Adjust a few setting, cut and paste sections for intro, verse and chorus and you get a reasonable road map with high quality sound. That’s all way easier now with Drum Machine Designer - just drag in your fav samples and play, or use Step Sequencer.įor speed I still sometimes use Drummer.
I’d use the ESX24 sampler preset for drum kits, or create my own custom sampler instruments. window.įor years I used to program drums in midi, either finger drumming on pads, or using a keyboard. If there is not needed an editing I drop the sample directinto the seq. I am taking the other percussion elements from Sample Libaries most and load them in to Sampler for editing. For Kick rolls I am Sampling my main kick with EXS24. However I use Mostly FXpansion Geist2 and Battery of NI.Įdit: I create my own drum kicks with Sonic Academy Kick2, this is the only one drum that I prefer to create, to stick better with the rolling base line of psy-trance music, I use sampled kicks if I want to make some drops/Impacts with Reverb and Delay. With single adjustment in Samplers like Ultrabeat or EXS24 some enveloping or pitching, add some filtering you can turn every drum Sample in good sounding drum.
But really, it is necessary to create your own drums? There are enought samplepacks on the market for cheap and there are a lot of free samples too. You can create the drums percussion almost
It is nice to be creative and create every element of the track alone.