A complete guide to chopping and resequencing drum breaks - the history of the Amen break, transient detection, manual slicing, pitch-shifting individual chops, time-stretching, DAW-specific workflows, and other classic breaks worth knowing.
A deep guide to programming authentic drum and bass breakbeats at 174 BPM - kick and snare placement, halftime vs full-time feel, hi-hat patterns, the skip snare and ghost kick, syncopation, and DAW-specific workflow tips.
A working-depth guide to drum programming fundamentals for electronic music producers - reading drum grids, velocity variation, ghost notes, swing, micro-timing, humanisation techniques, and the conventions of kick/snare/hat placement.
The complete hub guide to drum programming and track arrangement for DnB, dubstep and neurofunk producers. Programmed vs sampled drums, BPM conventions per genre, track structure basics, and links to deep dives on each technique.
A deep guide to modulation in synthesis - LFO shapes and rates, envelopes, envelope followers, velocity, macros, and the techniques for stacking multiple modulators on a single destination to make patches feel alive.
A guide to using samples as raw sound design material rather than finished sounds - layering one-shots into custom hits, resynthesis, resampling chains, time-stretching for texture, and chopping loops into grains.
A complete guide to designing kicks, snares and percussion from scratch for DnB and dubstep - synthesis anatomy of each drum element, transient shaping, layering synth with sample, and processing differences between genres.
A working-depth guide to designing UK dubstep bass - sub, midbass and character layers, LFO routing for wobbles, pitch modulation for growl, formant character, and building patches that transform every two bars.
A deep guide to designing neurofunk bass and growl sounds - wavetable scanning, serial distortion chains, formant filtering, multi-layered patches, and the resampling workflow that defines modern neuro production.
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