DRUMLAB Explained

Native Instruments DRUMLAB is your very own evil lab for creating monster drum sounds and kits. Let mad drum scientist Eli Krantzberg show you how to pump new life into your productions and songs with this electrifying virtual drum instrument!

Videos

• Introduction (02:31) - Get a quick overview of the three main areas of the interface.

• Jump Start (06:02) - Start layering sounds, previewing grooves, and saving presets right away.

• The Kit Page (06:30) - Learn how to use the effects to blend and shape the balance between the stereo overhead, mono overhead, and mono room microphone mixes.

• The Instruments (04:14) - See how the individual instrument controls are used to shape the direct sound of each kit and percussion piece.

• The Grooves Page (06:25) - Explore the bundled MIDI drum grooves and see how the performance parameters are used to alter the feel of the variations.

• The Options Page (05:16) - Learn how to customize note mappings, adjust the velocity curve of each note either for corrective or creative purposes, and how to optimize the memory demands of DRUMLAB.

• Single Instrument Setup (05:25) - See how to set up a multi timbral multi output version of DRUMLAB with each individual kit piece loaded as a separate instrument, each receiving input on a unique MIDI channel, and outputting signal to separate channel strips in Logic Pro X.

• Working With Single Instruments (08:32) - See how the instrument controls are laid out on the single instrument versions of some of the DRUMLAB kit pieces.