Making your own drum library vs chopping every time

i listen to nujabes and a lot of his work uses the same sounds, especially the hi hats, but he layers them differently. but what this does is, it creates this type of "glue" across his work.

the luv (sic) series emphasizes this especially

i like my music to follow a certain feel when it comes to my drums, so over the years, i have saved my favorite drums and layers and re-use them time-to-time

I use to chop every time but now that I have the 4k and you have the ability to save sounds into it the drum breaks are already chopped. Now I just pick in choose from each break sometimes I like the snare of one break then the otherm its all about workflow. The less time you have to over think anything the better

Itskurisu wrote:The less time you have to over think anything the better

no

peace

KOVSHBEATS wrote:When i start making new beat i always prefer to chop a new break/one shots from my vinyl. But i think now that having my own favorite one shots/break chops floppies for my SP1200 and S950 will be truly right choice! I do not use libraries and stuff, only sampling from vinyl. How do you prefer and how do you organize your own libraries on floppies?

I would like to chop all the drums I have and situate them into custom drum packs but I find that 8 times out of 10 I end u sampling them every time I start a track. there has been a few snares and hi-hats I like more than others, which I want to save for easy loading.

peterpiper wrote:

Itskurisu wrote:The less time you have to over think anything the better

no

peace

Explain

I have thousands of one shots, loops and percussions etc. on my PC. I have kits that are recorded from real drums, this is what I use the most. I recently (yesterday) discovered it's key for me to run them through my ASR with different EQ and effect settings to create different samples from 1 "base" sample, layer them (like high, mid, low - reverb, delay, distortion etc.) and resample it. This is what, from now on, I will never stop doing. The drums are getting so thick and real, present but not disturbing and merges better in my mixes as there warmer - more present. Always cut the <100Hz from the kicks.

I never use drum kits, always "create" my own from the super duper 10GB+ drum library I have via resampling. I like to sample from vinyl as well but I don't own much LP's with drum's.

The more I work on my 4K, the more I learn it's key to separate each instument in it's own frequency zone to get enough air, including drums. Sometimes I spending hours just to create samples, not even sequences lol.

It's all about fun!

Itskurisu wrote:

peterpiper wrote:

Itskurisu wrote:The less time you have to over think anything the better

no

peace

Explain

You used this words in a generallized way and thats not true IMO.
Yes it can be really helpful if you're in a musicmakinmood and want to quickly add some drums.
BUT
You (or other peoples) can get really dope stuff by overthinking too. Thinkin about where to chop a sample, thinking more how a sample can be manipulated, thinking about which pitch you should use for the kick, snare, hat whatever (cause there are more than one way to get dope results) etc

Overthinking is a hassle sometimes but on the other hand sometimes it actually IS the workflow.
peace

Cases wrote:Sometimes I spending hours just to create samples, not even sequences lol.

It's all about fun!

^^^This is definitely me!

I like hunting down sounds and cataloging them in folders. It can be anything as long as the quality is good. I tend to create music first, then listen for what type of kick/snare/percussion I feel is appropriate. Sometimes I will use weird things for example a typewriter sound amongst others for percussion. I just like experimenting and enjoying the creative process. I chop drums sometimes when there is a certain feel I'm after if the music tells me that's what it wants. It's all about feeling and what the music I have created asks of me. I guess everyone just has their own "mad scientist" vibe.

I have all my breaks in reason, so I play them against the sample chops. After I find a break thats good, I just use the chops from it to play the drum track out.

I guess I'm one of the only people that uses a drum kit i've set up. Except that I'm constantly changing it, updating the sounds and switching them out when I come across better ones. So I don't feel like i'm constantly reusing the same samples, I have a constantly-revolving go-to drum kit.

Like i have a long deep bass drum sound, I'll use it as the kick on one track, then later i'll find a nice "thud" and layer it on top of the long bass tail, get the tuning and levels right, change the pitch of the bass drum, and by that time I'm making a new track so like it's constantly shifting but I have a library of samples I'm drawing from. It's the same program, and many of the same samples, but it's different too.