Making Techno with the Drumbrute Impact

I'm in a weird musical limbo right now and couldn't get inspired this week to make a regular music video, so I'm demonstrating the workflow of making techno with the Drumbrute Impact from Arturia while walking through my process.
I added compression and reverb on the Impact.
In the pursuit of branching out more, let me know if you enjoyed this type of content, if I should just stick to uploading music, or any other suggestions.
This was totally improvised with no idea how it would turn out going in. Therefor, at times I can be anything but tactful, so if you need me to break something down further I'd be glad to.
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[@DJDrDerek]

the breakdown trick is siiiick

[@jammingpositivevibration]

Drumbrute so easy to play, love it

[@gelatinous6915]

You definitely make this thing sound filthy. It doesn't always sound that great but in this context it slaps

[@mikedegrazia]

This is awesome man im just perusing drumbrute vids and stumbled across your channel...glad i did its nice...

[@getitoffyourchest4769]

LOVE THE BRUTE … The beatstep is cool too .. great tutorial.. thanks 🙏

[@mitchminimal6942]

Great job! This is very helpful.

[@robguitarwizard]

that's wicked man! great tutorial! Inspiring!

[@helmski]

Thank you for the tutorial! Very helpful in adding the tweaks to change up your drum track. Accents are crucial, color is spicy. I have to work on random, swing and other techniques to humanize my beats.

[@chrisb8745]

Awesome tutorial... thanks 🙏

[@isleofskye8073]

Love the syncopation

[@nrnjr]

Amazing video!! So inspirational, jamming with my DB impact this afternoon ❤

[@mschreib.TheGet]

That was killer 👍🏼

[@blah163]

This helped me get started quickly with the DBI. Thanks!

[@Dongleboob]

Nice! I love watching your jams, but this video was really insightful. I would definitely watch more tutorial type videos by you. Hell, I might even have to get me Drumbrute!

[@RickHowell]

Thank you! And be certain you like the sound of the Drumbrute before buying it. It's a great performance machine but it has a very acute set of sounds

[@Dongleboob]

@@RickHowell I actually got one for a fair price off eBay. I am loving it. I know what you mean about the sounds but I like it. It's not another Roland wannabe! I definitely got its own vibe.

[@lucen8291]

This video is so cool bro

[@waistlineinc]

Loved this!!!

[@RickHowell]

Thanks man!

[@ld5731]

Awesome + easy to follow tysm!!

[@transmutationdotse]

Kool man!

[@lucen8291]

Please do more of these explaining vids 👍🏻👍🏻

[@RickHowell]

For sure!

[@E4RLIES]

Loving your creativity ❤😎 I just re-bought one as I totally regretted selling it!! 😊

[@hektorlorenzo8373]

Thanks for that instructional video. I really dig your BD Sounds here. (Should have bought the Impact instead of the generic Drumbrute. Oh well. :-)) Still I do have my qualms about the hat sounds, especially the OHs of the Brutes. You certainly make it work though. The claps, bells, snares do have a lot of potential for their special kind of dirt.

[@ImakIlaha]

top!!!

[@tehnofonaieraksti]

nice

[@excitationofstereocilia2103]

That bong reminds me of dancing in Vegas 95

[@ecosensyncro]

genial

[@smalltown4855]

Im given to understand that these drummbrute impacts are actually made from one giant rice cake and inside it is filled with little brown pellets stolen from a farmers duck.

[@RickHowell]

Yeah, now that you've put it that way, i guess it does make sense 🤔

[@mikedegrazia]

Thats why its sooo heavy... 🤔

[@psymariana]

🤘

[@wtmort]

Really cool and helpful! Thanks, mate. Would be cool if you consider doing something similar to neutron

[@RickHowell]

It's definitely on the agenda, I'll get around to it one of these days haha

[@tylergates4075]

Great job making this sound inspiring. Lot of demos on yt make this machine sound uninteresting.

[@luposlip]

Having the "exact" same setup as you by coincidence (DBI, MB2S, Neutron and s few other EuroRack stuff) I really like to see what you can get out of it (you've played with the setup for longer than I). Could you make similar vids featuring the MB2S and the Neutron?

[@RickHowell]

I'll definitely talk more eurorack stuff in the future!

[@theblowupdollsmusic]

That reverb on the kit is perfect to set the mood. What processing is on the master in your DAW?

[@RickHowell]

I always run my material through Maximus in FL Studio. It's a great multiband mangler

[@happylittlesynth]

What was your comp ratio ? do you have a go-to default setting ? like 4:1 , 10ms attack, etc ?

[@happylittlesynth]

PS ... sick pattern! Perfect use of the FM

[@RickHowell]

Recording hardware is really finnicky, so I usually just start with fresh compression settings every time. That being said, I do have a general workflow of using a multiband RMS compressor (usually with a pretty high ratio), and send that into a final peak compressor with lighter settings to level everything to zero dB

[@excitationofstereocilia2103]

You really took the intimidation out of this but are those sounds already in the machine if I buy one?

[@RickHowell]

Yep! The Drumbrute has an analog drum engine. No sampling or anything.

[@user-uh5uo9np6n]

Awesome loop man! In my opinion analog drums need mostly in techno. Commercial EDM producers use vst and samples. If you're making a drum machine, think about techno producers and techno musicians right away!

[@still_not_batman9170]

Are you adding reverb and compression to get these sounds? Pretty sure this isn't coming straight from the DBI, right?

[@RickHowell]

Yep! The only sound source is the DBI, but I think reverb and compression are important ingredients to making techno so I included them

[@still_not_batman9170]

@@RickHowell Added in your DAW? Can you split the tracks and effect them separately when going in via USB? Love this video BTW. Straight into some really good content, no messing around, no lame chatter. Please do some more!

[@RickHowell]

​@@still_not_batman9170 For me, I only have two audio inputs on my audio to digital converter. I'm using one to record my voice, and the other to record the DBI. Therefor, there's no way I could split the tracks separately. In the Drumbrute techno video I made a few weeks ago, I split off the FM Drum from the rest of the mix if you want an example of that. If I had more inputs available I would love to be able to process each channel individually.

[@danielalinares594]

Super cool! Help me a lot to use the Drumbrute! Somebody here could help me to connect it to the Keystep Pro? Please 🙏

[@RickHowell]

Thanks! While I don't have the keystep pro, I do have the regular keystep, and that one has a clock in / out that you can patch to the DBI using a 3.5mm cable