Overview
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Learn how to create super-pro drum sounds for electronic dance music (EDM) productions.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Using the exercise files
- Choosing sounds for your kick
- Shaping your kick
- Choosing sounds for your snare
- Shaping your snare
- Programming in the Arrange page
- Working with drum loops in Drum Rack
- Working with drum loops in Battery
- Bussing drums for group processing
- Finding unique sources for drums
- Adding a human feel and/or groove
- Creating transitions with drum fills and tape stops
- Creative drum FX and automation in Drum Rack and the Arrange page
- Working with clip-based automation
- Creating reversed sounds and effects
- Creating time-expansion glitch effects
- The differences between channel and buss effects
- EDM drum-mixing techniques
- Getting your drums to pop through the mix
- Next steps
