Mastering the Amen Break: Advanced Sampling Techniques in Bitwig
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- Опубликовано: 8 авг 2024
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Another deep dive into the iconic Amen break, where I transform this classic drum loop into something uniquely using Bitwig Studio. Whether you're a seasoned producer or a newcomer eager to learn advanced sampling techniques, follow me on my path where it is all about mastering drumloops in Bitwig.
Topics:
Time Stretching: Fine-tune the tempo without losing quality.
Slicing to MIDI: Break the sample into playable MIDI notes for dynamic arrangements.
EQ and Preamp-Distortion Processing: Sculpt the tone and add grit to your sounds.
The Grid Device: Introduce randomization to infuse creativity and unpredictability into your tracks.
I'll guide you step-by-step, ensuring you can follow along at your own pace and apply these techniques in your music production. By the end of this tutorial, you'll not only master the art of manipulating the Amen break but also gain comprehensive insights into making your samples stand out.
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00:00 Intro & Thoughts on Bitwig vs Ableton Live
01:54 Importing the Amen-Break sample
04:40 Time Stretch the drumloop
08:29 Slice and Bounce to Midi Drum Machine
14:14 My customized Swiss Army Knife-Insert Bus Chain
17:38 The Grid for Abem Break Junglism - random sample chopping
20:31 Finishing the production 
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Good to see you in Bitwig! :) When you slice to drum machine you'll need to use 'copy value to all layers' to set the same value across all samplers. I'm not sure if that works if you were to assign a macro knob to the value, but if you want a single release value across all samples you could slice to multi-sample instead and then you have one sampler with the drums spread across the keyboard. Oh and the 'slice' mode when stretching drum breaks is good too, it gives you options for tail (ping-pong, granular or none) so you can adjust the length of each slice.
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What a great video Marc. Nice playing with the Amens!
Probably other people will complain at this, but what I do is not use the drum machine and instead slice to multisample. It might not be the purists way to do it, but it means you only have one sampler to deal with for adjusting your release with the note pressure or whatever, rather than editing a bunch of them.
The downside is you don't get the nice names in the piano roll, but I'm not sure they mean much when slicing up Amens anyway.
One of the main reasons I haven't switched from Live is the fact that Bitwig still doesn't have anything on the same level as M4L.
I’m really curious and would like to follow up, what are you doing with M4L that The Grid cannot provide? Since recording my video, I also have found 2-3 quirks I have to address
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Looking forward to your thoughts on the move to Bitwig. I tend to use the same workflow as you - timestretch and pitch shift the Amen as an audio clip, cue it up then slice to Drum Machine. One of the great things about Drum Machine for slices is that you should be able to right click any part of the sampler and apply the same changes to all Samplers in the same Drum Machine - I use this for microtuning the pitch quite a bit. This should overcome the issue you had in the first half of the video.
I dont think you can change the release of all cells in a drum rack simultaneously :(
Slice mode in the sampler would be very much welcome.
I think the best plugin for this is Vice by New Sonic Arts
The automatic tempo & key correction you are talking about is, as far as I know, proprietary to Ableton Live. They call it the Warp Engine and is kind of what makes Ableton the best.
I'm a bitwig user. I have Serato Sample and Loopmix ... makes life much easier. I think chopping in bitwig is a bit weak.
Serato is great with bitwig
Ralf Rangnicks let him self go.
Don’t touch it, just cut it up at its original tempo. U loose all the goodness stretching it and moving it around. Then raise the tempo to 170 and of u go with all hits ready.
Would this be a better method for somebody who is new to producing jungle music? I’m struggling, sometimes to get my brakes running at the proper tempo. I’m usually pitching them so that they loop across four bars sometimes even one bar. Is it better to just chop up and then slice to a midi multi sample?