Point to take away? I recommend making your main drum consistent in volume, as well as mono in the low frequencies for best compatibility if it ever goes to a mono system. It’s the difference between head bobbing and just another drum loop.
You’d be amazed at how different just a couple tweaks can do to a drum loop. (Or actually for a creative effect to the main drum.)Īpart from drums, velocity gets super interesting when you start messing with velocities on your hi-hat and percussion loops. If I do adjust velocity on drums, I tend to do it on secondary drums which help fill in the background of the beat. So you’ll hear people saying you can add that ‘human-like’ feel to your drums, and sure you can do that as a creative effect by adjusting velocity on your main drum, but I tend to keep my main drum consistent. Since we make music on a computer, computers are able to replicate a sound perfectly over and over and over! But this is not human-like music, since if we were to record a drum hit 3 times in a row, we would get different velocities and timbres (how it sounds)!īut something to think about is in my generation (90’s baby), most of the music I’ve listened to was mostly computer music, so I’m used to how this music sounds, and quite frankly, I like it! It can also be used to create a different sound/feel, and also create very powerful rhythms from what would just sound basic if all volume were the same! Velocity helps us to create an organic feel to our digital sounds. So let’s get into these tips! Tip 1: Velocity
Simply clicking in drums and other percussion elements is a big learning task at first, as you have to learn how some music theory works, and where you can place your sounds for them to sound good!
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