Tutorial: Beef Up Your Drum Breaks With MPC's Drum Synths
Learn how to make the perfect drum layers in your MPC
In this video I explain how you can use the MPC’s stock drum synth plugins to create custom layers to fatten up your sampled drum breaks. I use a MPC One in the video but this will apply to any of the modern MPC models that have the Drum Synth plugins bundled (One, One+, Live 2, X, X SE).
The MPC is very accommodating when it comes to layering via one-shots, but there are downsides: It's easy to overdo, you can cause phasing and it's time consuming. Instead of auditioning or trying to find the perfect samples to layer your drums with, how about we just skip all that and make our own layer that does exactly what we want, using synthesis that’s built into the MPC?
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