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offline slint on 2002-12-10 15:16 [#00476815]
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what program should i use to make some good drill'n'bass
beats like square pusher-kid 606?i got acid+soundforge but i
don't think i can use them for this.
thank you


 

offline titsworth from Washington, DC (United States) on 2002-12-10 15:32 [#00476835]
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i think kid606 is mostly hardware


 

offline aron from saskatoon (Canada) on 2002-12-10 15:35 [#00476839]
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WHAT!?!!! acid is the best program ever for doing drill!!
just turn up the bpm and cut up a break all mad style



 

offline Mickey Mouse from The Moon on 2002-12-10 15:36 [#00476842]
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get fruityloops dood, crank up the bpm

though on some well placed dsp...


 

offline slint on 2002-12-10 15:36 [#00476843]
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cut up the break?


 

offline Braindancecandy from United States on 2002-12-10 15:37 [#00476847]
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Sometimes when I crank up the bpm on fruity it crashes {O_o}
so crank it up gently lol.


 

offline slint on 2002-12-10 15:37 [#00476848]
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do i have to sample some beats or no?how can i sample from
cd?


 

offline slint on 2002-12-10 15:38 [#00476851]
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thank you guys sorry but i'm new to this world----


 

offline slint on 2002-12-10 15:40 [#00476856]
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kid 606 hardware?


 

offline uviol from United States on 2002-12-10 15:48 [#00476874]
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kid 606 uses a mac first of all ...


 

offline aron from saskatoon (Canada) on 2002-12-10 15:49 [#00476876]
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uhh mate
maybe you should like learn some more stuff about this kind
of thing before you start to make drill stuff
maybe you should try somethig simpler before you try to be
the next squarepusher


 

offline slint on 2002-12-10 15:50 [#00476878]
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and so?
tha mac are better?
what if i use a pc?


 

offline slint on 2002-12-10 15:55 [#00476884]
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what should i try?what is simpler?eiffel 65?


 

offline uviol from United States on 2002-12-10 15:58 [#00476891]
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didn't mean to imply using a PC is bad, I have a PC myself
.. just saying that if you'regoing for all-kid606 style then
he uses a mac, simply informative, lol. sorry about that.
you can work wonders on the PC as well.


 

offline slint on 2002-12-10 16:03 [#00476898]
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ok ok thank you
a lot of people tells me that mac is better....it's much
more reliable and powerful an that almost every musicians
use it......is it true?


 

offline titsworth from Washington, DC (United States) on 2002-12-10 16:05 [#00476899]
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the more chaotic 606 stuff is mostly done with hardware
(gear), not software. macs do tend to be better for making
music but the most important part of the process is the
creative mind!!! :D ;) :p


 

offline hepburnenthorpe from sydney (Australia) on 2002-12-10 16:08 [#00476904]
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man, i really dont think any particular software is gonna do
it for you. you just need to find a program that allows you
to do it, then practice.

i can quickly program fast drill style beats in a tracker
(madtracker), but it took me about 2 years to learn to
trak.

i switched to fruityloops (fruityloops) about 18mnths
ago, and it pretty much set me back a while. but im starting
to get the hang of it now.

thing is, whatever program you use, you gotta be patient. if
you cant get drill beats out in a few weeks....keep trying.
it might take weeks,months or years to get your head around
a program. the more you swap and change the longer its gonna
take.

[ +20rp3 ]

www.hepburnenthorpe.zzn.com


 

offline slint on 2002-12-10 16:12 [#00476906]
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thank you.....yeah it's not so easy as it seems....it's an
instruments....it's like guitar....you have to
practice.....it has lot of possibilities but it's also not
very implulsive like my stratocaster......


 

offline Monoid from one source all things depend on 2002-12-10 16:30 [#00476929]
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Get Reason or Reason 2, hit "Randomize drum pattern" ! And
there you go !


 

offline hepburnenthorpe from sydney (Australia) on 2002-12-10 16:38 [#00476940]
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he wants to program them im sure.

[ +20rp3 ]

www.hepburnenthorpe.zzn.com



 

offline wayout from the street of crocodiles on 2002-12-10 18:51 [#00477043]
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kid 606 made 'down with the scene' with reaktor
i guess he uses it in most of his live sets as well


 

offline Spookyluke from United States on 2002-12-10 20:32 [#00477128]
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Good interview with Kid 606 in a fairly-recent AP.


 

offline MrTenzin from The Concrete Jungle (United States) on 2002-12-10 21:13 [#00477176]
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u can be like me and sample someone drilling tires in at 76
gas ;D


 

offline flea from depths of your mind (New Zealand) on 2002-12-10 21:31 [#00477189]
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You can do everything in Fruity Loops...and or Acid

one of the most basic tricks would be to Create the
beats..with a nice hiphop swing to um at 100bpm and once you
have created several slightly variant versions of
them..(change the placement of hits..make sure you have
plenty of shuffling brassy hits (hihats, cymbals etc))..and
once you are satisfied that you can groove to them at
100bpm..crank them upto 200...


 

offline flea from depths of your mind (New Zealand) on 2002-12-10 21:36 [#00477194]
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plus you have soundforge..try the time stretching effects on
it to create snare rushes etc..(not just snarerushes also
try bass rushes hithat rushess etc as well)..also export a
few of the loops you have created and then process them with
effects like Flangers, Delay etc..in Sound Forge..just for a
nice sense of variation...

I think the most thrilling element of Drill'n'Bass is
unpreditcability and certain randomness in the beats..so
vary the placement of beats as often as possible..as soom as
a rhythm becomes predictable..you are in Drum 'n 'Bass
territory...


 

offline map from mülligen (Switzerland) on 2002-12-11 02:04 [#00477309]
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i couldn't describe it better.


 

offline Gubb on 2002-12-11 02:36 [#00477329]
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"i can quickly program fast drill style beats in a tracker
(madtracker), but it took me about 2 years to learn to
trak. "

what? it shouldnt take more then a weekend to get a hang of
a tracker.. it took me a weekend to learn buzz when it came
out and it had like almost no documentation back then. you
are slow..



 

offline str_ph from Cambridge (United Kingdom) on 2002-12-11 04:14 [#00477357]
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I saw kid 606 dj'ing with two laptops and and a mixer. Dunno
how he synchonized the shit but I'm quite sure he was
running somme VST plug-ins he was tweaking real-time while
looking very concentrated and absorbed by his work.
My 2 euro-cents.


 

offline hepburnenthorpe from sydney (Australia) on 2002-12-11 09:28 [#00477573]
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yeah, maybe. but how good are your tracking skills?



 

offline Portland from San Diego (United States) on 2002-12-11 09:50 [#00477586]
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write your beats at 180+. sample them. the write the rest of
the song in half tempo using the sampled beats. you then
have nice contrast between your break neck beats and more
realistically sped melodies and harmonies.


 

offline slint on 2002-12-11 13:57 [#00477817]
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there's one thing i don't understand:if i make some good
beats i have to program the pc ora do i have to improvvise
them and rec them?
let me explain:do i have to program the beats in a way like
after i push the play button i just have to listen or i have
to improvvise the beats and make the song?i hope you
understand.....


 

offline Binaural Tea from Christmas City (Christmas Island) on 2002-12-11 14:13 [#00477825]
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errr. trackers are the best for drill.



 

offline Binaural Tea from Christmas City (Christmas Island) on 2002-12-11 14:14 [#00477827]
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thats an uneraseable fact


 

offline slint on 2002-12-11 14:16 [#00477829]
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what the hell is a tracker?acid?


 

offline Portland from San Diego (United States) on 2002-12-11 14:25 [#00477832]
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use a step sequencer. all the trackers and fruity loops and
acid are step sequencers. you dont have to play those beats
in real time. just plug the notes in where you want them.


 

offline promo from United Kingdom on 2002-12-11 14:32 [#00477836]
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I struggle to make really complicated beats like
drill'n'bass. I find it impossible. I can make reasonable
beats but doing anything like drill'n'bass I just haven't
cracked it and plus to do anything like Squarepusher would
take eons of time and patience. I've tried for years to do
things like that but just don't know how its done. I think
it helps to have musical knowledge, I have none and I think
its a serious disadvantage. I'd basically need to watch
someone doing some beats like that for say a day or so and
see what tricks and programs they use, then I meant have a
chance. There ought to be a course in drill'n'bass. Lol.


 

offline slint on 2002-12-11 14:37 [#00477844]
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ehhehe sure
but the thing i don't understand is when somebody like kid
606 plays live he improvises the songs?
he has the sounds loaded in the opc and improvises?


 

offline bryce_berny from chronno (Canada) on 2002-12-11 15:07 [#00477877]
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most software that people use on a mac is also available for
pc....



 

offline Gubb on 2002-12-12 06:07 [#00478482]
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"yeah, maybe. but how good are your tracking skills?"

my tracking skillz are mad! :)


 

offline hepburnenthorpe from sydney (Australia) on 2002-12-12 06:12 [#00478486]
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in your opinion of course


 

offline euphonicfilter from illadelphia (United States) on 2002-12-12 07:27 [#00478571]
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buy whatever makes you comfortable - if people could buy
boxes or soft that made them sound like pusher, 606, or
apfix twine they would sell like hot cakes

get a trash can, rubber mallet, 4 track and a mic - make
your OWN drill

get it - your OWN

copycats don't like water


 

offline Gubb on 2002-12-12 07:42 [#00478592]
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yes.

show me some of your 2 years worth of tracking skillz then
please.. got some stuff on the net?


 

offline euphonicfilter from illadelphia (United States) on 2002-12-12 07:44 [#00478596]
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who me? - nothing on the net yet (that was a lame sentence)
- ive retired to focus on djing at the moment (upon the
completion of my third album) - but im so busy w/ college i
cant do anything

i inted on making what is in essence my "final track" (until
i graduate) - expecting it to be 30+ mins in length w/
everything from slow hip hop to fast dnb w/ lots of
unbearable noise a la mego people

hot sluts w/ tits


 

offline Gubb on 2002-12-12 07:46 [#00478598]
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found some links through your homepage. quite nice. not my
style though..

the point is it doesent take a person two years just to
learn tracking.


 

offline Gubb on 2002-12-12 07:47 [#00478601]
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actually the message was aimed at hepburnenthorpe. but id
love to hear your 30 min super track in the future :)


 

offline euphonicfilter from illadelphia (United States) on 2002-12-12 08:02 [#00478610]
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ill keep that in mind :)

i answer questions that dont pertain to me when its early in
the morning

YAY


 

offline hepburnenthorpe from sydney (Australia) on 2002-12-12 09:27 [#00478697]
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obviously some of us arent as skilled as you.

big ups to you!!!!!
big ups to you!!!!!
big ups to you!!!!!


 

offline flea from depths of your mind (New Zealand) on 2002-12-12 09:39 [#00478721]
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why is a tracker better than a sequencer for drill?..why is
a tracker better than a sequencer for anything?...surely not
ease of use..it's vertical structure..is just unnatural for
music...


 

offline slint on 2002-12-18 05:52 [#00484515]
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maybe i found a way to make some good beats....it's my
way.....maybe i'm the only person that uses soundforge to
make drill'n'bass.......i just take a pattern and destroy it
then i copy the beats in the way i like......and with
sounforge i can apply effects to the 2 channels
separately....well i'm happy because maybe i found a
way.......
concrete drill'n'bass with guitar?


 

offline map from mülligen (Switzerland) on 2002-12-18 05:56 [#00484516]
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ever tried pHATmatik pro ?


 


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