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Most of the electronic music I make and listen to is very breakbeat-oriented. I've been listening to a lot of Luke Vibert lately, and cannot get over how good all of his samples sound, whether it be drums, strings, vocals, or whathaveyou.

Whenever I try to pitch up my drums to get that "mini-DnB" sound, the drums (or whatever I'm pitching) just sound all grainy and... shitty.

I've fiddled with all the Warp settings and everything else that I could think of, including using multiple other third-party plug-ins (both free and commercial), and really can't seem to get that "classic" drum n bass break sound... again, where it sounds like the drummer is playing on a tiny drumset.

Oh, and I've tried frequency shifting, also. Any thoughts?

Maybe add some drive verb, and cut some bass? Have you tried messing with tone modification?

Just guessing I know very little about D&B

Try to move the warp-markers around. This makes a big difference..

I would add that layering is highly important. In fact, rarely will you hear an oldschool breakbeat sound where the break sample has not been layered and processed carefully, the high-pitched part is only one of the layers. I usually layer with drum machine sounds or sounds from other breaks, EQ and compress to glue stuff together and then start working with the result. Just my two cents.