Creating drums from a sample

SteveC · Post by **SteveC** » Fri Apr 24, 2009 5:48 pm

Pretty Straight forward tips to get you started creating drums from almost any sample.

Hi Hat:
First thing is to find something hard and snappy in the sample and trim it right down. Add some 12 (12 = Comp - mostly for attack) to give it more attack to you feel its right.

Add some reverb etc to get your desired sound but keep the original sample you created as you can use it to create the others.

Snare:
The HH with some reverb.

Bass Drum:
HH with some sub bass and reverb

Bongo:
Start with the bass drum and use 18 (ring Mod) to get the sound started. A bit of 16 can help with the sound too.

Use 19 (Chromatic PS) or 20 (Voice Transformer) to change the pitch - I find 19 (Chromatic PS) useful for pitching all my samples.

They won't be amazing drums to start with but with some tweeking you'll be surprised at what you can get. Use 13 (Equalizer) (radio tuning can also help out) to remove the unwated frequencies for each drum part.

elhuana · Post by **elhuana** » Fri Apr 24, 2009 7:33 pm

N thats how Uncle Steve made his drums for the present beat battle ( YEAH, WE NEED YOUR VOTE!! )

Thanks for the tips Steve!

hurlingdervish · Post by **hurlingdervish** » Fri Apr 24, 2009 7:46 pm

i thought the numbers 19 etc were frequencies (19k).

maybe you should say what the effects are instead of assuming we have the sp xxx

if i knew what the effects were id say good shit man!

SteveC · Post by **SteveC** » Fri Apr 24, 2009 8:06 pm

hurlingdervish wrote:i thought the numbers 19 etc were frequencies (19k).

maybe you should say what the effects are instead of assuming we have the sp xxx

if i knew what the effects were id say good shit man!

I'm just a lazy thats all

- Update above fo y'all listening pleasure.

hurlingdervish · Post by **hurlingdervish** » Fri Apr 24, 2009 8:56 pm

cool beans mang. ill be trying the hihat + verb = snare trick soon.

SteveC · Post by **SteveC** » Fri Apr 24, 2009 9:42 pm

hurlingdervish wrote:cool beans mang. ill be trying the hihat + verb = snare trick soon.

No worries, look forward to hearing your beats.

Try a bit of delay or echo as well as the reverb for the snare with maybe a bit of sub bass thrown in for fun.

Most of all have fun playing

Euclid Ov Oåklånd · Post by **Euclid Ov Oåklånd** » Fri Apr 24, 2009 9:51 pm

Nice info, thanks. Juxt also made a video on youtube showing how he makes drums out of any noise for battles so y'all can peep that if your a visual learner like myself.

GARF13LD · Post by **GARF13LD** » Fri Apr 24, 2009 9:54 pm

thanks for these tips, im definitley going to give these try.

duende3000 · Post by **duende3000** » Tue Nov 24, 2009 6:45 pm

newbie question here: after each piece has been tweaked, you gotta re-sample it with the new fx on it, yeah? bc the 404 only plays one fx per pad....true?

thanks amigos

Dr. Tad Winslow · Post by **Dr. Tad Winslow** » Tue Nov 24, 2009 7:35 pm

duende3000 wrote:newbie question here: after each piece has been tweaked, you gotta re-sample it with the new fx on it, yeah? bc the 404 only plays one fx per pad....true?

Correct. You would put the effect you want on the sample, resample it to another pad, and then that frees up the effects again to add a new effect to the resampled pad or another sample altogether...

duende3000 · Post by **duende3000** » Wed Nov 25, 2009 1:16 am

check und dubL check. thanks for the reply.

Mr. Davenport · Post by **Mr. Davenport** » Thu Nov 26, 2009 8:28 am

I just made a kit as follows:

kick- pounding my fists together+compression/isolator/reverb
hats- shaking a handful of coins
snare-clunking two TV remotes together+resampled with coin sample and several efx

FUN!!!

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