sample or synthesise drums?
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 298 posts since 9 Feb, 2015
Some will do both but do any of you have a marked preference for designing your own percussion? I dislike the fact that samples are more static than synthesised instruments
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- KVRist
- 111 posts since 13 Feb, 2014 from vietnam
drum sample is not bad at all, you can do layering,EQ to create different sound shapes...
and synthesis is more advanced and provide you more control than sample
sample is portable and efficient,for people want to get the sound fast,just want to get into composing fast as possible,don't want to spend alots time to mess around with synthesis
but synthesis can help you get unique results
and synthesis is more advanced and provide you more control than sample
sample is portable and efficient,for people want to get the sound fast,just want to get into composing fast as possible,don't want to spend alots time to mess around with synthesis
but synthesis can help you get unique results
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- KVRAF
- 4590 posts since 7 Jun, 2012 from Warsaw
Use both. I usually syntesize the body of kick with simple sine wave and overlay it with sample to add some character.
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 298 posts since 9 Feb, 2015
Yeah makes sense guess. I prefer not to synthesise drums from scratch. I found out how quite accidentally which was fun. I was playing around with a BP filter and pitch envelope and suddenly my nice melodic pluck turned into a kick. I just end up spending way too long tweaking things to get the kick into that perfect zone. Its hard enough with dedicated synths like drumatic where only relevant parameters are displayed!DJ Warmonger wrote:Use both. I usually syntesize the body of kick with simple sine wave and overlay it with sample to add some character.
Does anyone find producing kicks designed to sit in a mix is harder than producing a kick for solo use?
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- KVRAF
- 35173 posts since 27 Jul, 2005 from the wilds of wanny
I often use a combination of a sampled drum break and synthesized kick / snare ... or sometimes sampled kick & snare. Usually my synthesized drums get sampled anyway.