cixx.j@email.it Hi buzzers...as anyone making electronic music, thus i do have hard times trying to make decent beats...after experimenting with the great machinery devs gave us i finally want to share my technique for making beats...hope u find it useful! This is my idea, u can agree to it or not. I've posted that 'cause i never see anyone doing this,almost in the buzztunes i have from other artists. I repeat, hope you find it useful, i dont want to teach anyone the buzz tracker, im not the professor. Grab a loop, it may be a slow loop (85-90 bpms..). Ok, that would be good for my song! You'll think...but after stretching it....nothing satisfies you and as for making fills and slight variations...it's a pain in the A*S!You can overdo the Matilde Tracker commands, ok...but if you want to do a pitch rush, retriggering and still leave the samples sound "natural" and not pure retriggered (real drummers doesnt stop snare's heads, or not?) ? ok, u can use a note delay command...but if u want to add something more...? Or if you want the sample start at a determinate offset? Simply you won't have room (Matilde Tracker has 2 fx "slots") And ok, that's very good for drum'n'bass production...but what will u do if u listened to Royksopp's "Eple" and that funky beat made u go nuts? or if u listened to that damned hiphop's records phat beats...still want to make that jazzy, athmospheric track? Some of u surely know soundforge or beatslicer! Great tool, indeed! So u put your drum sample into them, make the slices but...the slices are not the same in lenght!!So porting them into buzz is very difficult, unless u track with TPB setting at 32!(Trust me, i tried). But this can be very painful!! So i told myself..buzz has it all!! That's my proceeding... Grab a loop, that soul loop at 80-100 bpm... you want to make that damned midtempo jazzy track, u've got the right touch and the right inspiration... so open a matilde tracker and put that loop with that settings. (!!!The loop has to be perfectly cutted at the begin and at the end!!!) C-4 01 .. 11 xx .. .. where xx stands for the loop lenght (remember 16 ticks is 10 in hex, 32 = 20 hex and so..) Example, i have a loop running for 16 ticks so i'll write C-4 .. 11 10 .. .. Press play and the Mtrk will adjust loop's pitch according to your tempo...so your song is 120 bpm and the drums sounds up-pitched of course...slow down the tempo until you hear your loop sounds "cool". Stop playing and load a CnG Recorder, or another recorder (But remember CnG is the best around) Set the recorder's lenght to 1 tick and make a pattern for the recorder, so fill the last column with 1. Now connect the recorder directly after Mtrk. (No FXs...this could make some sample latency) Now start playing and the recorder will make 16 samples with the same lenght!! So what will u do with these? Delete the recorder and now start enojying those slices! Make another pattern in Mtrk that will look like so C-4 02 C-4 .. C-4 .. C-4 .. C-4 .. C-4 .. C-4 .. C-4 .. C-4 .. C-4 .. C-4 .. C-4 .. C-4 .. C-4 .. C-4 .. C-4 .. Now in the latest row place place in sample number column the latest samples...in this case, for a 16 ticks loop, it will be 0F, so now do an interpolation with Ctrl+I and the column will be filled with consecutive sample numbers Now your pattern will look like this C-4 02 C-4 03 C-4 04 ...... and so on! Start playing and you hear there's no difference with the original loop! WOW! So u can already make a track with the original loop's tempo. But you want your track to be a steady mid-tempo!! No problem!! Go up with Buzz's tempo setting and the loop will sound perfectly!! WOW!! But...if you have a little of listening ability..you will notice the loop still sounds triggered....oh no! You did all this thing for nothing!!! Instead of trashing down the bmx you're making this...alternate the samples. Make a pattern like this 0 1 C-4 02 .. .. .. .. .. | ... .. .. .. .. .. .. ... .. .. .. .. .. .. | C-4 03 .. .. .. .. .. C-4 04 .. .. .. .. .. | ... .. .. .. .. .. .. ... .. .. .. .. .. .. | C-4 05 .. .. .. .. .. and so... Your loop doesnt sound any more "retriggered"!!!!Now you have the way for the phatness!!! And now imagine what could u do!!!You could swap samples in the loop and make anything you want...any fill you want, any rush...and your drums will ever sound great!You can make patterns where some sound are retriggered...repeated!! Make your own loop, record & slice it and go funkeeeeee!!! And after that...remember the greatest Sample'n'Hold machine? The rIDMa!! Set it up as i did in the sample file and leave the rIDMa do fills for you!!Try this method at tpb 8, and make smaller slices...omg, what will u do now? How about using this technique on other loops? Record the rIDMa fills and slice them up! Use a loop with toms and make incredible drum solos! what could happen? :) Unleash your imagination and see what we can do...how about starting a best drumming solo compo? (I used Matilde tracker version 1.5, bgtech compressor, masterizer, do-nothing, stats, automaton dc and cng recorder) cixx.j@email.it