Travis Barker is a musician and designer, most famous for being and having been the drummer of the rock band Blink This is an online virtual drum set inspired by Mike Portnoy who is best known for being a co-founder of Dream Theater. A virtual drum set is a virtual representation of real-world drums that allows musicians to experiment with drum sounds without investing in real equipment.
You can play these virtual drum sets by clicking the drums with your mouse, or press keys on your computer keyboard. You can play virtual drums online by visiting VirtualDrumming. Use your computer keyboard or mouse to play the drum set sounds.
You can click the menu on the top left to view over 25 different available virtual drum sets. Hip Hop Makers is a music production website that launched in to teach music lovers how to make music, sell beats, and make money from music. Your email address will not be published. Search for: Search. These online virtual drums are very basic with features but can be fun to play with. At its core, drum programming is easy.
It might be a certain technique, the use of polyrhythms, programming complex hi-hat patterns, trying to make your drums sound more human, and so on. Learning how to program drum patterns, like anything else in the field of music production, is a lifelong process. But there are key benefits to being a good drum programmer:. Because the skills you learn through drum programming also apply to other facets of music production. Good drum programming stands out.
Which begs the most important question, how do you become good at programming drums? No worries, go listen to some drops. The problem might be that their intro sounds too boring. Okay, go listen to some intros. Listening is essential. You need to listen to tracks that have good drums. Not only do you need to listen, you need to analyze them.
Take down notes, question why they used particular sounds, think about how strong the groove is and what sounds are contributing to it the most. Treat it as production time and spend minutes listening to tracks, specifically the drum patterns in those tracks. If you need a starting point, here are tracks that I consider to have fantastic drums:. Good sounding drums starts with good samples. The better your source material is, the less work you have to do.
The same goes with kicks. Obviously using good samples still means you have to actually sequence your drum patterns. One thing that helps, of course, is to develop your ear to listen for samples that will fit well. The best way to do this, other than to practice, is to again listen to other music. Unfortunately there are a lot of low quality sample packs out there, free and paid. This is a good way to test the quality of the samples and decide whether you think the pack is of quality.
Save money and get creative with what you have. One of the most popular websites to download drum samples is Splice Sounds sponsored. There are a number of places you can find free samples, including our list of free sample packs :. When you have too many sample packs, you tend to look for the perfect sample. In fact, this can happen regardless of how many sample packs you have. These are the samples you should be using. Look for the sample that works alright, and then process it so it becomes the perfect sample.
You come across one that has a nice thwack, but not enough high-end. Use it. After that, you can either boost the high-end with an EQ or add some distortion, or you can layer it with another snare that contains the high-end character that you want. Instead of listening to the sample as it is, listen to what it could be. Essentially, there are two main ways of programming drum patterns: drawing in MIDI notes, or dragging in audio samples directly.
Working with more acoustic genres, or maybe you like to add manual swing? Audio might be better for you. Play around with both ways of working. Perhaps you might like to work in MIDI, but prefer using individual tracks then a drum rack -style workflow.
Go from boring loops to professional drums with these 10 creative tips. Get inspired with out-of-the-box tactics and practical techniques applicable in any DAW. To get a cohesive sounding drum section, you might need to spend ludicrous amounts of time adjusting the velocity on your hi-hats, or the reverb decay tail on your clap.
Many producers, however, feel they need to focus on complexity more than anything. They feel their drums need to have at least 15 different channels, and that the more percussion they add, the better. The problem of over-complexity or over-producing is a big one. The important thing to note here is that the simple solution is often the best. The other reason for avoiding complexity is that your drums, while essential, only make up a single part of the track. You need to leave room for your basses, synths, FX, and other bits of audio scattered around the place.
In addition to all that, the more simple your drums are, the more impact they have. The hard-hitting dubstep that was popular a few years back had incredibly simple drum patterns, as did a lot of earlier trance.
What stood out was that each drum hit punched through the mix. When your drum sections are too complex, the main features kick, snares, claps, toms of your drum section often become hidden. No one wants to listen to the exact same 1-bar drum loop for 16 bars.
Yes, you should have a core drum loop: in most dance music this will be your kick, clap, hat, and maybe toms or other percussion—the sounds that play every bar. But you also want to add material to make the drum loop more interesting. Doing this turns what would be a boring 8 bar loop into a far more interesting one. What you can do is simply vary the sequence at certain points to create interest. For example, instead of having a reverse clap before the last clap every 2 bars, you have the last clap hit twice one hit on the beat, and then another straight after on the offbeat.
Instead of having a low tom on the last 16th of the 4th bar, you add an extra kick in. And instead of having a gated snare on the last beat of the 8th bar, you remove everything apart from a clap. Not sure where to start when adding interest and variation to a drum loop?
The amount of thought and care that went into every section is pretty incredible, and upon launching the program for the first time I felt like a kid in a candy store. There are tons of different presets for each kit and 35 mixer effects EQ, delay, reverb, filters, dynamics, distortion, modulation.
Have a beat idea in your head that you want to find quickly? Just tap out the groove on the drumset in the window and Superior Drummer is smart enough to give you grooves that match and order them by how closely they resemble your beat.
All I had to do was select Roland from the list and it worked perfectly - even the hi-hat which other programs seem to have trouble with initially. If you are at all interested in programming virtual drums or expanding the options of your electronic drum set at home, you absolutely should not miss this one. Coming in at my 2nd place choice is Addictive Drums 2 - if you are playing live on an electronic drum set.
There are still tons of options with mics, tone shaping, and effects to keep you busy. I really enjoy the funk and jazz kits as they add quite a unique sound compared to the default library.
Just be warned - XLN Audio will suck all the money out of your wallet once you get addicted to all these expansions!
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