Designing electronic drums with Live 7 - tutorial videos

forge · Post by **forge** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 4:07 pm

Hi all

some of you may have heard my occasional murmurings about my new tutorial video series in the works, well now it's finally up online!

here's what it says on the site:

This series reveals the steps to design fat, brilliant modern and classic electronic drum sounds that will make the rhythm tracks in your electronic music productions be noticed. The techniques Craig shows you can then be applied to any type of sound to make them stand out and shine!

Digital Download and Online Access available immediately!
Boxed Version shipping in 2 - 3 weeks
Product Highlights

• 15 Tutorials / Over 3 Hours Total Runtime
• For all beginner to advanced Live users
• Easy to understand tutorials written by an expert
• Simple to use interface that works on Mac and PC
• No installation required - just insert DVD and learn
• View List of Tutorials on "Designing Electronic Drums"

their words, not mine!

http://www.grooveboxmusic.com/store/tra ... drums.html

I'll post a live pack containing the rack of the drum kit that is built throughout the series tomorrow - it's 2am here now!

there is a sample video to look at there on the site.

hambone1 · Post by **hambone1** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 5:06 pm

Hey.. it looks like someone with the same name as you... except he's an 'Ableton Live master'!

Angstrom · Post by **Angstrom** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 5:39 pm

perhaps it's just me, but this reads oddly:

... will make the rhythm tracks in your electronic music productions be noticed

Surely : "get the rhythm tracks in your electronic music noticed" , or
"make the rhythm tracks in your electronic music stand out".

Did I miss the main point of this thread?

djgroovy · Post by **djgroovy** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 9:22 pm

And i thought your name was alexis.

I liked the preview video.

Angstrom · Post by **Angstrom** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 10:21 pm

That's his porn name.

djgroovy · Post by **djgroovy** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 10:26 pm

I heard his movie name was harrison.forge

Michael Hatsis · Post by **Michael Hatsis** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 11:35 pm

Yeah, forgie's havin a bit of an identity crisis as of late

anyway, congrats on the release!

leedsquietman · Post by **leedsquietman** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 11:48 pm

Congratulations and good luck with the video

forge · Post by **forge** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 11:57 pm

thanks all

I'm a Gemini, thus a great source of Identity Crises (right Angstrom?

)

BTW Angstrom - you're not the first one to make the porn star comment on that name

I'll put up a Live pack in a few hours that shows the kit etc

I seem to recall it's possible to somehow make your own content for the Lessons window? Anyone remember how to to that?

forge · Post by **forge** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 6:05 am

below is a Live pack with a Live set containing the original unimpressive beat box sample that the kit was made out of, then a sliced version of it to show the kit's base state, then the final resulting kit.

keep the info text view open to get a little explanation on the track headers

basically this series is more of an exercise in sound design and synthesis using mainly Simpler and some of Live's effects - hence the point of using the crappy beatbox from my very own vocal cords - to really demonstrate that you can start with literally anything and make it usable.

Cheers

forge · Post by **forge** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 1:04 pm

The proper link for the live pack is up now on the Groovebox site

http://www.grooveboxmusic.com/misc/Groo ... BoxKit.zip

misteron · Post by **misteron** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 1:14 pm

forge wrote:The proper link for the live pack is up now on the Groovebox site

http://www.grooveboxmusic.com/misc/GrooveboxBBoxKit.zip

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EDIT:
Got it fro the link to the other link
Good vid. You know your stuff.
On;y suggestion I'd make is to slightly extend the gap u leave for the viewwer to hear the new state of the sample.
I like the kick u came up with to.
Very good illustrative example by using that beatbox sample too.
Best of luck with the release.

forge · Post by **forge** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 1:25 pm

whooops! Okay, I let them know, cheers!

EDIT: he left out a hyphen!

http://www.grooveboxmusic.com/misc/Groo ... BoxKit.zip

misteron · Post by **misteron** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 1:49 pm

see my edit above

mastermad · Post by **mastermad** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 1:55 pm

Sorry for the bad link, hadnt had my coffee yet