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synaesthesia · Post by **synaesthesia** » Sun Oct 14, 2012 3:05 pm

Hello hello.

Yesterday was my birthday, so I thought I'd celebrate by giving away a collection of 32 drum/percussion Birthday Beats taken from the last six months' of projects I've been working on.

There are acoustic breaks, nu skool breaks, 4 on the floor dance grooves, ethnic/cinematic rhythms and some other eclectic stuff too.

So, visit my Free Stuff page and download to your heart's content.

Free Stuff at www.theunfinished.co.uk

Cheers KVRers.

http://soundcloud.com/the-unfinished/se ... ay-beats-1

tehlord · Post by **tehlord** » Mon Oct 15, 2012 9:48 am

Awesome stuff Matt. Thanks

core · Post by **core** » Mon Oct 15, 2012 9:58 am

Great share, Matt

synaesthesia · Post by **synaesthesia** » Mon Oct 15, 2012 10:12 am

Cheers guys, you're welcome.

SampleScience · Post by **SampleScience** » Tue Oct 16, 2012 2:52 am

Great beats!!

Could you tell us a bit about the production techniques that came when creating those beats?

Meffy · Post by **Meffy** » Tue Oct 16, 2012 2:58 am

A belated Merry Youmas. *fires the Party Cannon*

synaesthesia · Post by **synaesthesia** » Tue Oct 16, 2012 8:16 am

SampleScience wrote:Great beats!!

Could you tell us a bit about the production techniques that came when creating those beats?

Bloody hell! What? All of them? Erm... various different techniques depending on the project in question.

So it can depend on whether the track/cue started with the beat or I worked the beat around the melodies etc.

I don't have any hugely expensive high end mixing gear, a lot of the effects I use on my drums are through free and low budget plug-ins. A lot of it is about combining sounds - particularly the kicks and snares, usually have two or three mixed together. But, equally, much of it comes from the programming - careful placing of the original samples to create a groove and then using plug-ins to gel everything together.

I may well be doing some YouTube tutorials on putting together drumloops soon*, that may be of more use than my desperate scribblings here! If I think it's of interest to people out there.

And thanks for the party cannon, Meffy! You missed.

*Soon can mean any time between now and the apocalypse...

JunkMaster · Post by **JunkMaster** » Wed Oct 17, 2012 1:12 pm

The apocalypse seems to be sooner than you think!

I would definitely be interested in some Youtube tutorials.

Thanks for the loops and happy belated to you.

SampleScience · Post by **SampleScience** » Wed Oct 17, 2012 5:57 pm

synaesthesia wrote:
SampleScience wrote:Great beats!!

Could you tell us a bit about the production techniques that came when creating those beats?
Bloody hell! What? All of them? Erm... various different techniques depending on the project in question.

So it can depend on whether the track/cue started with the beat or I worked the beat around the melodies etc.

I don't have any hugely expensive high end mixing gear, a lot of the effects I use on my drums are through free and low budget plug-ins. A lot of it is about combining sounds - particularly the kicks and snares, usually have two or three mixed together. But, equally, much of it comes from the programming - careful placing of the original samples to create a groove and then using plug-ins to gel everything together.

I may well be doing some YouTube tutorials on putting together drumloops soon*, that may be of more use than my desperate scribblings here! If I think it's of interest to people out there
*Soon can mean any time between now and the apocalypse...

Somehow I thought it was played live with an acoustic drum kit! Also, from the demo it seems that the loops are shorter than previous packs, I like it better this way so I can program my own variation with SliceX and the sequencer.

If you could put up some tutorial/studio session on YouTube it would be very cool!

Cheers!

synaesthesia · Post by **synaesthesia** » Thu Oct 18, 2012 10:03 am

Right, I'll try and schedule some time in for some drum programming tutorials. I also need to do some synth sound design ones.

Might have to cut out sleep for a while...

synaesthesia · Post by **synaesthesia** » Mon Oct 22, 2012 10:08 am

Post-weekend bump for those who may have missed grabbing these before.

Free Birthday Beats