Drumagog detects a spike on the audio track and replaces that audio spike with a drum hit. So, if you put Drumagog on a Tom track, you would pick a Tom sample from the application's menu and every time the audio spiked, Drumagog would play its sample instead of the recorded Tom.

It can be that simple to use, but Drumagog is also a full-featured plug-in. You can use the filtering and ducking options that will allow hi-hats to come through the snare microphone, but will replace the sound of the snare itself.

You can even blend the sound of the sample with the original hit if you want, a feature that allows you to really control the sound of the drum kit. You can also adjust the sensitivity of Drumagog to make sure it picks up all of the drum hits on your track.

I recently recorded a song and the kick drum just wasn't powerful enough for my liking. I tried a few things to pump it up a bit like adding a compressor plug-in to the track, and trying parallel compression. (Parallel compression is a process of sending the drums to an auxiliary track, heavily compressing it and mixing that sound back into the mix). Nothing that I tried really gave me the sound I was looking for.

What I did was duplicate the kick track and add Drumagog to that track. I then used one of the kick samples from Steven Slate Drums as my second kick. I adjusted the sensitivity, blended the Drumagog kick with the original kick, and ended up with a nice thick drum sound.