Drum and bass drumming - triggering samples with midi controllers

A setup with 2 x Roland SPD-11's and other assorted pads triggering one-shot samples in an Akai Z4 Sampler. In some examples the percussion layers are a few bars in length and need to be retriggered every cycle. I'm also using my hi-hat pedal to control the filters and other fx parameters.
http://www.myspace.com/danpearsondrums

Category:

Music

Tags:

• dnb
• d&b
• drum
• and
• bass
• drumming
• beats
• breaks
• jungle
• drums
• v-drums
• electronic
• midi
• roland
• spd
• z4

[OctavACoS]

Wow man, this stuff sounds great. Maybe I'm being clueless here but can you tell me specifically what controllers you have and what other equipment is put into it? What are those sweet square ones? I don't know much about electronic drums.

[NeuronDivide]

@OctavACoS The square pad things are Roland SPD-11's, the other drum pads are plugged into it. Then midi out of the SPD's into the Akai.

[OctavACoS]

@NeuronDivide where do you get your samples? im getting an alesis control pad.

[NeuronDivide]

@OctavACoS I mostly use old funk breaks chopped up and layered with one shots.

[xXDARTYxCOVERSXx]

im finding it really hard to produce drums like this

[NeuronDivide]

@xXDARTYxCOVERSXx

It's a combination of using the right samples, layering and processing (eq / compression, etc) and a lot of experimentation and trial and error! Keep at it, the more you work at something, the better you'll get.

[GeNeRJaSoN]

this is real stuff

[bazZzment]

Yesss,

very nice my friend!

[DonnieTheShitworm]

@meatpupet newb

[HalfGermanBeats93]

Thats tech man, nice one :D

[LogicKidroy]

@meatpupet Firstly, learn to spell correctly before slating someone who is further up the evolutionary stage than you will ever be, secondly, why even waste your time slating someone, the guy is a lot more inventive and better than most people watching so you should thank him for putting the effort into uploading this for dicks like you.

[gazzer2kuk]

@meatpupet ah shit man, I looked at your channel but the videos of your amazing drumming/sampling are gone? what happened? oh wait, yeah. there aren't any. prove yourself better before ripping on someone else.