in this tracktion waveform 11 tutorial i'm going to show you how to quickly and easily
create the foundation for your beat using the free built-in 808 style drum sampler plugin
and the step sequencer i'm zane welcome to simple green tech and for this video i'm
actually using tracktion waveform 11 pro but everything i'm going to show you can be done
in tracktion waveform free in the exact same way now let's jump in so first let's have a look
at the free drum plugin that comes with waveform 11 and this is the micro drum
sampler this is actually a fairly powerful but basic drum sampler plugin and you can create your
own kit in here by dragging and dropping samples from a folder kind of like this
and don't worry if your sample isn't cleaned up say you have a little bit of dead space
at the beginning or maybe too much space at the end you can click and drag these bars like this
and that will edit the start point and the end point so now when i fire this
you can see it's changed it you also have velocity controls here so you can control the velocity of
the hit you have pan controls and volume controls and you see this abcd down here if you click those
it opens up even more pages for you to add samples to so you can create huge drum kits or have a lot
of sounds that you can fire off from this one instance of micro drum sampler and don't worry
if you don't have any sounds of your own yet it comes with a couple of kits
and these are actually decent you get the micro 909 and this is a 909 drum kit sounds pretty good
and then you also get the 808 kit sounds great for an 808 and both of these are quality kits that
you can use in your tracks and make some great beats with them and that's what we're going to
look at now we're going to create a beat using the 808 kit in the traction micro drum sampler
plus we'll use the step sequencer to create that beat and this is going to allow us to
quickly create the foundation of our beat we already have our micro drum sampler loaded up
so now let's look at these markers here and i'm going to set it for 8 bars
so i have the start here the end there and that's eight bars in between
now let's click on this red plus sign here and we'll click and drag it down into here then let go
and we want to insert new step clip you can see in the first bar here
we can start creating our beat so let's do that we'll just create a simple beat
and you can see the names of the drums over here which is very nice so kick then we'll go with
snare alright so that's a very basic beat let's listen to how it
sounds and one of the cool things is you can see that it's copied everything i did in this first
bar has copied it to all eight bars so that's how we can quickly create our beat but what you might
want to do is take this back by one bar like this now we'll bring down another step clip in here
insert new step clip we're going to reduce the size to just one bar at the end here
and we're just going to create a variation of that beat that we just made
so now i'm actually just going to put this variation on the fourth so i don't bore you
with playing the same thing over and over and then we'll listen to how it sounds all together
okay that's pretty cool and that was super quick to come up with this beat
now what you might want to do eventually is turn this into a midi file so we'll go down here
and we'll go to render to midi clip
now you can see we have our midi clip here it's actually created two midi clips because we had
two step sequencer clips and we can easily double click on this now we can go in and edit this as
midi if we wanted to and now all you need to do is bring in an instrument and if you don't have any
luckily waveform free comes with a pretty decent instrument as well and that's this for ask so you
could come up with some bass sounds with that and quickly create your beat now if you want even more
tracktion waveform tutorials click up here or click down here to see what youtube recommends if you
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thank you so much for watching for simple green tech i'm zane keep creating and we'll talk soon