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Not to argue the point, but in the article, he can't get the snare sound right so he needed to revert to a sample. I think you're underestimating the difficulty

by eweise 2y ago

Not to argue the point, but in the article, he can't get the snare sound right so he needed to revert to a sample. I think you're underestimating the difficulty of recreating sounds. It would be impossible for instance, to recreate the amen break with a sequencer because nothing would be on a quantized beat and every single drum hit is different.

hnlmorg 2y ago
> Not to argue the point, but in the article, he can't get the snare sound right so he needed to revert to a sample. That’s a different problem. He is trying to exactly recreate a sample but without using the sample. You wouldnt do that in released music because if you didn’t have clearance to use that sample then you’d be still breaking copyright law if you were to recreate it exactly. So what you’d do is recreate the essence of that sample but without making it exactly the same. Also you ignored my point that professional studios have access to more resources and professionals too. > I think you're underestimating the difficulty of recreating sounds. I never said it was easy ;) > It would be impossible for instance, to recreate the amen break with a sequencer because nothing would be on a quantized beat and every single drum hit is different. Sequencers don’t quantise beats. You’re thinking of trackers and they are a completely different beast. You can have your samples aligned any which way you like in sequencers. And even if you were to user a drum machine, you can add padding to your samples. Some drum machines also support dequantisation where they deliberately trigger the samples off beat to give the drums a more natural sound. To give an example of how sequencers don’t quantise: I was hopelessly bad at producing and some of my earliest efforts had little to no quantization at all (if you can forgive the made up word) and thus I required an engineer to come in an redo most of what I did but have those samples triggered on beat. So I’m very familiar with how easy or hard it is to get drums aligned and how quantisation works in a DAW. I did get better at producing as time went on but never good enough to even consider making a career out of it.

by eweise 2y ago

hnlmorg 2y ago

> Not to argue the point, but in the article, he can't get the snare sound right so he needed to revert to a sample. That’s a different problem. He is trying to exactly recreate a sample but without using the sample. You wouldnt do that in released music because if you didn’t have clearance to use that sample then you’d be still breaking copyright law if you were to recreate it exactly. So what you’d do is recreate the essence of that sample but without making it exactly the same. Also you ignored my point that professional studios have access to more resources and professionals too. > I think you're underestimating the difficulty of recreating sounds. I never said it was easy ;) > It would be impossible for instance, to recreate the amen break with a sequencer because nothing would be on a quantized beat and every single drum hit is different. Sequencers don’t quantise beats. You’re thinking of trackers and they are a completely different beast. You can have your samples aligned any which way you like in sequencers. And even if you were to user a drum machine, you can add padding to your samples. Some drum machines also support dequantisation where they deliberately trigger the samples off beat to give the drums a more natural sound. To give an example of how sequencers don’t quantise: I was hopelessly bad at producing and some of my earliest efforts had little to no quantization at all (if you can forgive the made up word) and thus I required an engineer to come in an redo most of what I did but have those samples triggered on beat. So I’m very familiar with how easy or hard it is to get drums aligned and how quantisation works in a DAW. I did get better at producing as time went on but never good enough to even consider making a career out of it.