ABBEY ROAD 70s DRUMMER Explained

If you're looking for some great-sounding vintage-flavored drums for your productions, ABBEY ROAD 70s DRUMMER will certainly fit the bill. And, in this ABBEY ROAD 70s DRUMMER video course, Groove3 instructor Larry Holcombe will quickly get you up to speed on this virtual instrument and have you building professional-sounding drum tracks in no time. From selecting kits or individual drums, to adding effects and more, it's all covered here, with many audio demonstrations along the way. These videos are for new ABBEY ROAD 70s DRUMMER users.

Videos

• Introduction (05:07) - The first video introduces the series, explains the various areas of the interface, and demonstrates how to quickly get grooves going with the plugin.

• Kit Page (07:02) - We cover the Kit tab next and discuss the differences between the two sampled kits in ABBEY ROAD 70s DRUMMER. We then continue on to look at changing individual drum parameters and choosing between our two different snares.

• Mixer (05:44) - Explore the Mixer tab and the parameters relating to creating your drum mix using mixer presets. Learn how to balance close mics against the overheads/rooms and how to control stereo width of the drum blend.

• Effects (12:27) - Next up, we focus on the various effects, including reverb, EQ, transient shaping, compression, and tape saturation. We also discuss the four different effects routings, allowing different configurations to suit varied mixing tasks.

• Grooves (14:42) - This video features the Groove page, which allows us to build whole drum tracks for sessions featuring beat variations, fills, and percussion. We also cover quantization to different grid values, swing, tightness, and velocity.

• Options Page (11:10) - The Options page is covered next, where we can set up velocity so the instrument is as playable as possible. We then investigate the MIDI mapping section, with which we can map instruments to the location that's most convenient to again increase playability.

• Plug-in in Action (06:39) - This final video demonstrates how to build a groove from scratch. We record a beat using the MIDI keyboard and also create grooves by dragging and dropping loops from the browser.