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to demo musicians: what's your favorite method of generating beats/rhythms for a demo soundtrack?

i am using logic pro 8 and ableton live these days. i tend to sequence percussion directly with recorded midi parts that trigger a drum machine (either software like ultrabeat, or hardware). i know that others like to come up with loops, and split them up into chunks that can be rearranged.

also, where do you get your percussion sounds? i recently started a house-style track and i'm getting a bit frustrated at finding a good snare drum sound that will fit. i'm starting to think that a dance music percussion sample cd would be worthwhile.

vengeance clubsounds vol 1 and 2 is all you need :)

what Gargaj said :)

I use NI Battery for sample based stuff, but you can synthesize/sequence some nice sounds in NI Massive as well.

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thanks gargaj, i will go looking for it!

(vengeance is too much mainstream club crap)

Nice nfos. For synthetic/procedural (4k/64k) maybe check drumsynth.

gargaj: that would be 170eur!! whoa Oo

all you need for drumz ...

not having any

its like smashing on some things nearby, mainly. find a good sound, then adapt it.
ya know :)

maybe i´ve got an obsolete opinion ..
samplin´ ´o&´ coverin´is just not the G00D way.. :/
learn da msx! transpose! and compose!
:)

btw ps i still couldnt find that techno track in your album

skrebbel: 06 332k_080319.mp3 it aint techno per se, just having beats for a change.

ah ok, so beats == techno in your book. note taken :)
its a nice album btw

10 years ago all electronica with beats was sold as techno ;)
and thanks, glad you like it.

no...
20 years ago everything was techno. even acid house was techno.
10 years ago somebody invented most retarded term ever electronica

I use Reason 4 which has quite a bit of nice drum sounds....and also I listen to the melodies I come up with and drum beats sorta arrange themselves in my head so I track them down point-and-click.

Unless of course I come up with drums first, then it's the same process but backwards.

I thought electronica was the vaguely IDMish ballads that people put out.

Here in france people have hijacked the very fine word electro using it not to mean the mighty electro funk but just about anything, including (and actually most of the times meaning) the type of rock that people do with electronic music equipment when they would love to play guitar but are too fucking wasted on drugs to learn. Punk for rich people.

oh shit, you're right unsi, its 2008 already.
40 years ago everything was kraftwerk.

damn it !!! use real hardware !!!!!! :)

software can't emulate realhardware (not 100%)....

In the USA, anything that's slighty electronic sounding and not a hip (h|p)op beat = techno. :)

electronica is stuff like boards of canada, aphex twin, chemical brothers, daft punk, madonna ray of light etc.
techno was invented in the usa, michigan, detroit. it was cooked up by 3 young guys which were influenced music heritage of their own hometown and some weird stuff which was played on the electrifying mojo radioshow and new type of disco music of gay parties at the chicago. techno is gritty dystopian genre of music with the soul. like when you hear techno you think "cold city". yep. that's what i call techno. well i'm off. kthnxbai