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180Logic Pro Instruments
Logic Pro Drum Machine Designer interface
The Drum Machine Designer interface is divided into the following main areas and
elements.
Kit controls bar: A collection of kit pieces is known as a kit. Click the kit name pad or
the Kit Controls button on the kit controls bar above the grid to interact with global
effects and control settings for the entire kit in the Smart Controls pane, if visible. See
Manage Drum Machine Designer kits.
Grid: Each pad offers its own kit piece or sound. Drum and percussion kit pieces
assigned to pads can be either synthetically generated or sample-based. In fact, you
can assign and use any instrument or plug-in you have at your disposal to a pad. Click
the speaker icon on a pad to play the assigned sound. Click the icon or background
of a pad to interact with its controls in the Smart Controls pane. You can mute, solo,
reorder, replace, and change the sound of each kit piece you have assigned to each
pad. You can also assign each pad to different input and output MIDI note numbers and
to different groups. See
Manage Drum Machine Designer kits and
Use Drum Machine Designer pad controls.
Pad controls bar: The Drum Machine Designer interface shows kit pieces laid out as
pads in a grid that spans multiple pages. Click the page switcher controls (circles
or arrows) on the pad controls bar below the grid to switch between pages. The pad
controls bar also contains buttons that change the view shown in the Smart Controls
pane. See
Drum Machine Designer Pad controls bar.
Smart Controls/Plug-in pane: Smart Controls parameters update when you select a kit
or kit piece, mirroring the Logic Pro Smart Controls pane. See Kit Tone and Effect Smart
Controls and Kit Piece Tone and Effect Smart Controls.
Note: If a Drum Machine Designer subtrack or pad uses a Quick Sampler or Drum Synth
plug-in, you will see additional Q-Sampler Main, Q-Sampler Details, or Drum Synth view
buttons alongside the Pad Controls button in the
Drum Machine Designer Pad controls bar below the grid. Use these to access the
respective instrument plug-in interface and parameters. See Drum Synth overview and
Quick Sampler overview.