By cleansocks
Mon Feb 15, 2021 8:56 am
Cockdiesel wrote:Trap beats are pretty easy.... note repeat on the high hats, kick and snare, one or two chords. It’s pretty simple stuff.
I’d suggest starting at 150, 8 bars, laying down high hats at 1/8th notes, making a melody then putting your kick and snare in to taste. Double up the sequence and erase some high hats and make 1/16th and 32nd note rolls based on the flavor you want. There’s no way dragging and dropping is as fun or even that much quicker.
You just got to find a work flow that works for you. It’s really not much different than making boom bap.
Do you have a keyboard hooked up to your MPC?
i do not have a keyboard but i took your advice and yeah note repeat really makes stuff easier in this regard, i guess its mainly the 808s im having trouble with positioning because i know the bass is critical to part of a sound and well rn it sounds kinda clunky on my machine on some of my sounds whereas u go on youtube people are loading in clean, nice no-artifact sounds and that is something that kinda grinds my gears cuz rn... that and positioning my beat like the arrangement wise - composition wise kind of thing but thats really more of a me problem. rn im jus worried about these 808s i can learn the other part.