30 sec. of drum and bass

Rather simple, rather repetitive. Trying to figure out a proper drum sound and progression.

http://soundcloud.com/styrbjorn/thirty-second-drum-and-bass

Feedback and criticism is will very much be appreciated.

The roll is way too predictable. Randomise it a bit, just sounds like a 4 bar loop, looped over and over. Bit of dynamic change and it'd be a great beat.

I thought it was great.

What hardware/software did you use?

reminds me of the mid 90s era drum n bass. Thats a good thing.

  On 3/7/2012 at 12:19 AM, chassis said:

The roll is way too predictable. Randomise it a bit, just sounds like a 4 bar loop, looped over and over. Bit of dynamic change and it'd be a great beat.

Right now it is very predictable, yes. A work in progress.

  On 3/7/2012 at 12:57 AM, StephenG said:

What hardware/software did you use?

I wish I could say that it was anything other than pure Ableton Live and beat fuckery and layering, but it's not.

  On 3/7/2012 at 11:59 AM, Hasselbalch said:

  On 3/7/2012 at 12:19 AM, chassis said:

The roll is way too predictable. Randomise it a bit, just sounds like a 4 bar loop, looped over and over. Bit of dynamic change and it'd be a great beat.

 

Right now it is very predictable, yes. A work in progress.

 

 

  On 3/7/2012 at 12:57 AM, StephenG said:

What hardware/software did you use?

 

I wish I could say that it was anything other than pure Ableton Live and beat fuckery and layering, but it's not.

how the heck... in ableton?

know of any good tutorials related to this style of tune? I have ableton but have no idea how to use it like this.

  On 3/7/2012 at 7:27 PM, StephenG said:

 

how the heck... in ableton?

know of any good tutorials related to this style of tune? I have ableton but have no idea how to use it like this.

What exactly seems difficult to achieve in Live? I haven't really watched any tutorials that made the foundation for anything in this track.

  On 3/7/2012 at 8:31 PM, Hasselbalch said:

  On 3/7/2012 at 7:27 PM, StephenG said:

how the heck... in ableton?

know of any good tutorials related to this style of tune? I have ableton but have no idea how to use it like this.

 

What exactly seems difficult to achieve in Live? I haven't really watched any tutorials that made the foundation for anything in this track.

mostly the beat programming. Didn't really think of ableton as being good for making beats, I will have to revisit it and pay more attention. =)

great work