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Title of the thread pretty much covers this. I’m learning to use Logic Pro X. The drummer tool/module, while very cool in many ways, is mostly lacking in terms of anything that resembles a good swinging jazz drummer. The universe of available third-party jazz drum loop packages is overwhelming. I’m looking for advice on options for a basic package that covers ballads to uptempo swing (but no need for blazingly fast). Any advice from those who have had experience with this? Again, I need Apple Loops, or if I understand correctly, AIFF format also works. Thanks!
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02-15-2024 08:31 AM
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Did you try Googling "Jazz Drum Loops for Apple"?
jazz drum loops for apple at DuckDuckGo
there might be something there that you want.
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Yes, of course I did. My point was that there are a lot of choices out there and I was hoping that I might benefit from others’ personal experiences. But thanks for the suggestion!
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Originally Posted by kevmoga
Another resource is Youtube.
Instead of asking others opinion, use your own ear as you will be the final judge of what you want.
Just trying to help.
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Originally Posted by Doug B
I've used Beta Monekey Jazz Essentials (Jazz Drum Loops - Beta Monkey). These are a complete performance that you can chop op and re-organize for you own purposes. They also include individual hits (e.g., crashes). It sounds good, but it's a fair amount of work to slice and dice it into something suited to your own song.
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Originally Posted by John A.
It ain't rocket surgery!!!
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Originally Posted by Doug B
Last edited by John A.; 02-17-2024 at 02:12 PM.
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Thanks for the beta monkey suggestion, I’ll check it out. Sound samples are just the tip of the iceberg, those are the kind of details I was hoping to glean from other users’ experiences.
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Don’t know if this helps, but the Drumgenius app is a fairly inexpensive way of getting a lot of jazz drum loops in all sorts of tempos and styles. Only downside is that the loops are not exportable directly, so I record them to my PC from the headphone output of my ipad, then import them into Reaper, where I can edit them, stretch them, etc. as needed. Works well enough for my purposes.
To add specific hits, crashes etc. I sometimes use the virtual drum kits in garageband on my ipad and record that out the same way, does the job.
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Originally Posted by grahambop
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Originally Posted by John A.
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Originally Posted by grahambop
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Originally Posted by kevmoga
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I was struggling to programme some jazz drums in Garage Band, not easy .
Eventually I bought Band in a box ( simple version ) from this site .
It's been one month that Iam using it , till now only for practice, Iam very satisfied .
There are a lot of Jazz real drums samples for my needs.
You can change the tempo,of course samples that for example have been recorded on 140 could sound good between 110 -160 and e.t.c.
This is from the manual of BIAB :
With the Direct Render to Disk feature, you can save your files directly as audio files (AIFF, M4A, WAV), for use in other programs (GarageBand, Cubase, etc.), or in Internet formats.
I didn't try it yet.
All the real tracks in B-i-a-Box have sheet , it is very helpful, if you want to read and use the notes to programme drums in GB or LP.
Anyway , good luck !
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Originally Posted by grahambop
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Can’t say I’ve noticed that much of a difference, it’s more like the loops gradually drift away from the tempo I have set in Reaper if I let them run a long time. I’ll check it again against my metronome.
But in any case, in Reaper it’s easy to drag the envelope of a short recorded drum audio segment so that it time-stretches it, so it doesn’t really take much effort to line it up with the tempo grid. Then holding down Ctrl+D duplicates it to the end of the track.
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Good tip on keeping the loops short. When I first started exploring Logic, I just let Drumgenius run on for the whole recording and found the tempo drift issues mentioned. I’ll try the short loop and quantize approach.
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