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Buying a Laptop for Music Production
How Does a Drum Machine Work?
How to Create Music & Get a Record Deal
How to Make Music Beats
How to Make Music on My Computer
How to Make My Music Sound Like the Pros
How to Make the Best Audio Recording on a Computer
How to Make Your Own Music Studio
How to Mix Beats
How to Produce Grime Music
How to Produce Instrumental Music
How to Produce Music
How to Produce Techno Music
How to Write a Hit Song
Salaries of a Music Producer
What Are the Best Computers for Music Recording?
What Does a Music Producer Do?
What Does a Recording Artist Do?
What Does a Synthesizer Sound Like?
What Does It Take to Be a Music Producer?
What Is a Recording Studio Manager?
What Is an Effects Box?
What Is Music Sequencing?
What Is a Music Sampler?
What Is a Synthesizer?
What Is Music Publishing?
Where Do I Find a Beat Machine?
Summary: A drum machine can record and play back the music from different drums, so that they can be sampled and recorded separately. Sync up the drums from a drum machine using time codes with insight from a recording studio engineer in this free video on drum machines.
Brad Wilnslow has worked in the music production industry for more than 10 years. He has worked in the recording studio with many artists, such as Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, Radiohead, DJ...read more
"How does a drum machine work? This is the MPC-2000. Basically I sample things from either the CD player underneath or from record, directly into the machine. Within it you can chop up the samples to get just the parts that you want. Like a kick, snare. In here, basically you just go ahead and press record. It'll give a little metronome counting. It will record what you did and play it back basically in real-time. You play each part separately, kicks, snare, hats, basically as many bars as you want. You can do different measures and it will play them back. You can sync it up using time codes so if you have to record multiple times it'll sync up and keep things lined up perfectly audio wise. I wouldn't go too much further on a drum machine than just the beat. It is a drum machine after all."
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