From Mark Stevens Sent Fri, Jun 26th 1998, 01:02
From Mark Stevens Sent Fri, Jun 26th 1998, 01:02
On Thu, 25 Jun 1998 18:39:29 -0400, you wrote: >how _would_ one go about programming d'n'b beats? they always end up >sounding horribly quantized. . . Here's my method: Sample a couple of bars of a drum loop. Chop it up it about four pieces. Give each sample a fast attack and a medium decay. Start recording a bar in your sequencer, using the samples, but have them triggered in random combinations -- some on the beat, some off-beat. Depending on the length of your decay, you'll get all manner of strange rhythms overlapping one another. Play around with the tempo of the track, trigger some samples faster than others. If it gets a bit incoherent, just lay some bog standard loops or programmed rhythms in the background. Try playing one sample at half-speed and trigger normal/faster-speed variations of the same sample over the top. Using this method you can put one single drum loop to no end of uses. /\/)ark http://www.sonance.demon.co.uk/