Reaper is a blast imo

Free too because the trial never expires

Mad fun. Music feel more natural working this way tbh

Doing chords are a pain deaux

I've been doing the oldschool jungle thing where you just make a pad with a maj7 chord, record out, and put it in a sampler to play a riff

Honestly feels like a better vibe - the way the sample moves faster and slower based upon the note is such a fun texture

Yep. Very old school sound but sounds a lot better than playing the chord with a vst sometimes

All my new music is strictly renoise and I'll be putting out a snippet track for my next album soon

OTT too powerful.

Believe me bro I use OTT like crazy, I'm a Cubase user for life but that OTT is too good and it's free so there's no reason everyone shouldn't have it

This nigga look like a f***ing alien beat is nice though

I like to use it sparingly, I never really push it much past 20% depth during songwriting

I've noticed it makes the high end on hihats painful, but it definitely has its uses

Never used it on drums before, I always use it on Zebra, I can make really dope Moog sounding bass arps and then throw OTT on it to make it sound modern and edgier

It sounds terrible on drums, don't do it

I use Devil-Loc on my drum bus

on my drum bus I normally just drop a limiter on it, maybe a bit of subtle (like 2-4%) camelphat distortion too

Kick -> kicks Bus -> output to the drum bus
Kicks bus -> send to parallel compression/saturation (If necessary
Kicks bus -> send to parallel transient shaping (if necessary)

Snare -> snares bus -> output to drum bus
Snare bus > send to parallel compression/saturation (if necessary)
snare bus -> send to parallel transient shaping (if necessary)

Parallel transient shaping and saturation/compression is entirely dependent on the samples you're working with and how hard you're smashing everything into the limiter on the drum bus. The limiter will inherently destroy your transients, but sending them in parallel can keep them intact. You can also duplicate the samples and mix the dry/wet of the non limited and limited samples

breaks and hihats -> percs bus (unless I want a different sidechain on my breaks)
percs bus (sidechaining to kicks and snares, I sometimes just use a "dummy" trigger)-> drum bus

• drum bus just get smacked to s*** with a limiter depending upon my mood. Sometimes I use the compressor in trash 2. Sometimes I limit it

• send the entire drum bus -20.5 or so to a reverb bus, choose a chromaverb room preset. Use a calculator to decide how long of a reverb
  follow up the chromaverb room preset with an eq to shape it

optional: Pitch shift the reverb send, automate that. Automate the filter eq in the reverb send. Sidechain reverb send to the kicks and snares bus if necessary.
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This can make regular drum patterns sound more full, especially with more spread out kicks and snares

mix the dry/wet levels of parallel transient shaping and saturation on their individual parallel channels. Start at the bottom and drag up until you hear it, then stop.

@Sean_Combs_Filter imma try some of these out I’m actually a film composer so the drums I use are all organic orchestral percussion samples, but I like them to sound massive and really cut through my mixes

This is a good example

Yeah for that you'll want to automate the stuff inside of the reverb send. I have zero idea how to mix orchestral stuff though. I make dnb so limiters and zero dynamics are my jam

Half assed example of what I was talking about right here - I made this in ten minutes. The drums need more top end, I didn't attempt to actually eq the breaks more than shelving them off real quick they sound awful being pushed into the limiter. Sidechain could be dialed in too

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listen to this while looking at the automation. "Rev 1" is the reverb send from my drum bus. At bar 9, you'll notice that there is tension being built by the automation. A new frequency inside of the EQ (that is being eventually gained by 13db, but this turns on and increases while being automated after bar 9) starts going up towards 5k, as the pitch shift mix is automated to 100%. This creates tension, fills out the mix, and feels natural and not out of place. You can be really creative with this, the sky is the limit.

I missed one piece of sauce on my drum bus: airwindows.com/drumslam-vst GOAT plugin. Sounds great and you just push a knob until it sounds to your liking, then mix dry/wet.

Biggest thing i've learned recently is to automate all of the elements you have to your liking and create transitions before adding new sounds, it's easy for risers to sound out of place imo.

Will definitely try that on some orchestral stuff, it's very common to automate mic positions and stuff like that. Do you still have an account on KTT1? I cam pm you my Terminator theme remake so you can get an idea from my own stuff

nah i'm not on ktt1

yeezyfan177@​gmail.com is my throwaway - send it there

sounds good man!

You can also parallel compress the entire drum bus

Do whatever you want

youtube.com/watch?v=w1PSX7pObNY&feature=emb_title

check out my bands cover of good guy by frank

that EARFQUAKE mash up though

exactly

How do y’all EQ yalls 808s? I usually cut the highs on mine and add some compression and a lil distortion drone time to time. Sometimes they hit hard sometimes they don’t, trying to find consistency

Attempt @ dance music

new s***

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