Making Techno with the Drumbrute Impact

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  • čas přidán 22. 08. 2024
  • I'm in a weird musical limbo right now and couldn't get inspired this week to make a regular music video, so I'm demonstrating the workflow of making techno with the Drumbrute Impact from Arturia while walking through my process.
    I added compression and reverb on the Impact.
    In the pursuit of branching out more, let me know if you enjoyed this type of content, if I should just stick to uploading music, or any other suggestions.
    This was totally improvised with no idea how it would turn out going in. Therefor, at times I can be anything but tactful, so if you need me to break something down further I'd be glad to.
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Komentáře • 53

  • @DJDrDerek
    @DJDrDerek Před 3 měsíci +3

    the breakdown trick is siiiick

  • @jammingpositivevibration
    @jammingpositivevibration Před 3 lety +7

    Drumbrute so easy to play, love it

  • @gelatinous6915
    @gelatinous6915 Před 3 lety +5

    You definitely make this thing sound filthy. It doesn't always sound that great but in this context it slaps

  • @mitchminimal6942
    @mitchminimal6942 Před 9 měsíci +2

    Great job! This is very helpful.

  • @Dongleboob
    @Dongleboob Před 3 lety +10

    Nice!
    I love watching your jams, but this video was really insightful.
    I would definitely watch more tutorial type videos by you.
    Hell, I might even have to get me Drumbrute!

    • @RickHowell
      @RickHowell  Před 3 lety +1

      Thank you!
      And be certain you like the sound of the Drumbrute before buying it. It's a great performance machine but it has a very acute set of sounds

    • @Dongleboob
      @Dongleboob Před 3 lety +1

      @@RickHowell I actually got one for a fair price off eBay. I am loving it. I know what you mean about the sounds but I like it. It's not another Roland wannabe! I definitely got its own vibe.

  • @helmski
    @helmski Před 3 lety +5

    Thank you for the tutorial! Very helpful in adding the tweaks to change up your drum track. Accents are crucial, color is spicy. I have to work on random, swing and other techniques to humanize my beats.

  • @isleofskye8073
    @isleofskye8073 Před 10 měsíci +1

    Love the syncopation

  • @lucen8291
    @lucen8291 Před 3 lety +4

    Please do more of these explaining vids 👍🏻👍🏻

  • @mikedegrazia
    @mikedegrazia Před 3 lety +4

    This is awesome man im just perusing drumbrute vids and stumbled across your channel...glad i did its nice...

  • @waistlineinc
    @waistlineinc Před 3 lety +3

    Loved this!!!

  • @chrisb8745
    @chrisb8745 Před rokem +1

    Awesome tutorial... thanks 🙏

  • @getitoffyourchest4769
    @getitoffyourchest4769 Před 10 měsíci

    LOVE THE BRUTE … The beatstep is cool too .. great tutorial.. thanks 🙏

  • @blah163
    @blah163 Před 3 měsíci

    This helped me get started quickly with the DBI. Thanks!

  • @nrnjr
    @nrnjr Před 5 měsíci

    Amazing video!! So inspirational, jamming with my DB impact this afternoon ❤

  • @smalltown4855
    @smalltown4855 Před rokem +4

    Im given to understand that these drummbrute impacts are actually made from one giant rice cake and inside it is filled with little brown pellets stolen from a farmers duck.

    • @RickHowell
      @RickHowell  Před rokem

      Yeah, now that you've put it that way, i guess it does make sense 🤔

    • @mikedegrazia
      @mikedegrazia Před 5 měsíci

      Thats why its sooo heavy... 🤔

  • @robguitarwizard
    @robguitarwizard Před 10 měsíci

    that's wicked man! great tutorial!
    Inspiring!

  • @E4RLIES
    @E4RLIES Před 5 měsíci

    Loving your creativity ❤😎
    I just re-bought one as I totally regretted selling it!! 😊

  • @mschreib.TheGet
    @mschreib.TheGet Před 6 měsíci

    That was killer 👍🏼

  • @transmutationdotse
    @transmutationdotse Před 11 měsíci

    Kool man!

  • @ld5731
    @ld5731 Před 6 měsíci

    Awesome + easy to follow tysm!!

  • @hektorlorenzo8373
    @hektorlorenzo8373 Před 2 lety +2

    Thanks for that instructional video. I really dig your BD Sounds here. (Should have bought the Impact instead of the generic Drumbrute. Oh well. :-)) Still I do have my qualms about the hat sounds, especially the OHs of the Brutes. You certainly make it work though. The claps, bells, snares do have a lot of potential for their special kind of dirt.

  • @excitationofstereocilia2103
    @excitationofstereocilia2103 Před 11 měsíci

    That bong reminds me of dancing in Vegas 95

  • @tylergates4075
    @tylergates4075 Před 4 měsíci

    Great job making this sound inspiring. Lot of demos on yt make this machine sound uninteresting.

  • @tehnofonaieraksti
    @tehnofonaieraksti Před 11 měsíci

    nice

  • @lucen8291
    @lucen8291 Před 3 lety

    This video is so cool bro

  • @ecosensyncro
    @ecosensyncro Před 7 měsíci

    genial

  • @ImakIlaha
    @ImakIlaha Před rokem

    top!!!

  • @user-uh5uo9np6n
    @user-uh5uo9np6n Před 3 lety +4

    Awesome loop man!
    In my opinion analog drums need mostly in techno. Commercial EDM producers use vst and samples. If you're making a drum machine, think about techno producers and techno musicians right away!

  • @wtmort
    @wtmort Před rokem

    Really cool and helpful! Thanks, mate.
    Would be cool if you consider doing something similar to neutron

    • @RickHowell
      @RickHowell  Před rokem +1

      It's definitely on the agenda, I'll get around to it one of these days haha

  • @theblowupdollsmusic
    @theblowupdollsmusic Před rokem +1

    That reverb on the kit is perfect to set the mood. What processing is on the master in your DAW?

    • @RickHowell
      @RickHowell  Před rokem +1

      I always run my material through Maximus in FL Studio. It's a great multiband mangler

  • @psymariana
    @psymariana Před rokem

    🤘

  • @happylittlesynth
    @happylittlesynth Před 2 lety +1

    What was your comp ratio ? do you have a go-to default setting ? like 4:1 , 10ms attack, etc ?

    • @happylittlesynth
      @happylittlesynth Před 2 lety

      PS ... sick pattern! Perfect use of the FM

    • @RickHowell
      @RickHowell  Před 2 lety +1

      Recording hardware is really finnicky, so I usually just start with fresh compression settings every time.
      That being said, I do have a general workflow of using a multiband RMS compressor (usually with a pretty high ratio), and send that into a final peak compressor with lighter settings to level everything to zero dB

  • @luposlip
    @luposlip Před 3 lety

    Having the "exact" same setup as you by coincidence (DBI, MB2S, Neutron and s few other EuroRack stuff) I really like to see what you can get out of it (you've played with the setup for longer than I). Could you make similar vids featuring the MB2S and the Neutron?

    • @RickHowell
      @RickHowell  Před 3 lety +1

      I'll definitely talk more eurorack stuff in the future!

  • @excitationofstereocilia2103
    @excitationofstereocilia2103 Před 11 měsíci

    You really took the intimidation out of this but are those sounds already in the machine if I buy one?

    • @RickHowell
      @RickHowell  Před 11 měsíci

      Yep! The Drumbrute has an analog drum engine. No sampling or anything.

  • @still_not_batman9170
    @still_not_batman9170 Před 2 lety

    Are you adding reverb and compression to get these sounds? Pretty sure this isn't coming straight from the DBI, right?

    • @RickHowell
      @RickHowell  Před 2 lety

      Yep! The only sound source is the DBI, but I think reverb and compression are important ingredients to making techno so I included them

    • @still_not_batman9170
      @still_not_batman9170 Před 2 lety

      @@RickHowell Added in your DAW? Can you split the tracks and effect them separately when going in via USB? Love this video BTW. Straight into some really good content, no messing around, no lame chatter. Please do some more!

    • @RickHowell
      @RickHowell  Před 2 lety +1

      ​@@still_not_batman9170 For me, I only have two audio inputs on my audio to digital converter. I'm using one to record my voice, and the other to record the DBI. Therefor, there's no way I could split the tracks separately. In the Drumbrute techno video I made a few weeks ago, I split off the FM Drum from the rest of the mix if you want an example of that.
      If I had more inputs available I would love to be able to process each channel individually.

  • @danielalinares594
    @danielalinares594 Před 2 lety

    Super cool! Help me a lot to use the Drumbrute! Somebody here could help me to connect it to the Keystep Pro? Please 🙏

    • @RickHowell
      @RickHowell  Před 2 lety

      Thanks!
      While I don't have the keystep pro, I do have the regular keystep, and that one has a clock in / out that you can patch to the DBI using a 3.5mm cable