How To Make Your Own Kick Drum From Scratch - Ableton Live Tutorial By DJ Zilos

[ANGELO13111]

tapping a microphone? are you serious?

[TheFoxProj]

@DJZilos Hey Bro i'm new in the ableton, can u show how to make a basic song from scratch? plz

[Sincrol]

HOLD ON A SECOND! how did you make those curved automotion?

[willbeardell]

@Sincrol draw mode dude

[TribalSMD]

very nice, just the way how i make those kicks, but i didnt know the rack for kick processing. thanks buddy

[justcavalla]

VERY NICE TUTORIAL. HOW ABOUT CREATING FURTHER SOUNDS SUCH AS SNARE OR CYMBALS??

[100010011100]

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skip his faggot intro

[electroguetta]

@100010011100 Funny.. I didn't see any bundles of bound up twigs in the intro.

[100010011100]

@electroguetta ironic a guy named after david GAYtta defends the homo WHOOPS LOL

[Tripbag]

I mean, it would be silly to give any microphone a heavy flogging, but some people might assume a big smack equals a big fat kick

[Tripbag]

I think it should be mentioned in a little blurb box or something that you must make sure your microphone can handle a tap like that.

For example, tapping a ribbon mic or maybe even a wide diaphragm capacitor/condenser mic may damage the transducing element by knocking it out of place. This would result in a future inability to capture the entire frequency spectrum of some, if not all sounds.

[DJZilos]

@Tripbag Good call, I wasn't thinking clearly when setting up this tutorial... I used an SM 58 for this tutorial, and you should never tap any high end ribbon or condenser mics. Also I am not tapping hard at all... I mean barely tapping with the input turned up to get a clear signal. (I was also tapping the side of the microphone, not the center). I will make a note on the video to clear this up!

[Tripbag]

@DJZilos, Other than that one minute detail, this is a great tutorial by the way, both for technique and for Ableton specific functions in general - especially for beginners to Live such as myself.

Much appreciate the tutorials!

[ultraduckling14]

pretty nice! maybe next time just mention what hot keys you are using to highlight, duplicate, etc.. next time. you move pretty fast and since i'm still a beginner that sort of stuff loses me. and also. how come you use an audio file for your kick drum instead of a midi kickdrum like the ones that come with the program?

[BeatJockeys]

@ultraduckling14 Sorry, I had the option to show the keys i press on the bottom, but i guess it goes too fast still :) Im not sure what you mean about the midi kickdrums, but midi is information, not a sample or a waveform. Your kick drums will always be in a waveform (audio) format, or coming from an oscillator from a synth instrument that your MIDI will trigger to play. I chose this as just one method of making your own kick :) I use sample libraries for most of my productions :) Thx!

[DJZilos]

@ultraduckling14 Woops. I was logged in from my other account when I replied :) Anyway you get the idea :) Have a great day!

[DJZilos]

@cjdaddy43 It's a program called ScreenFlow for mac. There are others i tried but Screenflow is the simplest and best quality ive found :)

[DJZilos]

I am on live 8, i love it :)

[mistara1]

Bravo man, it's a great technic. Are you with Live 7 or 8?