Roland SPD-30 Octapad and BT-1 Bar Trigger Overview and Demo
The original OCTAPAD was a revolutionary percussion instrument that was adopted by musicians worldwide and set the standard for future percussion pads. With the OCTAPAD SPD-30, an exciting new chapter in Octapad history begins. Combining cutting-edge drum and percussion sounds with the latest triggering technology, a Phrase Loop function, USB MIDI, and much more, the OCTAPAD SPD-30 is a rugged instrument that’s versatile for any musical application.
- Includes new percussion sounds from around the world, plus 30 types of multi-effects
- The latest pad-sensing technology developed for V-Drums® provides even and accurate pad triggering with excellent isolation between pads
- Four dual-trigger inputs, plus hi-hat controller for adding pads to create a mini kit, or for connecting triggers from acoustic drums
- Phrase Loop function inspires your creativity; record your playing in real time and overdub up to three layers
- USB connectivity for MIDI and memory storage
- Large backlit LCD and pad indicator lights for easy operation in low-light conditions
- Rugged, road-worthy design
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Reason tutorial: How to spice up your drum patterns
Drums. They’re absolutely everywhere and vital to most music. A good drum track can make or break a track. Luckily Mattias has some useful tricks up his sleeve to help you spice up your drum patterns!
Learn about ghost notes, tips for using REX loops to add some groove and how to create complex patterns in simple ways using polymeter.
Adam Deitch and KORG WAVEDRUM Mini
Renowned drummer Adam Deitch (Break Science, Lettuce) is also a widely sought after producer whose credits include 50 Cent, Talib Kweli, Redman and many more. He’s also done session drum work for artists such as Justin Timberlake, Daniel Bedingfield and Anthony Hamilton, to name a few. Adam recently put together this fantastic music video featuring his Wavedrum Mini, showing off its great sound and portability. And he’s not just tapping on random surfaces for fun; the Wavedrum Mini comes with a clip allowing you to turn any surface into a potential drum head! Enjoy!
No dogs were harmed in the making of this video.
For more on the Wavedrum Mini head over to http://www.korg.com/wavedrummini. To learn more about Adam check out http://www.royalfamilyrecords.com/adamdeitch
Experimental: Kraft test drummie & Robert Plant
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Circuitbended toy with 4 drum sounds, changed the buttons contacts to car antenna and metal sponges -the idea is from Mateo Carabajal- playing along with a 555 osc -drawdio style- on a Plectranthus australis (aka dollar plant)
Kick Drums | Moog Little Phatty: Subtractive Synthesis
In this video Arjen Schat demonstrates how to create kick drums with the Moog Little Phatty. He start from the calibration patch (CA CALIBRATION) and create a filter kick drum and an oscillator kick drum.
MOOG and Ableton with Koushion MIDI step sequencer in action
Koushion is a MIDI Step Sequencer iPad app that allows you to easily program drum patterns, melodies and more using your existing hardware synthesizers, softsynths, samples and other electronic music gear. Works great with Ableton Live and other DAWs. Look for Koushion in the iPad app store.
Drums Against The Machine
Atomic Shadow has set up a self playing S/H patch on the EMW-200 and ran the result through the STG Sea Devil and Krisp1 ring mod. All of the raw sound is coming from the EMW-200, the Krisp1 mini LFO was controlling the filter. Part of the signal made it through the Strymon El Capistan echo pedal. The improvised drums were then performed live with the patch on the V-Drums. The film was then finished by Micky Dodds who also made the film for February-Moon Of Ice from the Twelve Full Moons album.
New stuff on the iPad: Yamaha Song Beats
Available on the iOS App Store
http://itunes.com/app/songbeats
Song Beats is a new application from Yamaha that makes it easy to play the drums along with your favorite songs!
A fabulous Drum Performance Support Tool for iPhone!
Song Beats is an iPhone app that supports your drum performance by visualizing which drums to hit and when to hit them while playing along with your favorite songs.
The app also allows you to easily create custom accompaniments for drums, putting your drumming at the center of the band.
There are more than 1000 songs available from a shop that’s built right into the app. In addition, you can also use any MIDI song that you’ve already purchased from Yamaha MusicSoft by using iTunes File Sharing. Download and register Song Beats with Yamaha, and your first song is free!
Augmented Finger Drumming with AriVibes
AriVibes is here being used to play with the sounds of a table. The sound is picked up by the iPhone’s built-in microphone, and all the effects are made by the app. The app is on the App Store, and is currently free. Get it here: http://bit.ly/getarivibes
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* Finger drumming by Derek Chai (http://soundcloud.com/del-the-bass)
* Video by Avi Ashkenazi (http://superavi.com/)
* Recorded at the Music Tech Festival (http://musictechfest.org/)
Learn more: http://www.AriVibes.com
How to make your drums punchy – Reason Sound Design
More info on Reason: http://www.propellerheads.se/products/reason/
In this Reason Sound Design video Propellerhead product specialist James Bernard give you some tried and tested engineering tips to help get your drums punching through your mix. It may seem redundant at first. After all, drums are punchy by their very nature so why do we need to MAKE them punchy if they already ARE punchy. The simple answer is that when you layer other instruments on top and everything starts fighting for the same sonic frequency space, your drums can get lost in the process.
James will show you through proper EQ, compression, and parallel processing how you can lift your drums back out of the mix and have them punching through your song exactly as you hope for.
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