drum choppers

just wondering
when you chop your drums, say a kick, hat, snare pattern does everyone use the hi hat that they've chopped or look elsewhere for a more clear open hat...

you can usually, depending on the sample, get a hat sound from the break.

(i presume you are altering the volume on the cut up drums??) - if you are, with the addition of some swing, you can help make the new beat sound more natural. - use two kiks and two snares and two hats to make the whole thing sound less formulaic.

- rather than just one kick and one snare and one hat repeated ova and ova again so solid crew style.

listen to "people under the stairs" new LP - im not a fan but you cant fault his drum programming - very tight and very HOT.

let me know how you get on...
m*

mullethed wrote:
listen to "people under the stairs" new LP - im not a fan but you cant fault his drum programming - very tight and very HOT.

Most of the drums are breaks, sometimes chopped, sometimes not. I wouldn't call that drum programming per se.

who would u say uses tight drum progammin then, not loops ?

i do! ok so im not professional or famous but there are plenty of peeps who do, some especially sick mpc action is done by Prefuse 73- lots of reprogrammed beats there- and stuff like 'desks, pencils, bottles' is just crazy stuff-

id say in these copyright protected days more and more people are programming rather than using pre-made loops...

greg





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who would u say uses tight drum progammin then, not loops ?

mark b - jehst - creators - all good drum programming. smartarse.

m

dubmunkey wrote:id say in these copyright protected days more and more people are programming rather than using pre-made loops...

Actually, I think that virtually no one has ever been sued for sampling drums. Unused breaks are simply getting hard to find these days.

i can't think of any cases in particular but often permission needs to be granted before the song is released.....

Greg

stinktank wrote:Actually, I think that virtually no one has ever been sued for sampling drums. Unused breaks are simply getting hard to find these days.

Just think how many records there are out there with breaks. They arn't getting hard to come by, you've just got to dig.

Yeah you might be surprised at the ill sh!t you find digging.