Beat Battle - 280

Super quick microwave beat this week. Short samples and I'm not that creative lol. Enjoy.

hopefully this is better than last week! lol

Levulz2it wrote:

hopefully this is better than last week! lol

The intro and outro felt a bit weak to me, but the rest felt way more cohesive. Really well done. The only thing that might help pull it together a bit more with the drums for me was that the hits all sound the same, and it is really noticable when you rapid fire them off at the same velocity. Might be worth varying the velocity some, or doing some subtle filter sweep or pitch changes, or similar.

My personal rule (and of course rules are meant to be broken) is to not play the exact same sample two (or often worse more) times in a row. By varying the samples volume, pitch, filter cutoff, etc... it makes it harder for your ear to pick it out as a repetitive sound.

Still, really fun submission and hope you keep at it!

NearTao wrote:
The intro and outro felt a bit weak to me, but the rest felt way more cohesive. Really well done. The only thing that might help pull it together a bit more with the drums for me was that the hits all sound the same, and it is really noticable when you rapid fire them off at the same velocity. Might be worth varying the velocity some, or doing some subtle filter sweep or pitch changes, or similar.

My personal rule (and of course rules are meant to be broken) is to not play the exact same sample two (or often worse more) times in a row. By varying the samples volume, pitch, filter cutoff, etc... it makes it harder for your ear to pick it out as a repetitive sound.

Still, really fun submission and hope you keep at it!

yeah i didnt know what to do with the intro and outro, i was lacking for sure. as far as the drums i got a mpc1k with the individual style pads and they work good on full level but theyre pretty worn as far as picking up velocity. i need to get a pad upgrade kit, i ordered all new tact switches because a few of them like mode and down arrow have to be pushed at a certain angle in order to work as well.

can a filter sweep be done on the 1k? i dont know much about that lol but will definitely look into it! As far as playing the same sample twice, i never did outside of the drums. all the melodic stuff was a different chop everytime. anyway thanks for criticism! and im definitely going to keep at it!

The Q-Links can definitely be used to record automation of various kinds. I've been running JJOS OS3 on my 1k, and it has many many parameters you can modulate.

NearTao wrote:The Q-Links can definitely be used to record automation of various kinds. I've been running JJOS OS3 on my 1k, and it has many many parameters you can modulate.

Do you have the paid or free version? I'm running the free version rn..thinking about getting the paid version but $123 isn't exactly peanuts lol

I have the paid version, to me it was worth the money for the added features and benefits.

NearTao wrote:I have the paid version, to me it was worth the money for the added features and benefits.

Heard..im gonna have to cop that then..one feature I like is the play and chop (I think thats what its called)

I bent the rules, used a very short waveform from the samples to use in a keygroup to create synth sounds, also added delay. Pretty much aped the entire drum sample because it was better than anything I can boom bap.

Seem that the battle area is pretty alive atm Thats good!

peace

I'm just chilling tonight, but maybe I'll work on my beat tomorrow. Forget a polished sound. I'm about to make a super grimy beat out of this happy go lucky sample.