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Tips for time stretching your drum loops
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Tips for time stretching your drum loops

#AudiotentTip 305. Tips for time stretching your drum loops.Using a time-stretch algorithm inside of your DAW to stretch a drum loop seems like a first choice. However, a long stretch might can eas...

drumsSlicing drum loops

Slicing drum loops

#AudiotentTip 293. Slicing drum loops.There are a few advantages when slicing drum loops into individual pieces. First, you can rearrange the groove and give the original drum loop a totally differ...

drumsHow to program midi flams for your drums and drum fills

How to program midi flams for your drums and drum fills

#AudiotentTip 283. How to program midi flams for your drums and drum fills.A great way to add an organic feel to your grooves is to add a flam. Essentially a flam, is a ghost note (low velocity), f...

drumsHow to make drums and percussion sound tight using a gate

How to make drums and percussion sound tight using a gate

#AudiotentTip 243. Tight Percussion.Percussion samples might have an excess amount of reverb and delay imprinted into the stem. A good processing technique is to use a gate. This will allow you to...

clapAdd Interest To Your Drums With Reverse Claps

Add Interest To Your Drums With Reverse Claps

#AudiotentTip 227. Reverse Clap.A great way to add some extra interest to your drums is to use a reversed clap. First, bounce your current clap to another stem and reverse it.Next, place this stem ...

drumsHow to pan your toms effectively

How to pan your toms effectively

#AudiotentTip 88. Tom Panning.Split your tom #sounds into separate channels and pan them differently or use pan #automation to space them across the #stereo field.This creates a nice organic moveme...

drumsAdding Space To Synthetic Drums

Adding Space To Synthetic Drums

#AudiotentTip 34. Adding space to synthetic drums.Send your dry drum sounds to a very short ambient reverb. This will help to make them sound coherent. Works great on percussion too.What do you use...