Since we’ve spent the last few days majorly tweaking a sample, I want to take a minute to remind you (and me!) that the purpose of selecting a small group of samples is to get up and running quickly when creativity strikes. Hopefully, you’re now feeling secure in the knowledge that it’s possible to shape […]
KICK THAT SNARE
Alright. In the name of silly sound design experiments, today I’ll make a snare drum out of the same kick sample I started with a couple of days ago. I’m not saying that you’ll necessarily want to do this in real life – just showing how flexible every bit of sound in your sample library […]
KICK THE MIDS
Yesterday we took a look at filtering and layering to transform a kick drum sample. Today we’ll fill in the midrange a bit and look at a couple of other pieces of technique. I’ve duplicated the chain again, so now the Rack looks like this: The purpose of this chain is to add midrange punch […]
KICK THAT KICK
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SHAPE THOSE SOUNDS
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A FEW GOOD SAMPLES
Over the last couple of days, I’ve been discussing the use of a Sounds Project – a single location that contains all of your sounds be they presets or samples. The trick to having a usable Sounds Project is to understand that you don’t need a large number of sounds. instead, you need to have […]
GETTING AROUND ARRANGEMENTS
Often its the simple things that make me happy. Today, its a lovely little use for the arrow keys. Live makes navigating the Arrangement View a lot like navigating the words in a text document. Once you’ve placed the cursor in the timeline, you can move back and forth one grid line at a time […]
COLLECT FILES ON EXPORT
OK, so now that I’ve discussed the concept behind my Sounds Project, I’ll take you through some of the critical steps to get it set up right. First, create a Project folder. Right-click in one of the file browsers, and you’ll see the Create Project command to get things started. Next, create a few basic […]
THE SOUNDS PROJECT
Since I spent the last couple of days talking about creating a hand-claps Instrument Rack, I thought I’d tell you a little bit about how I go about saving this sort of instrument as a preset. You may recall that I recently spent some time talking about effect presets and how I store them in […]
SLOPPIER CLAPS
So, once I start messing around with intentionally making things sloppy or uneven I find that it’s something I can play around with forever and keep discovering things. Here are a couple of other tricks to keep things loose in the clap track. A little bit of random panning in a few of the clap […]
