Topic: How do you make your drums,kick and hi hat sound better with your sample?

[The clane]

How do you make your drums,kick and hi hat sound better with your sample?My drums, kick and hi hat sound too choppy,despite the fact that they were taken directly from other records,with no effects or anything added.I cant afford mix engineers,so I was wondering are there any effects that you guys use or what do you guys do to make drums,kicks and hi-hats mesh better or sound better with your sample?

[Dv2]

Once again, try Moe-Ronic VSTs. They have a VST called SoundBombastor, simply put all your sounds together in a group channel and put SoundBombastor on it. This will instantly make your loop sound much better. If you put Moe-Ronic SampleMerger on top of that, it will make this enhanced sound fit even better with YOUR sample.

Cheers

[mr. angstrom]

dont mind him.

by "choppy", i assume you mean they end suddenly. this is the case alot of the time when you sample from full tracks, or even loops. if you are sampling from full tracks, i would suggest you stop doing that. there is too much going on in a completed song to just sample the drums. most of the time anyway. unless the drums play by themselves for a while. it is easier just to sample from loops. there are drum loops included in fl, and you can download plenty of loops from the internet. i reccomend freesoundproject.com, but you can find them in so many other places.

one thing that will help you sample your hits more cleanly is to load your loops into slice x, a vst included with fl. just load a loop into slice x and it will chop it for you. it does a good job most of the time. you can also move the slice markers yourself if it goofs up. try slice x and get back to me.

[The clane]

DV2 where's the Moe-ronic vst?Is it in the presets?The playlist?Come on,I can't find it.LMAO.Mr. angstrom thanks a lot.In Slice x I can get to exactly the part of a song I want to chop up.Before I was chopping the loops in edison,and it wouldnt always get it to where the loop would start where I wanted it to.And the sounds do sound cleaner and clearer.DV2,you should want to help out,rather than just make fun.I do know a lot about music production,before I was making beats on a boss sp-505,a drum macine/sampler.Im just new to fl studio.I felt like I was far ahead enough in my music production knowledge that I could come to this forum and ask questions,and once I got the basics down I would be okay from there.You wanna make all these jokes and be all rude that really doesn't accomplish much.I think what liketwlight said about me learning in an interactive way was right.

[Dv2]

Well, I didn*t mean to attack you personally, so I apologize. I always try to be helpful, but to be honest, your questions are so twisted that I don*t even know where to begin explaining. They show that you don*t seem to have any clue about FL Studio or principles of using DAWs, regardless of your "knowledge about music production". I really don*t say this to put you down, I*m only trying to offer you an outsider*s perspective. Everyone of your topics so far indicated to me that you must be either a troll or a guy without a clue, which doesn*t motivate me to type out long descriptions of things that have already been written down 10000000x times.

When you asked for a way to reverse samples, you didn*t have to start a topic here, waiting hours or days for people to reply. You could have had the perfect answer, explained in a nice youtube video within 30 seconds. Music production is not rocket science, but still, there*s so much to know that you will probably never stop learning. So help yourself and learn what you can as quickly as you can. Then come back with some more interesting questions. I*ve read for about one year every day before I even registered here. We are a community of people trying to have fun and to occasionally learn from each other, not 5-6 experts who explain everything for people who just won*t read the manual or look for information themselves. 

[outstretchedarm]

@OP: for hip hop production, one of the oldest tricks in the book is to put all the sounds in the same reverb space.


for simple beat: after sending all drum sounds and sample clips to their respective channels, put a fruity reverb on the master channel.  just a little.  it'll make your drum hits, which probably came from different records, sound like they are being played in the same "studio"

a good example is a chopped sample beat I made a few years ago, "confunktion"