Beat on a beat

1 and all,

Peace,

I make beats as all of us do but if there is one thing I can't do is reinforce an already created beat.

By that I mean, Impeach The President for example, I can't do an exact pattern over the original to make it even fatter.

I have so many records in my crates in which I have found a lovely beat that's just asking to be looped which is straightforward but beefing it up is another story.

Can anyone provide tips?

Thanking you in advance,

Regards,

MV C of CC

The way I do it is to chop up the original break/drums. You can use the zone function for this. I cut for instance every time of the bar and assign those to separate pads. So if I have a 4/4 1 bar drumloop, I end up with 4 sounds assigned to 4 different pads.

Than I just recreate the original break. The advantage is that it's in time with the bpm set in the mpc. Sometimes you gotta timestretch a bit to make it all fit right.

Than you can take different drum sounds and record another track in that sequence with other sounds that you play over the original break you had.

Another way I do it is to chop up the original break but not by time/beat but by sound. Than I make a program in my mpc with other sounds aswell so that when I trigger the kick of the original break, another kick is also triggered automatically...

Dunno if this helps/makes any sense...

Thanks 4 replying, my layman brain is trying to understand your way of doing things and slowly but surely I'm sure my brain will start understanding!!

its worth it

learn to play an istrument!

use recycle, then open copt the midi file to another track and replace the sounds with those of your own, the midi template should still retain the original groove of the chopped loop, but switch it up with your own sounds. then mix for flavour until your happy.