Trap Drum Samples

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Here are the trap drum patterns, they use my own free 808 kit and free Ableton sub bass rack too. The BPM is set at 145. You can use your own samples too and change the patterns, these are starting points, free free to edit them and change them as you see fit, whatever sounds good to be honest.

This one is very simple but effective, with just 4 elements, and reverb on the snare. It has double time hats at the end of the first bar for that rushing feel. I just switched the grid to 1/32 and filled out 4 hats at the end of the bar. It helps that the rest of the hats are really constant too, so you really notice it when they double up. The double kicks at the end of the bar are a common feature in trap too.

our first free trap drum kit, created in 2017, has an older feel but is still a solid addition to your collection. it contains around 30 one-shot samples, including punchy kicks, 808s, bells, and textures. perfect for beginners looking to make beats, this kit is royalty-free and completely free.

It seems that when I am in Drum Kit Designer and choose a kit I can also choose multi-out so that I can then create separate output tracks for a kit by hitting the plus button that shows up in the mixer view for the track and each time I click it creates the corresponding extra track for the particular instrument in the kit e.g. snare, tom, kick, etc.

Also if it is correct is there a way for me to find the underlying drum sample that is being used from the library? So for instance in Drum Machine Designer there will be in the Trap Door kit - Snare 1 and Snare 2. Are these stored in the general library section somewhere? In different words, are Trap Door Snare1 and Trap Door Snare2 samples I can locate from the search/library/explorer function - there are actual files that are Trap Door Snare 1 and Trap Door Snare 2 and Trap Door Snare 1 and Trap Door Snare 2 are only aliases - the sample has a real name? If so how would I go about finding what the 'real' names and locations of Trap Door Snare 1 and Trap Door Snare 2 are?

You can find the entries in the Library. You could use the search. Or you can open DMD, click the desired cell and look for the sample name in the list of equivalent samples that appears in the Library:

If you are looking for the actual underlying sample (audio file) then you have to open Ultrabeat, which is inserted in the first channel strip to the left of the DMD channel strip in the Mixer (after clicking the disclosure triangle). Click "Snare 1 Trap Door" in the column on the left then click the name of the sample at the top of the waveform display in Osc2 to reveal the file in the Finder:

I couldn't do it, after pressing the Disclosure triangle, clicking on the "+" sign of the instrument to create a sub-instance of this instrument, and then right-clicking the strip in the mixer to select Create Track. This creates a new instance of the same instrument, which will not be visible to you as a "pad" in Drum Machine Designer. You can't drag and drop the instance of that instrument to a pad in Drum Machine Designer, and you can't select the instance from the pad. You can only create a new instrument.

Of course, this works fine and well if I just want to use DMD with a multi-output plugin, e. g. in step sequencer. But if I wanted to use Drummer to program DMD, each DMD pad requires me to initiate a new virtual instrument. (E. g. Then I would have a one virtual instrument instance for snare, one for kick, one for cymbals etc...) Seems there's no easy way to multi-output to Drummer.

I'm not sure what you mean or how you're using Drummer and DMD exactly, can you give the steps to reproduce your issue exactly? For example, if I open a new empty project with one drummer track and choose an Electronic Drummer then follow the steps I gave you (open the Mixer and click the disclosure triangle) I get this (my screen isn't wide enough to display all the channels):

To get a kick, a snare and a cymbal out of this virtual instrument and have Drummer play them, I had to initialize three separate instances of that same instrument to three different DMD channels. (As you can see, I also tried creating one multi-output instrument but Drummer doesn't play it separately.) It would be smarter if there was only one instance of the instrument, which would provide three multi-output channels. Doing so is entirely possible with e. g. Ultrabeat (probably because multi-output Ultrabeat somehow itself seems to map different pitches to separate channels and therefore can used in Drummer without DMD), but it's not possible with the instrument I'm using (Chipsounds).

My instrument doesn't give me the desired results when used with Drummer alone; DMD is also required. When using my instrument with Drummer and DMD, a new instance of the instrument has to be created for each different sound.

(In this thread, I mused about remapping notes with Scripter to be able to use my plugin with Drummer or my USB drumpads. Someone, you or Atlas007, maybe suggested using a Transformer object. But at the end of the thread, I end up renouncing Scripter and Transformer in favor of DMD, which Dewdman42 says is much more convenient. And he's right.)

It's a step forward. A multi-timbral, multi-output instrument requires a lot of resources (RAM, CPU etc.) and doesn't leave any flexibility for how Logic can handle the resources it requires. For example, Logic can't easily put the instrument in some kind of sleep mode if you're using only one of its channels, whereas when using multiple individual instruments, Logic can easily use resources only for the individual instruments currently in use in that part of the song.

For these reasons, and from the ground up, Logic was always optimized to work with single output instruments on their own channel strips, rather than multi-output instruments feeding multiple Aux channel strips. This lets you use many more individual instances of instrument plug-ins that are each lighter in resources, and lets Logic manage the resources required by each instrument. The old Ultrabeat-multi-out DMD implementation was just a temporary patch, this new and improved Drum Synth (which uses Ultrabeat behind the hood) and Quick Sampler implementation follows that same paradigm.

What I primarily had in mind was that working with one multi-output instrument rather than several single-output instruments would be more nifty, as I could control the sounds/channels in a more centralized manner and not having to jump between different instances of the same instrument (while in DMD). I was thinking much less in terms of RAM/CPU. (Concerning that topic, the first thread I found was: viewtopic.php?t=86840)

With Logic's built-in instruments, all you have to do in the new implementation is open DMD, click a cell, and access the instrument's interface in the pane below. You can have a mix of Quick Sampler and Drum Synth instruments and access all of them within a single plug-in interface. That's pretty nifty.

Before 10.5, you had to open your DMD track stack to select the first subtrack (Overheads) so that you could open the single multi-out instrument, then figure out what Ultrabeat voice corresponds to which DMD cell. That was pretty clunky.

Apple (and, by extension, the Logic team) have the choice to bow down to how other manufacturers make their plug-ins, and constantly follow the path traced by others, and adapt to their designs. Or make their own designs, make up their own rules, make their own path, letting others free to follow it or not. They've always leaned toward the latter.

Yeah, I'm currently using multiple single-output instances of my 3rd party plugin in DMD, as per that post by dewdman42. (I don't use Scripter, because all that talk about Scripter was a misunderstanding on my part.)

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