I like programming beats on my Octatrack, but contrary to a lot of people around here I’m not very good at it. Do anyone have tips/techniques or suggested reading, links etc they feel like sharing? Not necessarily Octratrack related, just general principles for how to make a nice groove going. Sometimes I try to do slow trip-hop-ish patterns, sometimes I want something more aggressive and energetic, but neither tend to turn out quite right.
I know that delaying the snare on 5 and 13 makes for a more laidback feel and I also usually move some of the hats a bit around for a human touch, but that is about it.
These were excellent. I had tons of fun making a DnB loop yesterday. Thanks!
In the “raw DnB” tutorial I was told to compress the ride with a sidechain from kick/snare, which I faked with an LFO. It made the ride sit much nicer in the mix. Definitively something I’ll try to do on other beats as well.
I lived together with a friend for a while who was a incredebly good in making Drum-sequences. I asked him how he did that. He told me he was a drummer and that he did thesame in his Daw.
He told me that drummers rarely hit to things at the same time .
A simple, clear structure plus some funky elements. In my opinion, those subtle elements make the difference (toms, percs, maybe just a saturated hp-filtered delay on the kick).
GOOD POINT ! Drums are my weakest point . The problem is that I tend to make to much variations and loose the groove that way. I find it difficult to make something simple and clear but interesting. It happens to me alot that I make somthing that I think sounds good - only to discover the day after that the drums suck. I don’t know why but I have this problem far less with melody or chords. Maybe I wanna do to much ??? …