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Freeware electronic music producer.
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Quarl
I used full drum loops (samples) 15 years ago in highschool with GarageBand. Gotta start somewhere and no one will get mad hearing any of the classic jungle drum loops. Over the years I moved towards breaking up samples into smaller and smaller kit pieces. GarageBand also had MIDI preset drum instruments whose samples could be rearranged to make new rhythms and melodies. It takes alot of practice, learning, and creativity but having complete fidelity control over every piece of the drum kit and every note location opens doors to fusing other genres and styles. IMO, the drums are the most important element in any EDM genre.
A technique to start toying with is layering. I usually stack three snare drums to make "new" samples. I've learned to merge all the separate snare drum signals into a series of fidelity units for total tonal control. From the drum machine, each individual snare drum can be pitch bent or modulated. Additional effects can be sent via the aux sends.
I'm not familiar with the program in the video but it looks like it can do alot. Challenge yourself, make some hip hop beats. All you need to make beats is a good bass drum, a hi hat, and a snare :3
Rakshal
Just did a loop with the breaks here just to get a proof of concept, I plan on chopping it up when I get back to doing this stuff. I mean the break chopping is the fun part of breakbeat oriented genres (even if it takes forever with my program lmao). Honestly I don't see myself ever moving away from breakbeat samples though, I just love the jungle and breakcore sound too much.
Layering is something I'm still very new to, I've only really layered 2 samples/one shots at a time so far. Want to do it more one I get better at sound design though. And I definitely want to get into making some hip hop, especially the more experimental or industrial stuff kind like Enduser's older work. Though I'm not sure it would be hip hop with no vocals. Downtempo? Post-industrial?