Writing a track.

this may be a stupid ? but you all seperate your sound s right, i mean into seperate trcks right like you say hit hats on one trck, snare on another ,and so on. or do you do the kick and snare on the same trck and hi hats ,cymbals on another. i'm tring to understand this, my brain is a lil slow to much smoka da maui wowwee in da past.

i normaly start with a 1 bar loop for the drums and then edit it to a 2 bar loop for bass then add my sample as a start.

ede wrote:this may be a stupid ? but you all seperate your sound s right, i mean into seperate trcks right like you say hit hats on one trck, snare on another ,and so on. or do you do the kick and snare on the same trck and hi hats ,cymbals on another. i'm tring to understand this, my brain is a lil slow to much smoka da maui wowwee in da past.

Put each instrument on it's own track - it's the most organsied way to do things and will save you alot of trouble later when it comes to mixdown.

i write my drum loop on one track first, using 1 or 2 bars. then i copy the drum track to tracks 2,3 and 4. then i use the erase button to delete the snare, hi- hat, and cymbals off track 1, then on track 2 i erase the kick, hi-hat and cymbals and on track 3 the kick, snare, and cymbals and on track 4 the kick,snare,and hi-hat. that way i end up with 4 seperate tracks. the reason i use the process is that i like to get a groove going with all the instruments.

i go by ear. if i have a track that is lead by the drum(meaning important to the track) i track that first and go from there. once finish layering the track with what i think it needs. i track it into cubase for mixing and mastering to stereo track for archive

maddog wrote:i write my drum loop on one track first, using 1 or 2 bars. then i copy the drum track to tracks 2,3 and 4. then i use the erase button to delete the snare, hi- hat, and cymbals off track 1, then on track 2 i erase the kick, hi-hat and cymbals and on track 3 the kick, snare, and cymbals and on track 4 the kick,snare,and hi-hat. that way i end up with 4 seperate tracks. the reason i use the process is that i like to get a groove going with all the instruments.

hmm

yeah but how hard is it to flick the wheel and use another track?

but yes i do dig what you are saying, that you enjoy the vibe of playing it all down at once kind of thing.

if that works for you then cool!

how rockin is the MPC for the fact that theres always many ways of doing something.....

yeah i feel ya, and no it not hard to turn a knob and go to another track. i dont like stopping and starting to build a drum track. i feel comfortable do it my way. but if you wont do it the correct way then set up 4 blank tracks and and when you lay down your kick hit the next button and go to track 2 lay the snare hit the next button and so on and so while you are still in record mode.

Man, I am so anal about my drums I usually start with either a melody, a sample or the bassline.

Depends mainly on what type of track I'm working on, for instance on this one:Lead The inspiration for this lead actually came from a simple wabbly sounding noise that appears 21 secs into it. (it then goes into a teaser of some of the drum sounds I program)

On this one: BD I just sat down and made a simple BD pattern and started layering the other sounds to compensate for no additional percussion.

basically I have no canned method at all. I've tried, but I loose the feel for the track if I start the same way everytime. I do keep some simple patterns around for substitutes if im working specifically on a melody or an arrangment though.


This one of my drum templates Whenever i'm feeling lazy but have the jones to hear a fresh track I'll queue it up and start dumping sample after sample after sample in it. haha, thats why it's called temp.

If I find some nice sounds I wanna work with, drums definately come last. I would think you wanna be able to accentuate the music you are drumming behind.

But sometimes I just feel like making drums, and wanna make em hit hard, so I tend to work on that first, then chop up some sounds for stabs and make it a really rhythmic-centric kind of track. Choppy and funky sounds so the melody is almost percussive in ways.