Making Music In Bitwig: Mastering Drums

Sound Designing, Programming, Layering and Mixing Drums in Bitwig Studio

What you'll learn

Deepen your Bitwig Knowledge

Improve your Mixing Skills

Learn Drum Sound Design

Record & Create Unique Percussion

Requirements

Basic Bitwig Knowledge recommended

Description

Welcome to my big course on drums, from sound design, over composition & texturing to mixing, this is my grand tour of different production techniques you can use to create better drum loops.We'll be synthesizing kicks in the grid, talking about the theory and fundamental characteristics of snare drums, synthesizing them in phase 4 and then layering & processing them,we'll be writing with hihat samples, synthesizing our own hihats with convolution and unison in the grid & then using modulators to humanize them,we'll be recording our own percussions with household objects, synthesizing unique percussion loops and then sequencing them using the multi-sampling capabilities of sampler & audio editingand lastly we'll write a proper drumloop, use bitwigs group clips system to efficiently write variations and fills, add risers and sfx to our drums and mixing them to make them sound great together.This course does expect some previous knowledge about Bitwig, its modulators, arrangement view etc, but by no means does it require you to be an expert already.If you're completely new to Bitwig Studio, i would recommend taking my course on the Basics first tho. You can also try to follow this in another DAW, but that'll be a bit more challenging because you'll need to know it well enough to translate what I show you into that DAWs tools. It can be done, but it's gonna take some extra thinking on your end. So yeah, i hope to see you in the course, there are a lot of fun techniques i have to show to you!

Overview

Section 1: Kick and Snare

Lecture 1 Making Kicks in the Grid

Lecture 2 The Anatomy of a Snare Drum

Lecture 3 Synthesizing Snares with Phase 4

Lecture 4 Layering Snares

Lecture 5 Processing Snares

Section 2: Hihats

Lecture 6 The easy way

Lecture 7 Complex Hihat Patterns with Noise and Convolution

Lecture 8 Fully Synthesizing Hi-Hats using E-hat or the Grid

Lecture 9 Humanizing Hihats with Modulation & Layering

Section 3: Percussion

Lecture 10 Recording your own Percs

Lecture 11 Creating Percussion Mudpies

Lecture 12 Sequencing Hits with Multisampling

Lecture 13 Quantizing, Chopping & Arranging Percussion Mudpies

Section 4: Programming & Mixing

Lecture 14 Writing a Drumloop

Lecture 15 A Quick Way to get Variations

Lecture 16 Cleaning up & adding texture to the drumloop

Lecture 17 Mixing a Drumloop

Bitwig Users and beyond that want to learn more about Drums