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Adding a human feel and/or groove - Ableton Live Tutorial
From the course: EDM Production Techniques: Drums
Adding a human feel and/or groove
One thing that people ask me a lot is how I get my drums to sound and feel organic. This has to do with a few programming techniques that I'll explain here. Unless you're going for a completely robotic sound, which is fine, then these techniques should help you accomplish that human feel that you're looking for. The first thing I'm going to show you is programming different velocities. Now this is pretty easy; it's something that I've actually showed you in a different video, but I'm going to cover it again here. When drummers play drums, they're not always playing the same velocities and sounds. So it's important to go through and make sure that you have different amplitudes on each of your hits. So I'm going to show you how to do that in this old loop battery here. I'm going to play this without it. Notice how all the high hats are hitting at the same velocity? Well, that's why it doesn't sound natural. So I'm going to go through and start adjusting these velocities, so that you get…
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Choosing sounds for your kick1m 54s
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Shaping your kick9m 24s
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Choosing sounds for your snare1m 40s
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Shaping your snare7m 47s
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Programming in the Arrange page8m 32s
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Working with drum loops in Drum Rack3m 8s
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Working with drum loops in Battery4m 25s
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Bussing drums for group processing7m 34s
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Finding unique sources for drums6m 1s
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Adding a human feel and/or groove6m 31s
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Creating transitions with drum fills and tape stops14m 31s
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Creative drum FX and automation in Drum Rack and the Arrange page4m 43s
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Working with clip-based automation2m 3s
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Creating reversed sounds and effects3m 25s
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Creating time-expansion glitch effects7m 41s
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The differences between channel and buss effects1m 46s
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EDM drum-mixing techniques10m 21s
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Getting your drums to pop through the mix2m 58s
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