Drum Machine Designer interface in Logic Pro for Mac
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 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 Drum Machine Designer grid kit controls.
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 Drum Machine Designer grid kit controls 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 grid 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 Drum Machine Designer Kit Piece Controls in Logic Pro for Mac.
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.