummer Sparkle Kit 1:05:05 Build up your sequence in the DAW 1:05:29 In Kontakt Outputs, there are inserts, Filters, EQs, Effects 1:06:14 Outro

Thanks a lot ! Very good clear review!

this is gold, thank you!

Thank you so much! I am a non-drummer with no experience recording or mixing. I had no idea that there was so much involved in choosing and mixing drums, or that the NI drummer series has so much control over every aspect. These libraries are pretty old (as are many in Komplete 14 that I own), but it seems that you can't do much better with the newer stuff.

Thank Best tutorial ever man Keep it up cheers

Great tutorial, thanks!

Thank you so much. My drums were lacking a lot

Such a pleasant voice!

Nice. Thanks!!

what a tutorial!thank you so much!

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Great video!

Thanks for this great job

god sent person, thank you

Thank you so much for that 🙌🙏

Great tutorial!

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that is great!! thanks bro

enjoyed you overview. Any chance of you explaining to me how I can get the additional outputs (mo.2 thru 9) so I can send to individual channels in my daw?

Great ! Thankx !!!

Dude! Recently bought it and this should be on the NI page. Great work, thanks a million!

Thank you for this!

Wow. This video explained in great detail everything I needed to know about these kits. Best tut I've seen so far on Studio Drummer. This will earn you a subscription! Thank you so much!

Thnak you!

EXTREMELY HELPFUL...

4:00 - select by MIDI 15:00 - swing 36:05 - mics

thanks a bunch for this! just one question. i figured out how to get my outputs all set up in my daw and have them routed to their own individual tracks but was just wondering is there anyway to stop the drums from bleeding into each other or is there no way to do that? thanks again

Hi nice tutorial .. how to get a cymbals in a mixer ch. instead of a clap and a chop, and change the sound on them ? I have FL Studio..!!

Best tuto ever

awesome video what do I do if 2 midi notes are reading same notes on a electric drumset like my hihats is picking up the same note pad as a crash 2 ..lol ? I dont know

Thanks for the tutorial!. Around 7:00 can you fine control de 'tune' knob? Instead of using the mouse. When you right click you cant customize the knob. I try with reamidi control with reaper but nothing

Could you do a video on how to route those drum sets and studio One 4.6 so I can get every drum on its own channel

Thank you so much for this. You are a fucking king. Please keep doin what ur doing!

This was a great tutorial, really got me up to speed with this series. Well done! I think NI are an amazing company, but their UI is awful in many ways. I've been using Kontakt for a few years now, but understanding and getting to a good workflow is difficult, many things are hidden, the fonts are small, the menus are all over the place...I wish they were more like ableton or Logic, make things clear and let people focus on the music, not on terrible UI.

Great job. Thanks for doing this. How do you get the piano/keyboard to show?

Great video! At 41:00 you called up an eq off screen. How did you do that?

I’m using Abby Roads with my edrums is there any mixer controls for the cymbals? Or just the over mics? Hits on cymbals are weak so I had to turn down all of the drums.

Which Kontakt library provides the largest amount of drum fills?

Good job! Very detailed tutorial, but I didn't find a solution for my problem with studio drummer. Where are channels for crashes in the mixer? How to set pan for crash ?

Whu i can't drag and drop acitve groves to piano roll or playlist please help

can we use more than one groove in a piano rol like in fl i try to use more than one midis but it always replace the old ones how to do

I’m looking for a solution to choke crash. Any idea?

Thanks for the video. I have a question. Can I run it on kontaktplayer 5?

How do you change the meter from 3/4 to say 6/8 timing

Wish it was possible to blend pieces from the different kits and have access to dozens of snares, kicks etc, on each kit.

Wondering the best strategy for EQ, Comp, Tape FX. Use the mixer settings or manage these FX in the DAW? I’ve always used EQ in my DAW.

I have all of the NI Drummer Series. Is it better, in your opinion, than Superior Drummer? I heard a lot about how it is easy to use, but never tried it out my self. Sometimes it takes me a while to get the right sound for the drums with the NI stuff.

If I start a grove, how do I disable keyboard input?

Great tutorial video tho!

Thank you. I have one question. When I play a kik then always a tone from the snare comes with it. Why is that so?

How do you route the individual drums out?

Does groove work with midi keyboard keys ?

This is my go to drums and have yet to come close to this breadth of knowledge. Here's a song I did that I separated the drums in reaper then eq'd and mastered with Ozone 7. Best heard with speakers and subwoofer...that kik drum tho. I appreciate this vid, I'm about to write an album and need to get better at my drums production and sequencing. BTW these drums are the presets. soundcloud.com/elienguitar/too-much-is-not-enough

fucking awesome thx dude

Hi!!! Superb video, so .. How can I add grooves to tracks in Studio one? Thank you so much!

Great tutorial. Thanks. You can't adjust BPM within Abbey Roads itself can you? All the grooves are fixed?

Super basic question ( besides all the bells and whistles :)).. Where is the tempo controller in stand alone in Kontakt?

Is there any drum software that allows custom drum samples to be loaded in?

Can you plug in electronic drums and play with these drum sounds?

Does it sound better than any EZX with Toontrack ez drummer 2 too ?

Wait so how do I map?

The compressor doesn't have a gain reduction meter?

can you use these in fl studio?

Hello sir 💕💕💕 question ❓❓❓ for you Do we have EQ and compressor in studio drummer

I don’t know why there aren’t cymbals on the mixer except for high hats? It’s frustrating!

These are AMAZING plugins but Modern Drummer is the only bad one, it's a shame it's the one you picked lol