How to humanize your drums: 3 ways to breathe life into your MIDI From manipulating velocity to adding ghost notes, learn about three key techniques that will help you humanize your MIDI drums. How to make a lo-fi beat: Origin Sound on the genre’s key sounds and production tricks ...
When you have decent sample packs, stock one-shot sampler plug-ins like Simpler in Ableton Live become powerful beat production tools. Although the tools are different than those of a synthesis engine, you still have the means to alter the pitch and completely reshape the envelope of a sound...
Right now, your options include Ableton Live 11 Intro, Standard and Pro. You can also get your hands on Ableton Live Lite (a lighter version of the software) with aLANDR Studio subscription. Ableton is not free, so be prepared to budget for the DAW. If you need advice, check out ourb...
We settled on a format where we each sent the other two ‘sketches’, basically 1-2 minute long ideas with drums, bass, chords, and a melody in a quick arrangement. Basically the intro into the first drop. Then, we each picked one of the two ideas to move forward with and build int...
Read - How to Use Ableton Drum Racks Once you have sample pads that trigger sounds, it’s time to actually find (or create) the sounds you’ll use to play your finger drums. This collection of sounds is what’s called your drum rack, a minimum of 16 sounds mapped to the 16 sample...
However, do this with a level control plugin (like Ableton Live’s “Utility”) rather than the channel fader, as if you want to adjust the levels in the mix later on, you’re gonna have to move all the automation on your channel fader (and that’s a massive pain!). This technique...
How to Make a Beat in Reason Here is an example of how to make a beat. Even though the beat below is made in Propellerhead Reason, the same thought process can be applied to other music programs and hardware. Lay out your drums, add instruments, and arrange your beat into a full song...
Drums (especially snare) Much like vocals, in modern music productions, the snare is usually balanced in a place of prominence amongst the rest of the arrangement. Sometimes, in order to get a snare drum to cut through, whether the drum is acoustic or synthesized, drastic measures need to ...
The Rhythm Waveform is a visual representation of the rhythm of the track that is being played. It is used to help you keep in time with the track. The Rhythm Waveform is divided into four sections, the bass, the drums, the lead, and the rhythm. Each section is represented by a diffe...
It has some fairly good guitar sims curtesy of Kuassa but nothing like say Overloud TH-U which is a great program. That leaves CbB with all the trimmings of SPLAT plus Overloud TH-U and Addictive Drums. Anyway, the TL;DR question...Is it worth it given my stated skills and goals ...