From the course: EDM Production Techniques: Extreme Sound Mangling
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Ring-mod effect: Wonky drums
From the course: EDM Production Techniques: Extreme Sound Mangling
Ring-mod effect: Wonky drums
- Okay, so this one is pretty simple and straight forward as well. I'm going to show you how you can recycle your drum loops and give them new life by using the ring modulator. First let's start by listening to our loop. (percussion track) Cool, now let's load up the frequency shifter in Ableton and switch it to ring mod mode. Let's play around with some parameters and see what it sounds like. (modulated percussion track) Okay, that's pretty cool, but let's start automating parameters that we can get some movement So what I want to do, is I want to change the kick and the snare to different settings. So I'll make this, say, somewhere around there. We'll go through and we'll make the snare sound different. The easiest to do this is to select the area with the snare. And actually we'll have to zoom in just a little bit to see it what we're doing here. And you hold the shift key down. Some of you may know this already. We can just change it to a different setting. So we'll make..…
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