Wellll I’ve finally been getting into a nice flow again but now that
I’ve made my own sounds excluding drums, I started going through all the
samples I have both from artists as well as packs Ive purchased in the
past and something about it really depresses me… Like I have superb
quality samples and it just seems like it’s too easy to just use them
yet I probably couldn’t make the amount of samples I’d need to write the
tracks I need to in the time frame I have…
Do you guys struggle with this or is this just another situation where I
just need to get over it ‘for now’ and perhaps make my own at a later
point? I mean what is making my own drum samples? (rhetorical question)
is it just layering samples that were already in packs? I just find a
lot of the drum samples I have already sound good as is…
lol what, using drum samples is common practise, not very many people make drums from scratch with a vst tbh
the key is to process and layer said samples to make them your own
I use my Nord Drum more often than layering. The NI drum vsts are quite nice as well. Cooking your own in a proper percussion synth is much easier than dealing with all the processing your have to do when you layer. At least for me.
I think a lot of people do cook their own, though layer does seem the go to method in Dubstep.
well when i said vst i meant more like synth vsts not usually used for drums
i thought thats what the OP meant tbh, didnt even think of drum vsts lol >.<
I’ve started looking for good clean hits from my favorite drummers… Can take awhile (going thru them doing clinics and stuff, finding that ONE song with a break) so far I feel it’s been fairly worth it. Can’t really beat the high hat hits. They have so much feel so I just have like 6-7 different hits that are all slightly different and can make a sweet groove from it
With this question are you referring to using pre-made drum loops from sample packs or just individual one shots?
When I first got into production a few people I knew always seemed to be using pre made loops for their drums/percs sometimes other elements of their tracks used pre made loops too… I suppose it can probably allow you to have something more full sounding much more quickly when your just starting out but when I used this method I never felt like what I was making was truly mine. I suppose you can chop them up, add effects and what not but I still feel it doesn’t compare to the satisfaction of making your own drum loops completely out of one shots/individual drum hits. However I suppose I’m still using individual hits that are from somewhere else possibly/probably ripped from another song lol.
I guess the same sort of thing goes for using a drum loop from a song that already exists, you could use it and not change anything or cut it up and change it in a way that makes it sound totally new. No matter what your doing, it’s still gonna be fun and your still making music/creating something wether its original or not which is better than endlessly scrolling down Facebook or watching TV in my opinion.
I use a combo of both sample pack one shots/synthesis and layerd stuff. It really depends if i got a sample pack that has the sound i want il use that, if not il go about making my own via layering and or synthesis.
Not sure what type of dubstep/electronic music in general you’re into, but I enjoy the challenge of using only acoustic drum samples and layering them with synthesised drums (not really using any drum synth, just ES2/FM8), to make EDM-ish drums. It’s really rewarding when you get anything even half decent out of it + nobody is ever gonna figure out what samples you used.
