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[Skrylarek]

Good samples don't need EQing. You shouldn't really be boosting, its better to have the source sample with the frequency spectrum what you need.

In terms of cutting - you should be cutting to make room for the sound within the mix.

Again, if you have to cut bad frequency spikes, it'll be better to find a cleaner sample to begin with.

K so I got the body down by layering a few 707s, but the transient is bigger than the snare I wanna build and plus I can't get the right note for the tail. Am I resampling and recompressing too much? What frequency should I boost at to get the note of a tail?

[Skrylarek]

*Of the tail

[Huts]

I don't think you've heard a thing anyone has said in the last page. You're overcomplicating this so bad it's making my head spin

[legend4ry]

I don't think you've heard a thing anyone has said in the last page. You're overcomplicating this so bad it's making my head spin

Indeed.

I gave you the best answer here :

http://www.goldbaby.co.nz/tape909.html

Just buy this, its 30 bucks.

[cyclopian]

I have all the goldbaby packs and I havent looked back since.

Also, made the leap on buying HitKitV3 as per Legend's recommendation in another thread. Pretty much the best sample pack I've ever heard.

Bottom line: Listen to Legendary's advice

[legend4ry]

[Skrylarek]

Okay. I get it now. I got good samples and I looked back on the advice you guys gave me it helped a lot and now I think I'm done asking questions. Sorry for annoying you guys though with my questions though. But I'm taking your advice and using it for that snare cheers to all you guys.

[nowaysj]

http://www.dv247.com/computer-hardware/ ... ce--104977

this 1 any good? USB bus powering is a plus, but is the hardware decent? This is all bedroom studio stuff so if it aint top of the line it dnt matter too much, 250 for that other maudio is tooo much atm

That'll do the job.

This is a bit of advice I would not take. I personally wouldn't buy anything m-audio, either controller or audio device. There are other affordable devices of better quality, from better companies. This is covered ad nauseam here, and everywhere else on the web, so I leave it to you, if you are thinking of buying m-audio.

[elyhess]

http://www.dv247.com/computer-hardware/ ... ce--104977

this 1 any good? USB bus powering is a plus, but is the hardware decent? This is all bedroom studio stuff so if it aint top of the line it dnt matter too much, 250 for that other maudio is tooo much atm

That'll do the job.

This is a bit of advice I would not take. I personally wouldn't buy anything m-audio, either controller or audio device. There are other affordable devices of better quality, from better companies. This is covered ad nauseam here, and everywhere else on the web, so I leave it to you, if you are thinking of buying m-audio.

i agree.. M-audio is pretty meh, i've bought several products that stopped working after a few months of use

[RKM]

yo

started using the drum rack so i can choose which hits and sample i wanna use to make a beat,

i always drop a bunch of stuff in first then make a loop, then try and change the sounds with effects and tone/release/etc but when i change one thing it changes the whole drum rack, i tried taking the same sample and manipulating it in arrangement view then swapping it back in but fucked up the placement and find it difficult to work out exactly what i want it to do when working on one bit alone

so yeah anyway of changing shit in the drum rack

[DrGatineau]

are you talking about ableton?

drop the effect on the specific pad that you want the effect to affect. if you drop it after the entire drum rack, it will affect all of the pads.

if you're using preset drum racks, don't use the macros. edit the tone (transpose) on the specific pad (sample) if you want to change the tone, don't do it on a macro, because then it will affect all of the pads/samples.

[RKM]

okk thanks, now i have these rolling hi hats and i wanna make this spraying strangled sound, like a flange being opened, so the sound goes out if that makes any sense

[DrGatineau]

don't think i get you tbh lol. are you just trying to put a flanger on your hihats? drop it on whichever hihat you want or drop the same flanger on each hihat if there are several hihats that you want it on. or alternatively drag those hihats to another drum rack and then you could drop the flanger after that rack and it'll affect all of them.

you can also do sends/returns within drum racks by the way. that can be useful for getting the same effect on different samples but not all of the samples.



did you get that idea from kryptic minds btw? this kinda thing?



listen to the hihats at 2:46

[RKM]

nah, as i mentioned in the jungle thread, the break in dj crystl- warpdrive, has this effect on it which gives it this pinched effect and it changes during it,
i've managed to get something i like going on though, it's a little hi hat roll and i wanna have an effect on it which changes

however i clicked duplicate loop and it's kept the loop but not all the effects on it : /

[DrGatineau]

Oh I'm not in that jungle thread but I'm listening to the tune now and I see what you're talking about. Yeah definitely sounds like flanger. All about using the LFO on ableton's flanger for that effect.

however i clicked duplicate loop and it's kept the loop but not all the effects on it : /

Duplicate loop is in clip view and duplicates the MIDI notes. If you click that little E at the bottom left to get into envelopes you can copy/paste the automation if that's what you need to the second half of the duplicated MIDI notes.

But that can be kinda tricky. Depends on if you're in arrangement or session view and what you're trying to do.

[RKM]

sound

alright this is the "end" result for the moment

Soundcloud

and using fragments' drum samples from that pack (cept for claps nd rims)

[RKM]

i was trying to get it to open up more and vary, but i think the section it's affecting is too short

[DrGatineau]

increase the LFO rate

[RKM]

thanks, i assumed lfo wasn't that important because its a hi hat

[RKM]

ah my ableton is massively wyling out with cpu overloads, got a track with about 12 audio bits and layers, is there anyway to stop this every time i edit something i have to give it 20 seconds to calm down : /

my laptop is peak