Beginner’s Guide to Programming Rock/Metal Drums in REAPER (or any other DAW)

I’ve had a few questions about how I approach programming drums, so I thought I’d put together a quick tutorial video for y’all using my new song “Monolith“. Hope you find it helpful! REAPER Note Maps for Toontrack drum libraries (mentioned at 5:55): Intro: 0:00 REAPER: 0:19 Toontrack Superior Drummer 2.0: 1:22 My thought process when programming: 1:59 Creating a MIDI file: 3:50 Inserting plugins: 4:36 Configuring the MIDI editor for drum programming: 5:10 Programming drums: 6:26 Velocities: 7:43 Splitting items: 10:30 Humanizing & Quantizing: 11:12 Tips, tricks & advice: 15:00 Digging into Monolith’s programming: 16:59 Outro: 24:14 Thanks for watching! #reaper #toontrack​ #drumprogramming #tutorial #drums #slatedigital​ #submissionaudio​ #fallenshrines​ #progmetal​ #metal​ #heav