Logic Drum Kit Designer Map

[Bear-Faced Cow]

Now that EZD3 allows us to create custom drum mappings,...

Now that EZD3 allows us to create custom drum mappings, I have created a mapping for Logic’s Drummer for those of us who like to use Drummer. I’m still working out the kinks in it, but it seems to play pretty nicely so far with EZD3. All you should need to do is unZIP the attached file and drop it into your EdrumPresets folder. Once you do that, simply load a Drummer Track in Logic and replace the instrument with EZD3. Then load the map in the MIDI/E-drum Settings.

Let me know if you find any problems with it.

Have Fun! I am!

jord

P.S. I will work on a mapping for GarageBand soon (I’m having too much fun with Logic right now 😀 )

EZdrummer version: 3.0.0
Operating system: macOS Big Sur (11)

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

• This topic was modified 3 years, 1 month ago by Bear-Faced Cow.

Now that EZD3 allows us to create custom drum mappings, I have created a mapping for Logic’s Drummer for those of us who like to use Drummer. I’m still working out the kinks in it, but it seems to play pretty nicely so far with EZD3. All you should need to do is unZIP the attached file and drop it into your EdrumPresets folder. Once you do that, simply load a Drummer Track in Logic and replace the instrument with EZD3. Then load the map in the MIDI/E-drum Settings.

Let me know if you find any problems with it.

Have Fun! I am!

jord

P.S. I will work on a mapping for GarageBand soon (I’m having too much fun with Logic right now 😀 )

EZdrummer version: 3.0.0
Operating system: macOS Big Sur (11)

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

• This topic was modified 3 years, 1 month ago by Bear-Faced Cow.

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[Bear-Faced Cow]

If are you calling this fighting at your age, I highly suggest you re-read what I am posting. You are free to use whatever you want to do your drums, but there is so much incorrectness in your post that needs to be addressed. So, I’m going to break it down starting with the obvious.

I am a drummer too, since more than 50 years

Unless you are actually playing the drums into Logic, the only relevance this has is rudiment knowledge. And if you were, you would be taking advantage of the drum maps in EZ Drummer and even then I would suggest you record into EZ Drummer. However, what we are doing right now is drum programming which is in itself a far cry from drumming. Drum programming is a game of numbers  and being able to make those numbers similar, or identical, to what real drummers would be playing on a MIDI drum kit.

Using Logic is very simple as Logic is analysing the track depending of the arrangement track to automatically define the drum track. It give you very quickly a drum track with fills placed

You’re telling me what I already know. I have been using it since 2013 when it was released and the drumming styles actually had human names with biographies attached. It is one of the very reasons I did the Session Player mappings. Again, zero relevance to your drumming skills.

As much as I like to use the Session Players, the Bandmate feature in EZ Drummer 3 for coming up with grooves to match your audio is pretty good as well. I’ve also been known to use these interchangeably.

If you want to improve it you will have to use the Piano Roll, there are not much difference between the grid editor of SDZ3

Incorrect on so many levels. First of all, there are five ways to edit MIDI in Logic, with the piano roll being least efficient for drums. It is just the most convenient since it is prominently displayed. However, it is limited in the way you are using it because if you are going to stick to the mapping that the Session Player provides, you are losing out on numerous articulations that are readily listed in the grid editor in EZ Drummer. By your own posts, you’ve admitted to have EZ Drummer for a very short while which is not enough time to actually think the grid editor is the same as the piano roll. Yeah, if you are looking at it on the surface, one can say there is no difference. However, the difference is in the tools for “improving” your grooves. Unless you’ve set up various key commands and MIDI transformations and built up a workflow in Logic, which I believe you haven’t, the tools in EZ Drummer can’t be beat. Pushing, pulling, humanizing as well as (de)crescendos are way faster and less tedious in EZ Drummer. That’s only the short list. I haven’t even mentioned Edit Play Styles up until now.

And if you believe that the only way you can edit your Session Player grooves are in Logic, you are incorrect as you can bring your grooves from Session Player directly into EZ Drummer 3 without the need to convert to MIDI.

The other advantage is that if you have a piece and you want to use its drum track with the GREAT SOUND of SZD3 it is very simple. Just drag the track on the Mapped Instrument

Very tedious since you can set EZ Drummer up as a Session Player instrument directly and do all of you work on a single track. I highly suggest you familiarize yourself with both Logic Pro 11 and EZ Drummer 3’s features to take full advantage of it.

Is it possible in SZD3 to give a score to the drummer that is going to play your song live ?

Big deal! Drag your grooves into a Logic MIDI track for that to create a score. Highly suggest you familiarize yourself with knowing how to map a drum score in Logic, though. It’s not totally accurate. Besides, I trust most of the drummers that I work with to do their own thing.

The first Mapped Instrument I am doing will only contain the instruments used in Logic.
The second one will contains all the 127 instruments of SDZ3 (end of March)

Then you should be using the default EZ Drummer 3 mapping. Again, knowing how EZ Drummer 3 works, you would know that mappings are one way. EZ Drummer uses the Session Player maps to translate the incoming MIDI to its own default format. They also don’t cover the entire set of articulations in EZ Drummer so you’re going to have a hybrid map. Again a setup for issues. Also note that mapped instruments in Logic are not instrument tracks, but MIDI tracks that you need to wire into your tracks through the environment. Very tedious work with diminishing returns for what you already get in EZ Drummer, not to mention risky.

But if that’s what you want to do have fun and make sure you save it as a template.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

[cyril blanc]

Hello Jordan

I have been using your mapping for Logic’s Drummer.

I have made a “Mapped Instrument” that I link to an EZD3 au instrument.

My goal was to use and EZD3 AU to an existing GM drum instrument.

With a few tweaks in your Midi mapping it is working fine.

You just drag you Drum Instrument on the Mapped Instrument I have created

The only thing I had to do is to reduce the velocity on Ride Right because at 127 it was too “crashy”

I have start to add the all the other EZD3 instrument that are not in the GM Midi.
I soon I will have double check this I will make it available.

Operating system: macOS Sequoia (15)

Musically
Cyril Blanc

[Bear-Faced Cow]

Um, if you are tweaking the session player map to be compatible with GM then really you are using it wrong and may only work in very unique situations such as yours, since the session players have their own additions beyond GM. You should have just mapped EZ Drummer’s default mapping as it would have been far more compatible with EZ Drummer.

There are other caveats to the mapped instrument in regards to EZ Drummer. EZ Drummer’s mapping beyond their common articulations change from library to library. It was one of the reasons I never bothered. The drum edit capabilities in the piano roll was another.

Whatever floats your boat.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

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