One way to get more out of your drums sounds is to alternate the pitch of your sounds throughout a sequence. Something that I do (on some of my beats), is I slightly change the pitch of the kick at certain times within the drum pattern. This gives my drums a more natural, non-mechanical feel, and it helps with the rhythm of my beats...
Does anyone else use this technique or one similar?
One way to get more out of your drums sounds is to alternate the pitch of your sounds throughout a sequence. Something that I do (on some of my beats), is I slightly change the pitch of the kick at certain times within the drum pattern. This gives my drums a more natural, non-mechanical feel, and it helps with the rhythm of my beats...
Does anyone else use this technique or one similar?
-Sa'id
I've never tried that, but what I do do is that when i'm doing some kind of drum fill, I will put the some of the filling snares at different pitches to give it a more "drummer-like" feel. I learned this from the RZA while listening to "7th Chamber pt 1"...
Velocity is really a different matter; velocity speaks to the volume level of sound when the drum pad is hit. For certain effects, I also manipulate the velocity to...
Velocity is really a different matter; velocity speaks to the volume level of sound when the drum pad is hit. For certain effects, I also manipulate the velocity to...
-Sa'id
I know but Ive heard of cats that tie the two together velocity and pitch. Which does make sense when you think about it for instance the harder you hit a snare drum not only the volume level goes up but the higher the pitch will be as well.
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Last edited by The Beat Pharmacy : 05-11-2009 at 03:48 PM.
I know but Ive heard of cats that tie the two together velocity and pitch. Which does make sense when you think about it for instance the harder you hit a snare drum not only the volume level goes up but the higher the pitch will be as well.
I see what you're saying... There's some truth to that, I mean the lighter you hit the pad, the shorter the sustain, while the heavier you hit the pad the longer the sustain. However, that being said, the richness of the sound is lost the lower the velocity, which means, the impact might not resonate as intended...
I see what you're saying... There's some truth to that, I mean the lighter you hit the pad, the shorter the sustain, while the heavier you hit the pad the longer the sustain. However, that being said, the richness of the sound is lost the lower the velocity, which means, the impact might not resonate as intended...
-Sa'id
I tried this in the past using NI Battery with some nice results. I havent done it yet on the mpc cause I dont think you can tie velocity to pitch on the mpc 1000 unless you are using the jj os. Here a very informative video on that subject that also touches on simult pad, velocity layers, and adsr
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I tried this in the past using NI Battery with some nice results. I havent done it yet on the mpc cause I dont think you can tie velocity to pitch on the mpc 1000 unless you are using the jj os. Here a very informative video on that subject that also touches on simult pad, velocity layers, and adsr
Now, I see what you mean... simultaneous layering, is something I've also done. But I've never "tied" pitch to velocity... I wonder if you can do it on the MPC 4000???
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