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Let’s Create a Drum Beat! (Part 2/6) - MilkyTracker and Chiptune Tutorial #10

Added 2019-12-02 15:00:02 +0000 UTC

This is the SECOND tutorial of six on creating a drum beat in MilkyTracker. Part 2/6 is dedicated to the kick drum. The full video is about 22mins long. Below are the time stamps, observations, resources, workflow ideas.

Anatomy of a kick drum 0:00
Creating Kick Drum #1 2:28
Generating a pitch dip manually 3:18
Adding volume fades 4:43
Creating Kick Drum #2 5:04
Copying instruments/samples to other instruments/samples 5:44
Creating a sandbox of blank samples 6:24
Assembling samples to create a pitch dip 9:38
Adding noise to the attack 12:19
Adding a faded noise layer 13:06
Creating Kick Drum #3 14:37
Drawing a waveform 15:24
Assembling samples to create a pitch dip 16:25
Adding noise to the attack 18:17
Adding volume fades 18:57
Adding a noise layer 19:30
Listening to MilkyTracker generated kick drums 20:18

It’s helpful to think of a kick drum as being in 2 parts:

1. Attack (7-11ms) – noise and compressed waveforms
2. Pitch Dip

Workflow ideas:

Creating a sample approx. 400ms (about 17000 samples)
Generating sine waves and a pitch dip by dragging the selection window across a sample
Adding volume fades using the sample editor
Adding volume fades using an envelope in the instrument editor
Creating a sandbox of blank samples of different lengths
Adding short bits of noise to the beginning of the sample
Layering a sample of noise to add character