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STEP 7: More advanced use of your Hit Kit
Logic is used by professional record producers and song writers - the more time you spend
on it, the more professional your music will sound. One great thing you can do is include
pre-recorded music in your own songs (sampling). The Hit Kit includes some samples for
you to try - don’t worry if this takes time - it’s worth it!
Using the audio CD
The audio CD has 19 fantastic drum and percussion samples. You can, of course, just play
it in a CD player in the normal way and sing along. However, if you want to include one of
the CD’s drum and percussion samples in Logic for a song, you first need to extract the
sample from the CD in a form (called a WAV file) that can be stored on your computer and
used in Logic. To do this, you need a piece of software called an audio extraction or ‘ripping’
program. If you do not already have this software on your computer, you can download the
Hit Kit Ripper from the Hit Kit website (see below).
Downloading and using the Hit Kit Ripper
1) Go to www.dk.com/hitkit and click on the Download Hit Kit Ripper link.
2) You will receive a message, “You have chosen to download a file from this location. What
would you like to do with it?” Choose the Save this to disk option and click OK. Choose
where you want to download the file to, and click Save.
3) On your computer, find the hit_ripper_setup file you have just downloaded and double-
click on it to install the program.
4) Follow the instructions that appear on your screen.
5) When set-up is complete, open the program by going to Start > Programs > Hit Ripper >
Hit Ripper.
6) Place the audio CD into the CD drive of your computer. (If an audio player program
automatically opens to start playing the samples on the CD, close it.)
7) On the Hit Kit Ripper screen, click the Select Folder button to choose where you want to
save the WAV files.
8) Now just click the Rip CD button. All 19 of the samples from the audio CD will be saved
to your selected folder as WAV files called Track 1, Track 2, and so on. This may take up to
20 minutes, depending on the speed of your computer.
Using your own audio extraction software
You may want to use your own audio extraction software to rip a sample from the audio CD.
If so, it is very important that you extract the sample in WAV format, NOT as an MP3 file.
Make sure you select the WAV file format in the Options or Preferences of the Ripping
program.