Message 10/24
Date: 31-May-00 @ 12:22 AM -
RE: hats&snares for house
Ok, well, this might have been obvious to all of you FUCKING PROS that cut this guy's throat for asking a question, but to DJB...
Ya gotta shuffle those 1/16s quite a bit so that the second 16th note is around where a third triplet would be...
for example...
0 24 48 72 would be normal 16th notes (96ppq)
0 32 48 80 would be a swinging 16th pattern
0 16 32 48 64 80 would be the 16th note triplets
see?
Adds swing. And when you're programming velocities, start simple and give all hats either 64 or 127...work from there. Listen and evaluate...
Also, to add more REAL sounding accents, use a couple of different closed hat samples...some really tight "etching" ticky ones and some pedal-hat sounding "ch" ones with varying decays.
Hmm...what else... don't forget the tamborine! and the agogo. I've found that using these or other cymbal-like percussion really fills things up. I try to keep the agogo level down or it gets too latiny, or it sounds forced. (and also because I'm a silly white boy and my agogo patterns are pure cheese!)
Anyway, that's all I've got for now...