Try using real drums in place. Sounds refreshing

what hasbone said.

you can take any drumloop, sampled from real drummers usually, chop it (.rex files are your friend), and use the individual hits for building your drum kit.

I suggest you google for "darkbeats sampleswap", click the first result and take a deep breath.

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I will find something real then as well. Im also interested in the heavily processed kind of thing that makes a sample sound completely different.

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Originally posted by Knowland I will find something real then as well. Im also interested in the heavily processed kind of thing that makes a sample sound completely different.

This is what I was going to suggest.. the list of effects/processes you can use/abuse are so vast. By just by messing around you can come up with some interesting sounds

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A few plugins worth checking out:

- CamelSpace (http://www.camelaudio.com/camelspace.php)
- Tone2 Filterbank 3 (http://www.tone2.com/html/filterban..._au_synthe.html)
- Glitch (http://illformed.org/plugins/glitch/)
- Audio Damage BigSeq II (http://www.audiodamage.com/effects/...t.php?pid=AD022)
- Electronisounds Ubergate (http://www.electronisounds.com/Ubergate.html)
- Tiny God Breather, Throbber, etc. (http://www.tinygod.com/)

There are others as well, but each of these have rhythmic effects that can drastically alter your percussion, or you just start with an existing tone (e.g., sine, square, saw, noise) and create totally new percussion elements from them.

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in a lot of the house that i do i combine an open hat with a synth's whitenoise generator and modulate the amp adsr over time. i'm still using the VEE for both snares, claps, hats and rides. they sound really good to me : /

take your drum loop and add whatever number of the following:


filtering
distortion
bitcrushing
chopping
flanging

have fun

really short delay with a long release, in stereo. on any short sound. listen to Prodigy - Scienide (old fucking great track), it has some really interesting elements to it. Cant believe how he came up with that. listen in the background about 2:21 if u have the track.

I think it's pretty much a given thing if you are looking to replace the standard drum sounds by loosing the tried and tested hi hats and snares.Then its all to do with anything you can come up with witch works for you you.

some producers use this to full effect but not many pull it of.
mainly because its pointless and to much fuckin about.

I think that my answer may be obvious but you could use claps instead of snaredrum. Let's say that you have a bassline with kickdrums. 2nd and 4th kicks have snaredrums played at the same time. You can replace them with claps.

But all in all you can do a lot by using some interesting effects in your drumloops, just play with the effects and find something interesting

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Originally posted by owien mainly because its pointless and to much fuckin about.

Yeah, might just as well recycle the same sounds over and over.

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