| Any person with a personal computer can develop | | | | Sampling is another popular method that has helped |
| and make their own drum samples for various | | | | DJs, music producers and beat makers find quality |
| purposes. It is still not such an easy process and the | | | | drum samples for the last 20 years and even earlier |
| learning curve can be quite steep, but once you get | | | | than that. Extracting these sounds from records from |
| the hang of it, you'll be able to make your own unique, | | | | the 60s, 70s, 50s and earlier also is good for locating |
| signature drum samples with ease and precision like a | | | | uncompressed drum samples, as these decades did |
| professional. | | | | not have the loudness war that is evident in every |
| Common tools for the task include audio editors and | | | | chart-entering song of the modern. |
| wave sound compatible sequencers and plugins. There | | | | Synthesizing drum samples is another option for the |
| are free audio editors like Audacity that you can | | | | budding music sample connoisseur. The machines with |
| download at a moment's notice. These types of | | | | this capability also date back many decades, including |
| programs are usually a snap to install, so if you haven't | | | | old Roland and Korg drum groove boxes with |
| used one, don't worry; you'll get it installed within | | | | synthesizer functionality. Usually, a number of |
| seconds in most cases, even if you're not all that | | | | parameters are there to be modified by the user, and |
| comfortable with computers. Editing in a program like | | | | the traditional sound offered by that particular box |
| this, although very powerful and accurate, is not as | | | | usually remains with any changes, generating a nice |
| hard as many make it out to be. There are usually | | | | mix between the structure of that sound and the |
| some simple operations that need to be performed to | | | | special characteristics assigned to it. |
| trim and crop, nothing more! | | | | When it comes to then sculpting your own sounds, you |
| You can also develop your drum samples in programs | | | | can use many processing techniques. Equalization and |
| like Propellerheads' Reason and FL Studio. Simply | | | | compression are two common choices for |
| make the changes you want in the programs using the | | | | professional and amateurs alike. One tip sometimes |
| in-built editors, effects units and reverb before | | | | given by those with experience is to limit the effects to |
| exporting just the channel for that one sound and its | | | | sculpting and not loudness. Changing the tone of a |
| associated effects. Then crop it up if you set the | | | | sound is different from changing its level |
| length to be the whole song, otherwise export just a | | | | indiscriminately. |
| single bar or beat if the sound occupies that amount. | | | | |