Drums, what's the easiest DAW?

Studio One

Get the XO drum from XLN

use fl
get a plugin

Back in the day I used EZDrummer and Superior Drummer 2, by Toontrack for Metal. It had amazing midi drum mapper called Ezplayer I believe. It was so easy you could make the best sounding drums: this was in 2007 or so. I’m sure there’s much better drums now. Good luck.

Its VST interface was great.

This was windows XP 32bit VST stuff.

Last Edited by 47Cide on 02/05/2024 07:38 AM

Thanks guys will look them up.
I have plenty of samples, it's just the patterns I can't get my head around.

Superior Drummer 3 is amazing, you can use it stand alone without opening your DAW, lots great realistic drumkits, sounds and tons of pre-loaded grooves you can mess with. The only negative is that it costs about $350, but its worth it

EZ Drummer and XO XLN are all I need

Wait... Superior Drummer. EZ is Good too. But I rock Superior with a bunch of packages and XO XLN. Studio One DAW when set up correctly is the best imo. Fl Studio is built for what you're looking for but I think it's better with Studio One and good plugins

Well I will re-phrase that.
I write music electronically on PC.
I compose music, I write the vocals lines and lyrics, I sing, I play bass and guitar and synth /keys in real life...lol.
But love the immediacy of writing new experimental dance and chill music in a DAW....just crap at drums...I can't be good at everything.

You need to get Waves plug-in pack. This will allow you to get good at using compression or compressors and other distortion which will be applied in the VST instrument within the daw chain.

This will give your drums the lush electronic sound like Agonize, Leather Strip, and other relative bands and their distinctive drum sounds.

Last Edited by 47Cide on 02/05/2024 08:10 AM

literally any daw is going to have template drums and a similar interface, likely you’ll need a plug in if you want not generic sounding stuff though

Yes, you are bang on. I am pretty good at production but mastering is another art/experience. I need to learn how to use a compressor correctly.

Any DAW that supports importing MIDI files can do this.
Then you can use a VSTi drum machine, or use sampled sounds for each track or channel piano roll pattern.

PreSonus Studio One.
Cakewalk Sonar.
Image Line Fl Studio.

1. Get ableton
2. Get a drum loop
3. Extract the groove + midi
4. Now you have a beat just change the samples

Get a funny suit.

Then slay.

Use one drum and wait thats how it goes in space ?

I dont get it...nobody uses a synthesizer with amazing sound effect loops,its all oscillator this that.

Presonus Studio One 3

For $19 a month you get every produc5 they make.

Presonus.com

I can play and program a synth no problem, being doing that live and on PC for years. Just don't understand drum patterns.

Drums are my issue as well. I bought a full electronic drum kit and have been learning. It is hard and there is also a very slight delay I have worked around and almost completely gone now and is grooveable. I keep reading you can use the midi controller to a midi mapper to get rid of delay entirely I don’t get how you do this though. Seems really confusing. I am using the unlocked student version of reaper which I have used for years and really like. I hear you though in super good at guitar but drums are the bane of my existence and it’s the most important part of making a professional sounding song and there so few good drummers out there.

Ableton Ableton Ableton Ableton
You will not need any plug ins. The built in drum extraction is fire. Grab any sample and extract the drums. Then you can edit the midi file as you like. You have limitless sample importing. You could even make your own sounds using the built in instruments.
As with any DAW you will never get anywhere unless you learn a DAW. Ableton is truly the most powerful out there.

I have everything mentioned but my recommendation for you is Unison Drum Monkey and using it it Pro tools First Free Version.

XO XLN insane VST lol

Ableton, 100%.

I have Ableton...it's an easy workflow for me and light on the CPU.
Tried Cubase but lost the will to live and inspiration.

Ableton and I have decided to give 'Drum Computer' by Sugar Bytes a go. Looks just about my level.