Conquering dub
Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2017 10:43 am
Good work.
Okay everyone, time to dub it up!!
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Re: Conquering dub
Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2017 2:12 am
This sounds really good. And it's made well too.
Good work.
Okay everyone, time to dub it up!!
Good work.
Okay everyone, time to dub it up!!
Re: Conquering dub
Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2017 8:32 am
Question about the drums, do you program them in the BBEditor or the SongEditor? In the Piano-Roll or in the step sequencer? Have you a method ?
Re: Conquering dub
Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2017 11:00 am
Yop,
I first tried with the BB editor, but it was a bit binary (not possible to be just before or just after the beat, or at least, I did not see how to do that), so I switched to the piano style window ("piano virtuel" in French, most likely what you call the piano roll?) that gives more shades in the drums play.
I have a drum pattern I use while writing the guitar chords and the bass line, a basic "one drop" pattern (snare rim and kick on third, closed hihat on each on-beat and off-beat).
When I am done with the bass, I work on the hihat pattern first, then on the kick (filling the spaces in the bass line, or not, it depens), then on the snare, then I add fills. Finally I remove some hihat or snare hits that a human drummer could not play during the fills (most humans only have 2 arms, AFAIK)
I often use the zoom at 800% and the 1/192 to introduce small shifts. Indeed, by analysing some drum parts of my favorite drummer (Carlton Barret and Leroy "Horsemouth" Wallace) with Audacity,, I realized that they did not play exactly on the beat, mainly in the fills (the famous "machine gun" effect of the drum boxes), I "saw" (instead of hearing them) the different velocities of the hits inside a fill. All those shades give life to a fill, and this is my inspiration when I create the drum part of a track.
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I first tried with the BB editor, but it was a bit binary (not possible to be just before or just after the beat, or at least, I did not see how to do that), so I switched to the piano style window ("piano virtuel" in French, most likely what you call the piano roll?) that gives more shades in the drums play.
I have a drum pattern I use while writing the guitar chords and the bass line, a basic "one drop" pattern (snare rim and kick on third, closed hihat on each on-beat and off-beat).
When I am done with the bass, I work on the hihat pattern first, then on the kick (filling the spaces in the bass line, or not, it depens), then on the snare, then I add fills. Finally I remove some hihat or snare hits that a human drummer could not play during the fills (most humans only have 2 arms, AFAIK)
I often use the zoom at 800% and the 1/192 to introduce small shifts. Indeed, by analysing some drum parts of my favorite drummer (Carlton Barret and Leroy "Horsemouth" Wallace) with Audacity,, I realized that they did not play exactly on the beat, mainly in the fills (the famous "machine gun" effect of the drum boxes), I "saw" (instead of hearing them) the different velocities of the hits inside a fill. All those shades give life to a fill, and this is my inspiration when I create the drum part of a track.
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Re: Conquering dub
Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2017 8:19 pm
Thank you for your answer.
Yes, "Piano-Roll" = "piano virtuel".
For my part, it's the bazaar, I have not yet found a satisfactory solution.
So I use :
1) the step squencer in the BBEditor for its ease of use which makes it possible to test things quickly,
2) and the piano-roll in both the BBEditor and the SongEditor when I have to get out of the grid, when I want to get finer melodic and rhythmic variations, or when a note exceeds the end of the last measure of the pattern.
With the BBEditor, I mix the three "Philosophies of pattern design" (https://lmms.io/wiki/index.php?title=Co ... _Sequences) depending on the advantages and disadvantages of each.
But when a project grows, the ergonomic limitations of LMMS are very constraining, in terms of legibility, and thus of ease of writing of a project (project easy to start, more difficult to finalize, at least, for me).
Yes, "Piano-Roll" = "piano virtuel".
For my part, it's the bazaar, I have not yet found a satisfactory solution.
So I use :
1) the step squencer in the BBEditor for its ease of use which makes it possible to test things quickly,
2) and the piano-roll in both the BBEditor and the SongEditor when I have to get out of the grid, when I want to get finer melodic and rhythmic variations, or when a note exceeds the end of the last measure of the pattern.
With the BBEditor, I mix the three "Philosophies of pattern design" (https://lmms.io/wiki/index.php?title=Co ... _Sequences) depending on the advantages and disadvantages of each.
But when a project grows, the ergonomic limitations of LMMS are very constraining, in terms of legibility, and thus of ease of writing of a project (project easy to start, more difficult to finalize, at least, for me).