Snares - Real techniques

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By donjuan Sun Oct 06, 2002 8:05 pm
hi,
I just started to use the mpc and i would like to have the techniques to combine two to three snares to make it one.
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By Kaymir Mon Oct 07, 2002 12:57 pm
Yes I have my MPC now for some 3 months en the simul feat is really great!!

Little toying around with attack/decay and it will work for you :;):


good luck[/color]

By Tariq3 Tue Oct 08, 2002 6:08 pm
Yep! What MPC Tutor said. Another technique I employ is that I will actually layering my snare hits. Using the same technique as MPC-T said with stacking snares. I'll then create my basic drum pattern. Once the snare are laid in the sequence. I'll then put the snare on 16 pads and add snare hits at different pitches and/or velocities.

You can play around with this in a variety of ways. You can put one of the non-stacked snares on 16 pads and do the same thing. You can also try doing this with no quantization. You can make some very nice drum patterns like this.[/color]
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By HoaxOne Thu Oct 10, 2002 9:39 pm
With the MPC, there's mad options. I just want to add another way to layer. You can go and assign three different snares to three different pads. Then record your sequence with two or three of the snares hitting at the same time on their own individual tracks. From there mess with the swing settings on each of those tracks so that each snare lands in a different spot than the other. I like to use the same rim shot & record them to hit at the same time while on their own invidual track. From there I'll adjust the timing on the second rim shot track (ie: later by 1 or 2) so that it will land right after the attack of the first rim shot. This creates a thicker rim shot. Peace...[/color]
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By Smoove03 Wed Mar 31, 2004 8:20 pm
Tariq3 wrote:Yep! What MPC Tutor said. Another technique I employ is that I will actually layering my snare hits. Using the same technique as MPC-T said with stacking snares. I'll then create my basic drum pattern. Once the snare are laid in the sequence. I'll then put the snare on 16 pads and add snare hits at different pitches and/or velocities.

You can play around with this in a variety of ways. You can put one of the non-stacked snares on 16 pads and do the same thing. You can also try doing this with no quantization. You can make some very nice drum patterns like this.[/color]



where did you read this at? i would like to read this..thanks
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