How to make Drum & Bass and Dubstep drums: Kick
Background information:
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You can easily identify a track from a rookie musician. They don’t have that punch to their drums. The kick and snare are too soft in the overall mix, and they are almost inaudible. When i started to produce, i was looking for a long time for the secret to “making fat drums”.
Today I will tell you the way to make punchy kick. We’ll look at how to layer the kick drum and then how to process it with compressor and EQ.
First of all, let’s talk about the layering. In sound layering, we take the best part from every component sound until we are completely satisfied with our overall sound.
Today we look at layering as if it’s a bunch of flowers you might give to your girlfriends.
As I mentioned earlier, we are now layering a kick drum. To do this we need several different one shot kick samples. In every kick i use here there is something i want to hear in the resultant sound. In one of them I liked the attack of the kick, in another the body of the kick drum, in a third, the bass tail. You will need to collect the parts you like to make the resulting kick.
All one shot samples I put in Drumrack – my favourite drum machine.
Let’s listen to the samples I chose.
Once the samples are selected, we only need the part of the sample that we like. So we cut everything except these parts.
– In Kick1 I liked the attack. So i leave only the attack of the kick.
– In Kick2 I removed the attack.
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In Kick3 i remove the attack and remove the bass a little bit and cleaned the tail.
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Kick4 i leave unchanged.
EMW WCS-1 Synthesizer “On the Mix”
Little track showing the WCS-1 bass sound.
WAVE COMPOSITION ANALOG SYNTHESIZER WCS-1
Description
The WCS-1 is a MIDI synthesizer module that utilizes a digital oscillator followed by all discrete analog circuits to produce unusual and heavy sounds. The exclusive wave addition resource together with a dual input powerfull VCF and a lightning fast VCA ensures its powerfull sound generation capabilities, being an ideal tool for electronic music production.
Utilization
To make use of the WCS-1 you need a MIDI controller keyboard or any other type of equipment that has a MIDI OUT port, like drum machines, MIDI Pad controllers, bass pedals or a computer with MIDI connection. The WCS-1 has a 1/4″ (P-10) mono jack on the back panel in order to be connected on a sound mixer, computer audio interface or directly to an amplifier.
Listen to Soulsavers – featuring Dave Gahan on vocals
Soulsavers, the band that supported Depeche Mode during the European leg of their “Tour of the Universe” in late 2009, have recorded a project with Depeche Mode’s Dave Gahan on vocals.
It’s hardly electronic so for those of you hoping to hear things made entirely with machines will need to skip this 😉
Free download: VNV Nation – “Crossing the Divide”
Future pop act VNV Nation treats us with a free mini album called Crossing the Divide, enjoy
Orphion MIDI Tutorial
This tutorial shows how to use Orphion with Sunrizer, Animoog and Ableton Live via MIDI-over-WIFI.
Orphion is a musical instrument with a unique sound between string instrument and percussion. Everyone can play expressive, wonderful sounds and easy or virtuosic melodies on it just by moving fingers on virtual pads.
- Different articulations from soft to plucked to hardly slapped
- Natural interaction
- Extend your ways of expression as a percussionist, guitarist, pianist or other musician
- 12 transposable pad-layouts with different tonalities from easy to complex
- 8 individual voices for 8 fingers
(4 on iPad 1)
Get Orphion here:
orphion.de
Become a Fan on Facebook:
facebook.com/Orphion
or follow on Twitter:
twitter.com/#!/OrphionApp
New ambient electronic album from the Japanese act Bears in Nippon
Here’s a new amazing ambient electronic album from Bears in Nippon
Here’s how they describe their new album:
Japanese ambient electro pop act has delivered a new and exciting mix of classic synth pop tunes and ambient electronic sounds paired with many traditional Japanese sounds and voices. Vocals performed on Fuji by Victor Graphics.
Listen and purchase here:
Or you can simply listen to the entire album on Spotify, here’s a sample track:
Enjoy 
Xplorer – an Oberheim Matrix-12 and Xpander editor – realtime demo
Apart from the stupid synthetic voice in the beginning of this video, the demo is pretty cool
In this demo, you will see that while playing an arpeggiator in FL studio, the parameters of the Xpander can be changed on the expander itself, with the keyboard controller, or directly on the touch screen. Whatever the input mode is, everything is synchronized.
Xplorer is more that an simple editor, it can acts as a real time controller too.
Enjoy the demo !
More info, technical specification, buy link: http://xplorer-editor.com
Time machine: Wurlitzer Swingin’ Rhythm
An American drum machine from 1968. Original Wurlitzer drum machine with some funked up beats. You can actually play the individual drum sounds individually, killer feature.
KORG MONOTRON EURORACK MODULE
KORG MONOTRON EURORACK MODULE WITH CV, GATE AND FILTER, DOEPFER DARK ENERGY, DOEPFER A-112 8 BIT SAMPLER, MFB STEP 64, FLAME ECHOMETER, MFB URZWERG PRO, LEXICON MX 300
Guitar Sounscapes with Ebow & csGrain
More info on the video below:
A brief collection of 3 improvised soundscapes and patches on CSGrain for iPad with my guitar and an Ebow. Don’t expect superb playing skills as the guitar is not my main instrument. Also sorry for the ground noise and artifacts, this was recorded on the fly. The audio chain is: guitar to Lexicon Omega to iPad, then processed by csGrain and the audio output goes back to the Omega and this to Sonar on the PC thru the EMU 1820m.
I’ve included the camcorder mic sound on the last patch (from minute 5:03 to 6:30 ) because I loved the sound generated by the collision of strings with the ebow while vibrating and found it fitting pretty well with the soundscape. I hope you like it.
DATAMASKIN
