(upbeat music)
- When producing music,
it's very important that you come up with your own style,
and your own sound.
One of my favorite ways to do that is by sampling.
Just recently,
scientists have discovered gravitational waves,
and they've given us a sound recording
of two black holes colliding.
It happened about a billion years ago,
and it's a pretty neat sound.
Let's listen to that right now.
(loud echoing pulse)
And that's it at the lower pitch,
and then it's also been pitched up.
And that's the sound of two black holes colliding.
We're going to use that sound to create this beat.
(electronic drum beat)
These drum sounds are all made
with those samples of gravity.
And also a riser sound for transitional.
(electronic drum beat)
So let's take a look at how that's done.
Okay, so I'm going to go inside my browser,
and get a new drum rack.
Put it right here.
And here we see our empty pads.
And I'm going to go to our sample of gravitational waves,
and drop that right inside one of these pads.
There we go, we've got a sampler that is created,
and I'm just going to find a nice peak here,
all right, transient right about there should be good.
And I'm only going to take a small portion of this,
right before the next wave.
And let's just see what that sounds like.
(repetitive pulsing)
Okay, not bad.
I'm going to set this to one shot mode,
so that the sample will play out in its entirety.
I'm also just going to put a fade at the end.
So that that will fade out a little more naturally.
Now, if we want to make this a kick drum sound,
something we're going to want to do is transpose this.
So, I'm going to drop this down,
let's try one octave.
(low drum beat)
Let's even see if we can go a little further.
(low drum beat)
I'm going to go somewhere in the middle,
try it.
(low drum beat)
Think that'll sound pretty good.
So, there we have our kick drum sound.
I'm going to copy this sound,
into another pad,
and to get our snare drum,
I'm just going to raise the pitch now.
(electronic drum beat)
And now we've got a kick drum and a snare drum sound,
just like that.
Next I'd like to create a high hat sound,
so I'm going to copy the snare drum pad
up to this empty cell.
And in order to get a convincing high hat sound,
it's a much shorter sound,
we're going to go inside here
and change the length of this particular sample.
(fast drum beat)
Okay, so we got something nice and short there.
I'm going to again raise the pitch here a bit.
(fast high drum beat)
Just like that.
I'm also going to go inside our pitch envelope
and I'm going to give us a little bit of a pitch drop
so that the sound will start out high and come low.
But it's going to happen really fast,
I'm going to set this to say like 174.
(fast high drum beat)
And you can kind of play with that value,
to get different tones to your high hat.
But I like somewhere around there.
Just like that.
I might even pitch that up just a little bit more.
(fast high drum beat)
So now we've got a kick drum,
a high hat, and a snare drum.
(electronic drum beat)
What high hat would be complete without an open high hat?
So, to create that I'm going to once again
copy that high hat to another track,
and all I'm really going to do
is just change the length of this sample.
(fast electronic beat)
Now we've got, I'm going to make it even longer.
(fast electronic beat)
Now we've got an open high hat.
You can sometimes play around with the warp mode
inside a sampler to get different sounds.
(fast electronic beat)
The tones gives us something
that sounds kind of laser beam like.
And I like that, so I'm going to copy that to another pad.
I'm going to go back to our open high hat
and bring that back to beats.
So now we've got this.
(electronic drum beat)
So with just the sample of gravity,
we've created our own drum kit,
and we can quickly program our own little beat here.
(electronic drum beat)
Throw in our open high hat.
And our little laser beam noise there.
And now we've got a nice unique-sounding drum kit,
that really was impossible up until a few weeks ago
when science discovered the gravitational waves.
So, it's always a great idea
to kind of look to your environment
to find interesting sounds that you can use
to create your own music with it.
And that'll give you your own style and character.
Okay, so we've got our drum sound.
Now we can take this even further,
and we can use this gravitational wave
to create a transitional noise.
(echoing electronic rattling)
So I've got something I've pre-built here.
And we're going to take a look
at how we can make that sound.
I'm going to create a new MIDI track.
And bring in sampler.
Inside sampler, I'm going to drop our gravitational wave.
There it is.
And what I want to do here
is get some of that noise that happens
right after the big pop,
of those two black holes colliding.
So I've limited my loop right here,
I'm going to turn on my loop
and limited my sample range here,
and I'm going to loop this.
So we've got a continuous sound
for however long we hold down the pad.
I've got it to go back and forth,
forwards, then reverse,
because I think that's going to make it
sound a little more fluid.
And I'm also going to just put the crossfade
up a little bit,
to try to avoid as many pops and clicks as we can.
(electronic whirring)
And here's our sound right now.
(electronic whirring)
And okay, so we got something we're working with here.
I'm going to go into our pitch envelope,
turn that on,
and I'm going to raise this really high,
48 steps,
and we're going to turn the decay on for a good,
let's try 19 seconds and see what that's like.
(electronic whirring)
And what that's doing is having our sound
start out really high,
and then come down to the pitch that we've played.
Because of the way sampler works,
when we pitch up a sample,
it's going to play back faster,
which gives us this really fast looping,
and it slowly decreases in speed.
(electronic whirring)
And those can be really nice for transitional sounds.
We could also play around with our pitch envelope,
we could start it out really low,
and maybe play at a higher octave.
(electronic whirring)
And now we've got sort of a taking off sound
rather than a coming down sound.
Personally, I like the coming down sound.
(electronic whirring)
So we're going to stick with that.
So we've got that so far.
I'm going to go into my global under my amplitude envelope,
and just turn the release up nice and high.
So that when I let go of the pad,
it'll still sound.
(electronic whirring)
For a couple seconds.
And you're noticing that we get a pitch change,
which we just can fix by changing our pitch envelope here.
(electronic whirring)
We can even make that go down low.
(electronic whirring)
I like that, that sounds kind of nice.
Now, just to spice this up a little bit,
we'll just add a couple effects,
mainly reverb.
I think this'll shape this out nicely,
turn up that dry wet and the decay time nice and long.
(electronic whirring)
And there you have it,
a nice transitional sound to go along with your drum beat.
So we'll start a beat.
(electronic drum beat)
And we can add in our transitionals.
And again, all these sounds are made
with the sound of two black holes colliding
in outer space,
roughly a billion years ago.
So your imagination is your limit.
Test out different sounds in your environment,
and drop them into a sampler,
and see what you can come up with.