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0:00hi everyone I hope you're doing well
0:01today we're gonna make some heavy
0:03pounding and Destroy techno from
0:05scratcher by using episode plugin and it
0:07sounds like this
0:12[Music]
0:19and then you have a break
0:35no trends
0:38with the fun
0:47then you can make some stuff
0:50all right so now we are in Everton we're
0:53gonna first change the BPM to 155 and
0:55like I say I want this heavy pounding
0:57hammering kind of industrial technos and
0:59to create this very hammering kick uh
1:01the best way and the simplest way I
1:03found is to basically layer so we will
1:05have one kick which is a traditional 909
1:07key that we were gonna process and then
1:09we will layer with a sample and to
1:11create a hammer effect so the key we're
1:13gonna use is the classic 909 you can
1:15grab the Everton it I choose this
1:17one because everyone can have it but you
1:19can try it with any kind of very Punchy
1:21analog kick it has to dump me to a
1:23process obviously if you want to process
1:25it or you can use one already processed
1:27gonna do a photo fro kick button
1:31just gonna grab this velocity app here
1:33you can experiment with the pitch with
1:35the tuning knob and the GK with the
1:37length of the kick I'm gonna leave it
1:38for now and we're gonna start processing
1:39because that's where all is gonna happen
1:41unfortunately I don't have magic recipe
1:43for you it's all about experimenting
1:45with compression EQ Distortion
1:47saturation it's always about trying
1:49different combinations until you get
1:51something you like so we're gonna start
1:52with multiband compression and I'm
1:54actually gonna use the preset called
1:56Flat Line
1:59then I'm going to add a bit of saturator
2:01and you have different modes I'm gonna
2:03go with soft sign and maybe reducing the
2:05drive a little
2:07and then finally I'm gonna add a bit of
2:09jumbus so jumbo is going to add a bit of
2:11color by default
2:13and you can go in hot because it's going
2:15to add harmonics in the low one thing I
2:16like to do usually is to activate the
2:18compressor
2:24and then I'm gonna bring up the trim and
2:27the transient up
2:32so now you get a nice benchy 909 kick
2:35now the idea is to have this hammering
2:37effect and I found the best way and
2:38easiest way to do that is to use
2:40cinematic impact the most famous Audio
2:42company that does this kind of sfx is
2:43Boom library but they are quite
2:45expensive but you have this website
2:47called 99 sounds where they have
2:49cinematic impact as well so you see it's
2:51called remote cinematic impact and you
2:53have all kind of
2:57oh
2:58impact for the ideas to layer that
3:00obviously we're gonna process it as well
3:01a little bit we're gonna create a new
3:03midi track and I'm gonna drop this one
3:04I'm gonna drop it to a drum rack and
3:06same the midi copy your control and you
3:09copy
3:14by
3:15learning the sound like this kind of
3:16adjusting the volume to your taste but
3:18here are two tricks I can give you to
3:19kind of make you own and modify it a
3:21little bit the first one so you have a
3:23filter on your sampler and we're gonna
3:24basically low pass it the sample and
3:27that is to low pass it and then apply a
3:28filter envelope to kind of quickly grab
3:30the transient so we're gonna
3:33Loop of this then you can experiment the
3:36type of filter you can add a bit of
3:37Drive
3:39there is there really depends
3:42what you want 3db one will let pass more
3:44harmonics and then we need to go to
3:46control and you can see when you click
3:47to envelope here you have the feature
3:49envelope where you can control the
3:50amount now we're gonna see how the
3:51envelope can affect the sound
3:56you can obviously play with the decals
3:58where the longer the decade the longer
3:59it gonna pass higher frequency
4:08all right I like something like this not
4:09too much we have this click at the
4:11beginning that's all what I wanted now
4:12you can hear with the kick
4:15[Music]
4:18you can see there is some kind of
4:20problem because we lose a bit of low end
4:22first thing you can do it's basically
4:23pitch it according to what needs to be
4:26done
4:32here it's pretty solid we have a nice
4:34and tight low end now the second trick
4:35is to kind of modify as well this
4:37hammering effect is to basically apply a
4:39pitch envelope so here again I'll give
4:41you some value but you can experiment
4:43and we're gonna go with 12 DB of
4:45modulation
4:47foreign
4:57so then here again up to your experiment
5:00until you find something you like you
5:01might need to bring back your original
5:02kick to kind of adjust everything
5:05[Music]
5:12all right I kind of like like this now
5:14obviously we can process it as well then
5:16I'm gonna use OverDrive you can use amp
5:18and here again you're drinking until you
5:20find something interesting
5:38so next I'm gonna add kick punch this is
5:40a rack I made with some Reverb and
5:42Distortion to kind of help you kick cut
5:45through the mix here I'm gonna use it to
5:46enhance the mid High I will put it in
5:48the description if you want to find out
5:49more
5:57to kind of control of that
6:01okay I'm just gonna rename these two
6:03color and then what we're gonna do is
6:05we're gonna group them so maybe we need
6:06to adjust the volume a little bit
6:13all right so now we're gonna process
6:15this even more so again experimenting
6:18I'm gonna maybe use OverDrive this 10 is
6:20depends how nasty you want to kick
6:44okay now we can try to add some amp so
6:46I'm just gonna put in Duo mode and then
6:48I'll put the base mode
7:05thank you
7:16okay another way to process kick is as
7:18well use an EQ here I'm gonna use it
7:20just promote to like kind of rebalance
7:48and then finally we're going to add drum
7:50boost we're just gonna compact
7:51everything with the compressor with the
7:53limit as well it's gonna tame everything
8:05again here you can experiment depends
8:08how you want your kick
8:17and I'm gonna reduce the output to -6 I
8:21could do it here but yeah I'm pretty
8:22happy with this kick now all right final
8:24thing you can add this is like a little
8:25extra I've made this rock with the bit
8:27repeat rack so that's gonna be great for
8:29our Arrangement where you can just like
8:33so yeah that can be pretty handy now
8:35here from our Kick Drum we can generate
8:37some percussion Loop and I'll create it
8:39basically a rack one or two months ago
8:41called this industrial techno kick rack
8:44which is basically you have your dry
8:45signal and then you have different
8:46inside the rack where we process add
8:49Reverb add percussion and you can get
8:51with it
8:55like this and we're gonna get inspired
8:58of this obviously I'm not gonna use the
8:59rock so this way you can understand
9:00better how it's working here I could
9:03create a return to send my kick to get
9:05this effect so here I'm just gonna
9:06create a new track and I'm gonna select
9:09as input basically uh my kick and I'm
9:11gonna put in and I'm not gonna put pause
9:13Mr I'm gonna put post I fix so our first
9:15layer will be the kind of a top layer
9:17percussive having this very distorted
9:19delayed packaging which is Gonna Groove
9:22and bit of byte as well so we need first
9:24a delay so here obviously we want our
9:26drive 100 percent
9:28we just want the Percocet things and
9:31then we can change the time as well I'm
9:32gonna remove the sink and having maybe
9:34one three and a bit more feedback
9:37then I just the frequency
9:41it depends if you want something more
9:44clicky or more
9:48remove the ping pong as well
9:51very important so all I need to get this
9:56okay now it's great but we want to add a
9:58bit more byte first things it's very
10:00stereo and I'm gonna put it in mono
10:03okay and we're gonna add bite with drive
10:06so this is basically the same chain I'm
10:07recording that I've done in my rack and
10:09I'm gonna put in boost you're gonna put
10:11the volume at six
10:21pretty nasty
10:26so then again if it's too distorted for
10:27you adjust this parameter now we're
10:30gonna add a bit of reverbs I'm gonna use
10:32everything basic Reverb so this is my
10:34default preset is probably different
10:35than new Everton one usually this is a
10:37not too long Reverb which sounds great
10:39and I'm just gonna adjust a little bit
10:41the GK
10:46all right pretty nasty but again we can
10:49get even crazier and add a bit more
10:51overdrive the great thing with overdrive
10:52is sometimes you can use it just as a
10:54filter if you reduce the drive you can
10:56just basically
11:14all right now we're gonna add sidechain
11:16so I'm gonna use the rack I've took from
11:18the oneno YouTube channel it's basically
11:20a shipper with a utility which gonna
11:22bring down your volume so now we can
11:25adjust the side chain
11:25[Music]
11:39so this I like to keep it subtle you
11:42don't hear it too much just a little bit
11:43then obviously you can put it up more in
11:46the front at some part of the truck
11:47obviously so now we're gonna add a
11:48second top layer kick I'm just gonna
11:50duplicate like this I have all
11:52everything together I wanna more or less
11:54exactly the same things but without the
11:56Distortion so I don't want it to be
11:57noisy more like a kind of classic
11:59Distortion so I'm gonna remove the amp
12:01and you're gonna see
12:04we get more like kind of a classic
12:06percussion then everything to say pretty
12:08much the same maybe I'm gonna change the
12:09filter
12:15yeah like this and now maybe we're gonna
12:17adjust the volume with the rest
12:19[Music]
12:23all right and this is our solid base so
12:25it took time but it's really like the
12:27foundation it should be able to carry on
12:29just by itself like you don't need
12:31anything else because sometimes you will
12:32have Parts in your truck where it's just
12:34displaying all right so now we can walk
12:35into the drum so I'm gonna add some hats
12:37some closet hat and we're gonna use a
12:39drum rack and I'm gonna allow two sample
12:41of my processed techno sample pack I
12:43want something pretty Sharp
12:44I'm gonna actually put them in classic
12:52and I want something like very
12:54clicky so the same here no sustained no
12:57release
13:00in time of pattern I will do the classic
13:0216 plus I had
13:05so we're gonna adjust the velocity to
13:06get a bit of GrooVe so I'm gonna reduce
13:08all you can select all and then alt and
13:10go down a little bit around halfway or
13:1340 yeah and then the one of beat we're
13:15gonna bring it up to have this
13:19now we can add this one as well stronger
13:24so you get something different now we
13:26can add a bit of delay so obviously the
13:27delay time will always depend on your
13:29midi pattern you might want to
13:31experiment here we're just gonna get rid
13:32of the filter and yeah just see what
13:47what worked the best for you and then
13:48we're gonna add a bit of Reverb so here
13:50we're gonna use a hardware River this
13:52time because we want to give a bit of
13:53color so then we're gonna go in
13:55convolution only and I'm gonna use the
13:58one from the mate forums bank which is
14:00called Big snare
14:04she's getting this adding this kind of
14:06little granular things now one thing to
14:07make things even more dirty and neutral
14:09it's obviously adding some saturation on
14:11top of all of that so again you can use
14:13amp you can use OverDrive pedal uh we're
14:16gonna use OverDrive here I like because
14:18with overdrive you can always kind of
14:19filter it in the same time that you
14:21distort so that's what we're gonna do
14:22here
14:40and then finally to add more Groove
14:41we're gonna add some side chains
14:51[Music]
14:57okay perfect open hat what we can do we
15:00can just duplicate the track because the
15:01process effect is the same we're just
15:03gonna get rid of the delay because we
15:05don't need and we're gonna need to load
15:06with new samples obviously and the new
15:08midi clip so here I want to pick off bit
15:10noisy open heart or the best way here is
15:12usually to layer as well so here I've
15:13used three samples
15:16I want to play together
15:18and we want that to be offbeat so we're
15:21just gonna put them the three like this
15:24now here what I've done is I slightly
15:26run the second one a bit of beat
15:34it either take something and then once
15:37again we can just adjust the volume
15:38[Music]
15:43so now let's create the right and for
15:46the right we're gonna use the classic
15:47909 core kit we're gonna use the right
15:50and Open Hearts of beat nothing crazy
15:52but classic which always will
15:55now for the right we're gonna put it in
15:57Stereo and we're gonna use the delay and
15:59we're gonna use the Haas effect so for
16:00this you just need to put in time bring
16:02everything to zero and one need to be
16:04around 16 minutes again we're just gonna
16:06bring the feedback remove the filter
16:08remove the ping pong put the drive with
16:10100 I'm gonna solo the ride so you can
16:12hear the
16:23something like that now one thing I like
16:25to do is to pitch it as well I like to
16:27use the frequency shifter in frequency
16:29mode because it's gonna pinch but
16:30without changing the length too much so
16:32then as I obviously depends what you
16:34want
16:35negatively positively
16:42kind of like like this and then we're
16:43gonna use the same process done for the
16:46open heart with the hybrid Reverb and
16:48the sidechain so now you might wonder
16:49why I don't just put kind of this in a
16:51return and I send uh true I could do
16:53that just I usually always do on the
16:55track because I have more control over
16:57and can happen sometimes I want a bit
16:59less Reverb on one on the other or
17:01process overdrive differently
17:03maybe reducing the bike chain and
17:05finally adjust the volume according to
17:07the rest of the track
17:13[Music]
17:21now we're gonna add the snare so I will
17:23go to grab the drum Rock and I'm gonna
17:25Layer Two snare so usually here I would
17:27go with different type of nails some
17:29more like percussive with maybe a bit of
17:31body some more very noisy so here I have
17:34this one noisy this one a bit percussive
17:38and together and this is gonna play
17:40every two bit
17:42nine time of effect I'm gonna take again
17:44the same Reverb and overdrive you know I
17:47like to recycle things when when things
17:48walk
17:50maybe I can make it a bit more nastier
18:00something like that and then just adjust
18:01the volume compared to the track
18:10I can add another kind of percussion
18:12Loop by using a 909 Club so I'm just
18:15gonna bring the rack here and I'm gonna
18:17put it on clear on the beat
18:21to add Groove you can add some delay
18:30[Music]
18:36in term of process again I'm gonna just
18:38grab same Reverb and maybe overdrive
18:40down here
18:45might reduce the drive
18:53and here again maybe some sidechain
19:07foreign
19:10are very important for this style I'm
19:12gonna show you two other tricks I'm not
19:14gonna use on this track but I think it
19:16was mentioning the first pack you can
19:18add is kind of using a kind of a tribal
19:20percussion and kind of process it a
19:22little bit to make it fit into your
19:23industrial techno track so for example I
19:25have this kind of
19:28[Music]
19:29packaging that you can process and make
19:31it feed track so first thing you can do
19:33is pitch it so we're gonna use Everton
19:35shifter again here you like you can
19:36experiment I like to use the frequency
19:38shifter mode and then you can pitch it
19:40down or up
19:42oh
19:47you can do is maybe duplicate try with
19:50the ring
20:00again just experiment until you find
20:01something you like we're gonna add a bit
20:03of saturation just to make things a bit
20:05more dirtier
20:23okay now let's add some sidechain
20:28and now let's blend it with the rest of
20:30the track
20:40all right in the second way I found you
20:42find often I didn't use for this track
20:44but it's still having even more like a
20:46noisier hardware basically you just have
20:48the wall of noise hot in your face so
20:51here I have
20:52a noisy open hat
20:54Rebecca see it's now noisy as well
20:57and this kind of know the percussion as
20:59well and then together any turn off
21:01button we're gonna use our groovy
21:03Crescendo velocity again so you need to
21:06kind of have this 16 pattern but
21:08obviously we're gonna reduce the
21:10velocity
21:15to have this kind of crescendo
21:19now one thing which is pretty common is
21:21to use the vocoder with the noise mode
21:23so I even have a product for that where
21:28it's pretty handy but this is already
21:30pretty much known I'm not gonna use it
21:32here obviously you want to add grooves
21:33so we're going to add a delay here again
21:35you can experiment
21:53okay that's worked pretty well you can
21:54again add some delay Reverb Distortion
21:56but it was too quickly
22:01so don't be shy to layer extra and extra
22:04okay so for this track I wanted
22:05something a bit more uh kind of melodic
22:08hypnotic and we're gonna create that so
22:09we're gonna go with waste table so there
22:11is plenty of weight but basically the
22:12idea is to take pretty simple sound and
22:14again after a lot of distortion and in a
22:17big Reverb and it should usually work
22:19perfectly now there is some few things
22:21you need to do with your scent to make
22:22it a bit more weird and interesting
22:24mainly playing with the pH you can play
22:27with FM we can play with the modern fall
22:29or walk so for example here with the
22:31modern and the wob
22:33you get this kind of almost type of
22:36sound and so we're gonna use oscillator
22:382 we're gonna use the Sawtooth as well
22:40an idea is to slightly the tune to get
22:42this weird effect
22:47instant weird feeling now we can make
22:49this a bit more Plucky with the
22:50amplitude envelope reduce the attack at
22:52zero break down the sustain
22:55and yeah you get pretty much the same we
22:58can have some filter modulation so we're
23:00gonna bring down the filter again to
23:01open it fast with an envelope like we
23:03did with the kick
23:05that's a
23:07to you you go to Matrix
23:09I like to do that because it's a
23:12transient it makes you sound a bit more
23:13percussive I'll talk about Pitch
23:16modulation we can use rfo to modulate
23:17the picture I'm just gonna put one
23:18semitone
23:20you can leave like this pretty not bad
23:23I'm gonna use the triangle you can
23:25experiment here obviously and depending
23:27of the rate it will kind of pitch
23:29differently
23:35yeah light sounds okay so like I said we
23:38want to bring this sound into a lot of
23:40distortion so here we're gonna use amp
23:42this time then again you can experiment
23:44with different modes different value of
23:46gain middle
23:48lead is pretty nasty that's what we want
23:51and you're gonna see when we're gonna
23:52add a lot of Reverb it's gonna all make
23:54sense
23:56sterile
23:58and then
24:00and we're gonna use the Reverb again my
24:02classic default preset but we're gonna
24:05use a way much longer GK
24:08kind of big Warehouse
24:09[Music]
24:12we're gonna EQ a little bit that you see
24:16there is a lot of low information we
24:18don't really need
24:20and we're gonna use this maybe to tame
24:22the very high high frequency we can
24:25use it as a low pass filter as well for
24:28the rest of the track at the progression
24:32all right that's cool but we need it a
24:34bit more in the face so we're gonna use
24:36jumpers for that to watch my video about
24:37drum but you know I like to use this
24:38exactly for that we're gonna use the
24:40compression
24:41okay maybe reduce the trim
24:46and then maybe
24:47[Music]
24:52crunch gonna add extra harmonics in the
24:55mid high and dem's gonna tame this very
24:57high nozzy frequency that are a bit
24:59annoying
25:00[Music]
25:05now we're gonna obviously add a bit of
25:07side chain maybe a bit less than
25:11before especially that our midi pattern
25:15here is going to be pretty simple and
25:17it's gonna be on the beat gonna go F
25:19sharp D sharp f d would sound like this
25:22[Music]
25:23and then every two repetition we're
25:25gonna press this up again after the D so
25:27it's gonna be like
25:28[Music]
25:34sound like this
25:35[Music]
25:41then so it play like this and then after
25:44I pitch it up one octave upper and now
25:46it sounds awful pattern like this
25:48[Music]
26:01foreign
26:10Melody the whole track now I want you to
26:13add another extra scent just to add a
26:14bit of variation it's gonna help for the
26:16arrangement so here I'm not gonna use
26:17Ableton VST I'm gonna use Rave generator
26:20which is a free vested that you probably
26:22own if you are making techno and inside
26:24you can find all the classic chords this
26:26one is the most used lately everyone is
26:28using it
26:30and you can just take the effect from
26:31this one
26:34put it in there
26:37pretty cool MIDI
26:39[Music]
26:49and you could create a whole track on
26:50that it's pretty trending right now but
26:52we're gonna do something a bit different
26:53and we're gonna use actually we're gonna
26:55go to voice and we're gonna choose the
26:57party one and we want something like
26:59almost percussive so you're gonna see
27:00how it
27:05and we're gonna use dish up here
27:08and here and you're gonna here is
27:11getting something pretty
27:16[Laughter]
27:31and that's gonna be perfect for for
27:34example our first we're gonna have kind
27:35of what we're gonna call the Currys with
27:39spout and then we're gonna take a break
27:40from this melody and
27:42you can have this going on with the perk
27:45and after we're gonna have a plus b so
27:47the Currys and the verse together so the
27:48lead and this one playing together
27:53which works well as well okay now we can
27:55maybe mix actually I didn't mix the the
27:57other one to see how it
28:08is
28:09all of that with the headphone as well
28:25foreign
28:33but yeah we have our level pretty much
28:36we can always adjust later on so for the
28:39arrangement pattern will be something
28:40too long to recreate from scratch I've
28:42kind of set it up here in session mode
28:44so you can just like switch send by
28:46scene I will let you explore it by
28:47yourself you can play with the scene
28:49pretty much the rough Arrangement you
28:51might want to use the bit repeat you
28:52need to do some low pass return on the
28:54lead but you get the main structure I
28:56didn't want you to regret from scratch
28:57because it would take long and you don't
28:58really learn anything from it but I'm
29:00gonna go over through I'm gonna just put
29:02the headphones so you're gonna start
29:04with just the kick drum
29:09before they had
29:26nice open
29:29[Music]
29:34maybe sometimes you can be confused
29:43[Music]
29:50and then you can probably tomorrow
30:07and then you have a break
30:23no Trends ship is going to put it on
30:34then you can make some crabs bring back
30:37the home and add the drums are different
30:39in the first time
30:43now
30:52then another break
30:57maybe a review
31:10this will be kind of our break from the
31:13mainly so like kind of diverse
31:19again you can do something
31:22[Music]
31:30and here again we're gonna reintroduce
31:36[Music]
31:39the main League
32:05so here I decided to play the snare
32:08offbeat so add some percussion
32:17and then our final break
32:31[Music]
32:34and then you can let it play here
32:40and then it will be the final break
32:43maybe you can get rid of this
32:45[Music]
32:46[Applause]
32:52and then you finish the truck like this
32:55just with the drums
32:56[Music]
33:01slightly getting rid of the dress
33:08so obviously like I kind of fast forward
33:11like some parts you know some parts you
33:13can make them last longer to create a
33:15food truck but like this you got the
33:16idea of the structure how it should be
33:19and yeah you can play I didn't play but
33:20you can play with the bit repeat on the
33:22kick I've done some mute with the push
33:23uh when I was changing the scene as well
33:25but yeah you can jump with that
33:27especially if you have a push or lunge
33:29but it's great but yeah I hope you like
33:31this video the project is over for free
33:33I will put the link in description you
33:35can grab it experiment modify a little
33:37bit hope you learn a few trick hope you
33:38enjoy uh thank you very much for
33:40watching guy and see you soon bye

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