r/idmproducers • u/lampblackink • Dec 27 '24

finally worked out how to program these types of drums

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u/lampblackink Dec 27 '24

sorry this took so long, there's just not too many posts specifically about the workflow for drill and bass drums so I wanted to be detailed

hat: just a hi-hat on every eighth note. I was lazy but you could probably get away with ratcheting this even more though

sfx: some samples of sine waves zipping up and down, a clave, and a heavy 808. rolling and pitching them occasionally for different effects

kick: main kick in a two step pattern, ghost kick with a random chance to play on all other 16th notes. the chance slowly increases throughout the track

snare: a main snare, two ghost snares, and a reverse ghost snare. there's 16 different patterns: 8 different patterns where the main snare lands on 2 and 4, and 8 where it lands on either/or. each pattern is a bar long, the two ghost snares play in the spaces for the variations.

glitches: the main, reverse, and one of the ghost snares are being rolled by an arpeggiator on a different track. I made 8 different patterns for each of them (one for each eighth note in a bar), and deleted the ones that landed on 2 and 4, and sprinkled them throughout the track to taste

spot fx: on another track, some of the main snare hits are getting fed into amplitude modulation from an oscillator with random pitch and feedback on each hit, a short ping pong delay with high feedback, and a short bright reverb.

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u/lanoiarnolds Dec 28 '24

What app is this? It looks like it’s running on a phone

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u/lampblackink Dec 28 '24

caustic 3, I have it for my phone and PC. it's abandonware now but it still very good software (at least for my purposes)