About Multi-Out

IconDrum offers stereo multichannel outputs for each of the channels and 2 FX channels. The outputs act like mixer style pre-fader sends and are not affected by the channel’s volume, mute or solo settings, and do not pass through the master FX chain in IconDrum.

Setting up an individual output in your DAW does not automatically prevent it from also coming out of the main stereo out. This allows for parallel processing, but means you’ll need to mute the channel in IconDrum if you only want to use the individual out.

Enabling Multi-Out

Click the cog icon in IconDrum’s header bar to open the settings window and enable multi-out support. This setting will be recalled across instances.

<aside> ⚠️ Note that in Logic Pro, this setting does not close and load the multi-channel version of IconDrum. If you’ve enabled this setting on the stereo only version you’ll need to now load the multi-channel version to use it.

Other DAWs appear to exclusively load the multi-channel version if available and the multiple outputs will be available immediately.

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Outputs

The 15 outputs are hardwired in this order:

  1. Master
  2. Bass
  3. Snare
  4. Sidestick
  5. Hi-Hat
  6. Toms (all together)
  7. Ride
  8. Crash
  9. Cabasa
  10. Tambourine
  11. Congas (both together)
  12. Cowbell
  13. Claps
  14. Delay
  15. Reverb

How to use multi-out in popular DAWs

The following instructions assume that you’ve already enabled multi-out as described above.

Cubase

  1. Create a new instrument track with IconDrum loaded.

  2. Click the drop-down menu on the left next to the track edit “e” icon.

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  3. Click the outputs in this list that you’d like to enable. They’ll be added to your Cubase mixer window as separate channels.

Logic Pro

  1. Create a new instrument track with the IconDrum Multi-Output (15xStereo) option loaded.

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  2. In the mixer view, click the + button in the bottom right corner, above the solo button, on the channel to expand the individual outs in order. Use the - button to remove them.

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Ableton Live

  1. Load IconDrum onto a new MIDI track.
  2. Create up to 14 audio tracks.