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XLN Metal pak help.

Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2014 7:25 am
by Elessar [Sly]
I am looking for metal drum tracks etc. Can anyone explain how I would intergrate this to work with logic pro 9?

Re: XLN Metal pak help.

Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2014 8:53 am
by nightflameauto
You already have Addictive Drums I'm assuming? That's pretty much all I use for my tracks in Logic 9.

Add Addictive to a MIDI track as a plugin. Pull up a kit in Addictive, then either drop loops from the Addictive loops list onto the midi track, or pull up the piano roll and go to town clicky-clicking. It doesn't take too long to get used to if you just experiment a bit.

Re: XLN Metal pak help.

Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2014 6:15 pm
by Elessar [Sly]
nightflameauto wrote:You already have Addictive Drums I'm assuming? That's pretty much all I use for my tracks in Logic 9.

Add Addictive to a MIDI track as a plugin. Pull up a kit in Addictive, then either drop loops from the Addictive loops list onto the midi track, or pull up the piano roll and go to town clicky-clicking. It doesn't take too long to get used to if you just experiment a bit.


Ahh I don't have addictive (or the metal pak). I saw the metal pack while out and about...

Re: XLN Metal pak help.

Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2014 3:55 pm
by Santuzzo
I use AD with the Metal AdPak and I like it a lot.

But yes, you will need Addictive Drums in order to use the Metal AdPak.

Re: XLN Metal pak help.

Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2014 11:46 pm
by DNW
nightflameauto wrote:You already have Addictive Drums I'm assuming? That's pretty much all I use for my tracks in Logic 9.

Add Addictive to a MIDI track as a plugin. Pull up a kit in Addictive, then either drop loops from the Addictive loops list onto the midi track, or pull up the piano roll and go to town clicky-clicking. It doesn't take too long to get used to if you just experiment a bit.


I'm not a Logic user, but I was under the impression Logic had a proper drum editor screen, instead of having to use the piano roll. :confused:

Re: XLN Metal pak help.

Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 5:09 am
by Elessar [Sly]
Looking into purchasing ezdrummer.

Re: XLN Metal pak help.

Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 8:19 am
by nightflameauto
DNW wrote:
nightflameauto wrote:You already have Addictive Drums I'm assuming? That's pretty much all I use for my tracks in Logic 9.

Add Addictive to a MIDI track as a plugin. Pull up a kit in Addictive, then either drop loops from the Addictive loops list onto the midi track, or pull up the piano roll and go to town clicky-clicking. It doesn't take too long to get used to if you just experiment a bit.


I'm not a Logic user, but I was under the impression Logic had a proper drum editor screen, instead of having to use the piano roll. :confused:


The only "proper" drum editor that Logic Express 8 had (where I started) was a shitty loop editor that really, REALLY sucked for anything beyond the absolute griddiest basics. I got used to the piano roll there and, even though I've heard they added a drum editor, I haven't taken the time to learn it. I can click through a big song pretty quickly the old way. A couple key commands gets me between velocity and movement. What more do I really need?

Re: XLN Metal pak help.

Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2014 8:40 pm
by Markdude
DNW wrote:
nightflameauto wrote:You already have Addictive Drums I'm assuming? That's pretty much all I use for my tracks in Logic 9.

Add Addictive to a MIDI track as a plugin. Pull up a kit in Addictive, then either drop loops from the Addictive loops list onto the midi track, or pull up the piano roll and go to town clicky-clicking. It doesn't take too long to get used to if you just experiment a bit.


I'm not a Logic user, but I was under the impression Logic had a proper drum editor screen, instead of having to use the piano roll. :confused:


The piano roll is pretty much the standard for creating and editing MIDI drums by hand in DAWs. Maybe you're thinking of a step sequencer? Step sequencers are considerably less versatile though.