Cut Chemist with 20 minutes of drums. Enjoy
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YEAH x 1000
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Is there any hardware gear that would make sense for creating remixes?
I’ve done one release of remixes and using the DAW was pretty darn convenient for lining up acapellas on a grid, etc.
I’ve been tempted recently to get into using some hardware for production, but curious if anything besides DAW would make sense for the vocal part.
Cheers
I don’t know how good it is in practice but I did see this yesterday. You get those scratch effects over the vocal as well, which could be good for doing glitchy stuff. Maybe one of the big MPCs would be better? I have no experience with those.
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My collaboration with Cornish turntable tickler, Joe Clockwork, is out on Weaponize Records as part of their mix CD series. I made all the beats by sampling Stephen King adaptation soundtracks; Joe did all the cuts, executed the mix and a load of other stuff besides.
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Might as well post this here too: a beat tape I made sampling stuff off the radio
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Hey folks, looking for beat production advice.
I love everything about making beats - my current workflow is within DAW, and using some hardware synth and pedals at times - except for drums.
I don’t enjoy selecting or editing drums in my DAW. For starters, I’m not good at it. These days I have pretty limited time for music production, and it also feels like getting really good drums takes a ton of time and precision that I just don’t feel like I have.
For a while I’ve been wondering if there are hardware solutions that would make the drum sound design of beat making more fun for me. Just curious if anybody has been down this road or can recommend some specific hardware or workflows, or if I am just chasing my own tail and need to just put my nose to the grindstone a little more.
Thanks
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Take a drum loop, slice it into 8, 16, or 32 chops. Now just make a midi clip/sequence with the same amount of notes as slices. From there you can rearrange the slices to make variations on that beat. (double the bpm and now you are making Jungle) Even though there are plenty of ready made drum loops out there, the best results are always the tried and true classics. Anyway this is the minimal amount of effort you could do to get a beat going that has swing and groove yet lines up perfectly on a grid
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For whatever it’s worth, my personal approach to drums is twofold:
- Layering
- Processing
Chopping up loops is an excellent way to preserve the feel of a groove. Augmenting them with other hits will make the sound more your own (percussion, foley sounds, random other noises - whatever works for you). Then processing them through effects will glue them together and push them into becoming something new.
I’ve used a load of different pieces of hardware (and software) but method remains the same on all of them at the end of the day.
These days I start most things on my phone and then process it all, add cuts and synths etc and finish it off in Live.
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My favorite technique for a long time now has been very simple and very effective.
First of all, choose a good kick and a good snare and place them fairly simply. Then choose a drumloop, stretch it, and set up a sidechain with the kick and the snare, adjusting the sidechain decay more or less to let the beat breathe just right.
The drumloop will fade out and then return with each kick and snare hit, bringing a different groove. It works very well, the key is to choose your samples carefully.
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hey, it’s been awhile. just wanted to stop by and check on folks. you all good? it’s been cool to see the beat battles still going. finding time to make anything has been difficult lately. time is the finite resource, and i’ve been spending it elsewhere. this is a great community. kudos to everybody for keeping it going!
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Good to hear from you man! Missed you at the battles, I’d be cool if you joined some time again but yeah, time is precious.
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Hope you can make some beats again eventually dude. I remember you using addictive drums or whatever the plugin was (that shit sounded good). You always brought so much creativity to your beats, which is something I admire.
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Knocking off some rust after a month or so hiatus! but happy to back at it in the SP-forums Arena!
Hope you dig!
(2) SP-303s, SP-404,SP-404MKII
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Free drum loops I did with a gretsch kit into the Chandler Redd 47 special edition. I think the bass lift knob really helps with the low end. Enjoy the loops and chop away.
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OOH Thanks!!!
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Some hypnotic open looping (dakim style):
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Much appreciated, mate - thank you!
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A half-ass attempt at a tornado was enough to keep me up all last night, made the most of it with Nas and AZ and some samples from Dorthy Ashby, the other amazing harpist from the60s/70s
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