Customizing a Drum Kit Designer drum kit

Now that you understand how Drummer works, let's explore all the ways you can change the drum kit itself.

The East Bay preset in the Library opens a drum kit with an EQ, compressor, and bus send to a reverb. If you press the letter B, the Smart Controls for this preset open.

Here, you will see an easy way to adjust levels within the kit, turn off kit pieces, and adjust the amount of compression or turn it off. The Tone knob relates to the EQ, and the Room knob affects the amount of bus send to the reverb.

I suggest you cycle a Drummer region and click on the FX plugins to open them, then resize them on your screen by grabbing the lower right-hand corner. Now, adjust the Smart Control knobs in real time, listening to the changes in the sound and observing the changes you see in the plugin windows. Fifteen minutes of doing so will teach you more than I can about processing drum kit sounds in 200 words in this book:

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