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legend4ry wrote:^

If you had a slightly different sounding snare for every 2nd hit.. Added a hat instead of a shaker and maybe a perc on the off beat that'll sound sick.

Cool. I just picked some random hits tbh. I was in the middle of trying out "go to my pc" from work so thought I would see if I could get sound working and I did. Tried to add some bass (think I muted it) but impossible on works pc speakers.

Whats up with my soundcloud? says I have exceeded my upload limit. I have not used it in ages and just deleted some bis from there thinking it would let me then add more but its saying naaa. No contacts on soundcloud help either...?!

simple is best! knocked this one out while waiting for some rice to finish cooking

http://www.sendspace.com/file/xpz73v

cloak and dagger wrote:simple is best! knocked this one out while waiting for some rice to finish cooking

http://www.sendspace.com/file/xpz73v

Gives so much groove too!


One of my favourite 2step beats which is ultra simple is..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdcEljLBRCk


It never got a release .


Its all about studying.. even if you download virutal DJ and bring it down to a slow tempo to analyse the beats.. They really ain't 'that' difficult.

enough of the drum loops! Lets get the big guns out, wheres the basslines ?:)

my WIP:

http://www36.zippyshare.com/v/45753573/file.html

had a go at some 2 step, bit lazy but its here if anyones interested http://soundcloud.com/ascent92/dusk-to-dawn

probably my favourite genre at the moment.

That's some pretty awesome shit you got going there Ascent.

ascent wrote:had a go at some 2 step, bit lazy but its here if anyones interested http://soundcloud.com/ascent92/dusk-to-dawn

probably my favourite genre at the moment.

ahh nice man, how did you make that chord stab sound?

ascent wrote:had a go at some 2 step, bit lazy but its here if anyones interested http://soundcloud.com/ascent92/dusk-to-dawn

probably my favourite genre at the moment.

Liking the drums! your doing something with them drums I have been trying to work out

How many drums have you got going on there? would love to see what it looks like because my ears are playing tricks on me I think.

I can hum it but I cannot get it down. Something going on between the main snare hits I think it is. Is there some other snares or percs at a low velocity or something?

cheers, didn't think people would like it haha.
stab is just a chopped up string sample.
I didn't have many drums going on to be honest just a loop, 4 or 5 hi hats, one kick and a couple of rimshots + snare. low velocity snares between the main hits were pretty much randomly placed. shortened all the samples to make them snappier. lots of swing.

ascent wrote:cheers, didn't think people would like it haha.
stab is just a chopped up string sample.
I didn't have many drums going on to be honest just a loop, 4 or 5 hi hats, one kick and a couple of rimshots + snare. low velocity snares between the main hits were pretty much randomly placed. shortened all the samples to make them snappier. lots of swing.

Cool. All you need is a loop for the drums anyway. Its those rims I liked! were they all quantized? only the one snare tho yeh?

yeah put it together on a 16 step sequencer. also I think I low passed the hi hats slightly, I think it sounds better that way.

edit: yes one snare. but I had lp filters on them so they were slightly different depending on velocity.

ascent wrote:yeah put it together on a 16 step sequencer. also I think I low passed the hi hats slightly, I think it sounds better that way.

edit: yes one snare. but I had lp filters on them so they were slightly different depending on velocity.

I said on here about 12 months ago asking if Synkro/Burial lo passed his hi hats and I got lol'd off so I never gave it a go! If thats what you have done it sounds much better to me! need to get home and give it a go, I think I know where I have been going wrong with a few things.

Why would the snare sound different because of the velocity? not sure what you mean it sounds different?

I don't know if they do, I just like the sound of less airy hats.
I made the lower velocity snares have a lower low pass on them, they stuck out too much otherwise.

ascent wrote:I don't know if they do, I just like the sound of less airy hats.
I made the lower velocity snares have a lower low pass on them, they stuck out too much otherwise.

ah I know what you mean.

ascent wrote:cheers, didn't think people would like it haha.
stab is just a chopped up string sample.
I didn't have many drums going on to be honest just a loop, 4 or 5 hi hats, one kick and a couple of rimshots + snare. low velocity snares between the main hits were pretty much randomly placed. shortened all the samples to make them snappier. lots of swing.

like a string sample played from a sampler, or like real string recording you have chopped up? have you like pitched it down or anything? sorry to distract from the talk about beats haha

found a string sample, well it was more like an orchestral stab - I just pitched it down about an octave, high passed at about 200hz and added some reverb and chorus. reversed parts to fill the sound out a bit.