![]() So from this one break beat you have created three different sounding loops, just by tuning the individual drum sounds. As you can hear, tuning up drums like this makes your sounds tighter and brighter. What about tuning up? Play sequence 3 of our project – ‘TUNEUP’ – this uses a third program called ‘ TUNEUP’ with all pads tuned to +04.00. Here I’ve just created a new program called ‘TUNEDOWN’ that already contains all the tuned down pads. You can hear my tuned down version by playing sequence 2 – TUNEDOWN. The slower BPM makes the beat even more grungy, with a real tripped-out feel. Highlight the tempo field and change this from 80.0 to 70.0. Settle on a tuning you like and press MAIN to return to the main sequencer page. Basically the lower you go, the darker and more brooding the beat becomes, although watch out for tuning ‘artefacts’ – this is where massive amounts of tuning produce metallic rings and also highlight existing noise on the original samples. While the sequence is playing, you can continue to drop the tuning in real time to hear the effect this has on the beat. Now press PLAY START on the sequencer and you’ll find that the loop sounds a lot darker and grungy. This will drop the tuning down on all pads together, Now highlight the ‘ Tune’ parameter for layer 1, and drop the tuning down to -04.00 using your jog wheel. Now turn your data wheel several clicks to the left until it reads ‘ MULTI’: The quickest way to tune down all the pads in a program is to cursor over to the left hand side where the pad number is currently displayed: The kick instantly sounds lower, darker and basically more mean! So what happens if we do this to all the sounds in the break? Highlight the ‘Tune’ parameter with your cursor keys and take the tuning down to -04.00 using your jog wheel and preview by pressing pad A4. Select PAD A4 – this has a single kick assigned to it on layer 1. Go to PROGRAM (MODE and pad 6) and select the TUNE program – this contains the drum kit used to make the break in sequence 1. ![]() ![]() Now go to MAIN, sequence 1 and press PLAY START, you’ll hear a 2-bar break. Go to DISK (MODE and pad 3), LOAD (F1), and from the tutorial files, locate the ‘ TUNING & BIT RATE’ sub folder. Tuning Drums With the MPC5000īy tuning down a sample it instantly becomes a lot darker. Adapted from my 400 page MPC5000 tutorial book, ‘ Beat Making on the MPC5000‘. I’ll take you step by step through the process of filtering, tuning and griming up your drum sounds using only an MPC5000. This MPC5000 tutorial looks at some ways in which we can take some average kicks and snares and produce something different within your MPC5000.
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