KVR Audio

TheCatBurglar · Post by **TheCatBurglar** » Tue Mar 21, 2017 9:03 am

Currently at work and can't listen - but it depends entirely on the type of drum and bass you are trying to make. More modern stuff is usually mostly programmed in with punchy sounding hit's. A lot of people are currently going for a very tonal snare pitched up - but I think it's becoming vastly overused. The great thing about drum and bass is that there are so many different ways to do it. I prefer to low cut some kind of break at 174 bpm, chop it up. then begin layering my kick's and snares, add some shuffles and away you go.

Experiment and you'll find your own style

thecontrolcentre · Post by **thecontrolcentre** » Tue Mar 21, 2017 2:37 pm

chk071 wrote:

Apparently not ...

Hooj · Post by **Hooj** » Wed Mar 22, 2017 4:24 am

SoundGimmick wrote:The snare sound is what I'm mostly going for. It's pitched up and possibly has a hat going with it. But what I'm actually looking for is how to do it from scratch and get the punchyness without using preprocessed drum samples, by which I mean what to do with a basic acoustic drum sample / synthesizer to get the desired sound, if possible.

you can do it that way if you want, it just takes a lot more processing. I remember watching a dnb producer on youtube a few yrs back creating his entire drum loop using 'acoustic' drums from either Toontrack, Addictive Drums or one of those, can't remember exactly. If I can remember who it featured, I'll look it up and post it! I remember him doing a lot of multiband distortion/transient shaping & parallel compression.

masterqueef · Post by **masterqueef** » Thu Mar 23, 2017 4:51 am

Try layering a pitched up snare with some white noise, bounce it out and mix it back into your clean snare, go easy though

dangayle · Post by **dangayle** » Sat Mar 25, 2017 4:33 pm

Bizzy B has some videos on YouTube on how to chop up breaks in Renoise like how they used to do it in the old trackers. He's an old school jungle/dnb producer.

zethus909 · Post by **zethus909** » Sat Mar 25, 2017 9:57 pm

if u use able ton , get a drum rack then put a bunch of drum samples on it then run it through an arp

Hooj · Post by **Hooj** » Mon Mar 27, 2017 8:20 pm

Okay, I found it... It's actually pretty good!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUYMJCVkirs

puzzlevortex · Post by **puzzlevortex** » Mon Mar 27, 2017 11:45 pm

thecontrolcentre wrote:Take the Amen Break and play it back at 140bpm + You might want to pitch it up, rather than timestretching.

The drum break from The Winstons - Amen Brother

This. You can download the amen break from freesound.org And also try working with some samplepacks. I like layering a bunch of loops together. You can get some really complex drum sounds this way.

TheCatBurglar · Post by **TheCatBurglar** » Wed Mar 29, 2017 8:32 am

Hooj wrote:Okay, I found it... It's actually pretty good!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUYMJCVkirs

I'd also recommend the Joe Ford masterclass from Digital Labs (Or any of their dnb lectures).

http://www.digitallabz.co.uk/video-tutorials

Unaspected · Post by **Unaspected** » Thu Mar 30, 2017 10:28 pm

Spades of compression.

SoundGimmick · Post by **SoundGimmick** » Thu Apr 13, 2017 10:55 pm

Hooj wrote:Okay, I found it... It's actually pretty good!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUYMJCVkirs

This is the one I happened to come across, but thanks anyways!

SoundGimmick · Post by **SoundGimmick** » Thu Apr 13, 2017 10:56 pm

Unaspected wrote:Spades of compression.

What kind of compression though? Any specific technique on your mind?

Feline Phase · Post by **Feline Phase** » Mon Sep 04, 2017 3:29 am

I personally make the loop myself from elements I pick up or create from scratch and then I either use a slicer or not.

Totolitoto · Post by **Totolitoto** » Mon Sep 04, 2017 5:50 am

Your video example sounds like a TR909 snare with an EQ boost (200 or 250 hz, really narrow Q) then layer a ride underneath (not too loud)

Cheers,
David

NAD · Post by **NAD** » Mon Sep 04, 2017 7:13 am

The Essential Dubstep sample packs are great for modern DnB style kicks and snares.

DnB sound (design?)