Copy it and paste it twice into two available cells. Pick a sample or two that is metallic and tight but not quite at the bell of the ride. Also, use some sort of humanizing or randomizing feature to make them sound more organic.Ĭreate a third instance of Battery for your ride cymbals. Consider slightly panning and pitch shifting them. They should sound like they’re in a room together. Bring up the reverb send for all of these a bit. These will be your “fill” snares for the amen break (See Blog: Drum and Bass Elements). Use the volume envelope to shorten the decay of them. Now, copy the higher frequency snare into two empty cells and turn those down quite a bit. Make the cutoff exact – no overlapping content. Filter them so that one occupies the lower frequencies and the other occupies the higher frequencies. For the main snare (on 2 and 4), layer 2 similar snares. Punch in this rhythm for your kick.Ĭreate a new instance of Battery for your snares. The rhythm for kicks is pretty standard – 1 and the “and” of 3. This adds a little natural rattling to the kick that is evident in most modern D&B tunes. Layer it with the kick by assigning it to the same MIDI note (C1 in my case). Kick drums in this style typically have fundamentals around 50 Hz.Īdd a tambourine or a shaker sample to this instance.
You may need to tune it down a little bit.
The bass will occupy the sub frequencies. When browsing for a sample to use, look for something punchy – not much sub. Drum and Bass music is typically around this speed.Ĭreate an instance of Batteryfor your kick drum. This is what my liquid D&B groove sounds like… īring the tempo up to 178 BPM. For a more detailed walk-through of sample design, check out Stephane’s blog called Drum and Bass Elements. In this blog, I will walk through a more synthetic style of D&B – liquid D&B. It has evolved so much since the ’90s but is still grounded in acoustic elements.
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