The Best Method For Tuning Drum Samples to Fit Into Your Track!

[@betavirus]

I would have never in a million years thought to use a freq shifter like that. I am excited to try this.

[@MichaelM85x]

Wow the difference between the two is so nice. Great tip I never knew about this trick for percussion.

[@djjuno106]

Superb video i usually tune drums within groove agent,arsenal ..but your way is great for sample loops and i never thought of using a frequency shifter ..ive used pitch shifters but your way is a bit more subtle

[@DashGlitch]

Glad you like it!

[@DaddaPsy]

Frequency shifting drums is a very clever thing to do to get them in key. Not many know this. Kind of you to share it

[@DashGlitch]

Thanks I’m glad you agree 😁🙏

[@dinsfire8489]

SICK! Never thought to use a frequency shifter for this purpose. Thanks for sharing!

[@Pilzhirn]

The Djembe sounds much more cohesive in the track after tuning ( but still not too bad without) Interesting technique, thanks 🙂

[@unfinishedmonkeyrecords]

makes sense, I was always pitching drums and they sounded a bit off indeed!

[@NickFromNetherlands]

Tuning drums is new for me. Using construction kits will have the drum in tune. Have a lot drum samples without the key in the filename.

[@yairkelly7039]

Thanks for all your videos you help me a lot 🙏❤️

[@ASProduction95]

In case anyone is wondering what’s the name of the frequency shifter that he used in the tutorial. It’s called Kilohertz Frequency Shifter and it’s a free VST!

[@DashGlitch]

Indeed, when I made the video it was paid plugin but now it's free! thanks kilohearts :D

[@ASProduction95]

@@DashGlitch Yes! I would grab it right now even if you have a stock plugin from your DAW because their plugins are amazing! And thanks alot for a very informative video! 👍🙏

[@Jimbo386000]

To me it sounds good both ways. As a drummer we don't really tune our drums to fit a certain key, so like, it sounds natural to me either way.

[@DashGlitch]

Yea I played drums for years before getting into production, I get that. But pitch shifting a sample does introduce artefacts, so freq shifting is cleaner and sounds less alien on percussion sounds.

[@Jimbo386000]

@@DashGlitch It does definitely sound great! And that's cool you played

[@sheppo]

Wouldn’t Steinberg’s backbone resynthesis have helped here? Or is the end result very similar?

[@mylogify]

Nice tip!

[@SoundbombSoldier]

You seem to copy the insert (Voxengo Curve EQ) from Channel to Channel without leaving the screen and without copying the Freq Shifter Plug In from the other insert slots. Sooooooooo....how you do that?

[@darrend7386]

nice to know good video man

[@nirguna-rajah]

Thanx a lot Man!!!

[@OscarGonzalez-ls1gf]

GREAT ONE :) !

[@Shane-zo4mg]

Waves torque does this job very well

[@rivagti]

Thanks for these videos! Really like it. Is that UVI World Suite worth it? It's quite expensive...

[@DashGlitch]

I think so, it really has a lot to offer and fills in the gaps of synthesis nicely, especially for Psytrance

[@BappinProductions]

@@DashGlitch especially when you get it for free as an affiliate ;p

[@DashGlitch]

@@BappinProductions I'm not an affiliate, I don't get any kickbacks for sales, I truly would have bought it - like I do a LOT of products that I also recommend on my channel. I'm not biased to companies who offer me their products, and I always do stipulate that If I don't like it, there are no-string-attached. In this case, I wanted UVI World Suite 2, so I contacted them asking for an EDU discount - and they sent me the product.

[@BappinProductions]

@@DashGlitch poor choice of words on my point, I just meant that you got it for free, that's all. Didn't mean to insinuate your opinion would be invalidated as a result, sorry dude!

[@BappinProductions]

@@DashGlitch it was my off an off-hand comment that most things that are free are worth it (to the person that got it for free :D)

[@aleksandrsmasharo5628]

Subscribe to this guy, he might be not best but his work got soul. A lot of inspiration here

[@AGalanKh]

Frequency shifters are not ideal for tuning. They displace each partial by a fixed hertz amount, so, even if you tune the fundamental to a certain note, the rest of the harmonics can end up in inharmonic places. For example, if you have an oscillator that produces three partials at 100, 200, and 300 hertz's, and we use a -20hz frequency shifter, the resulting sound will have three partials in 80, 180, and 280 hertz's, and that's an inharmonic relationship, even if the original sound was perfectly harmonic. Pitch shifters, on the other hand, do keep harmonic relationships, bc they displace partials by relative amounts (semitones, for example, instead of hertz). However, that said, your method worked, the djembes do sound better after frequency shifting them. But I'm guessing that, when this doesn't work, pitch shifting is the only way to go in certain situations.

[@BappinProductions]

Drums are typically inharmonic so it doesn't matter if the relationship between harmonics is compromised. Besides it has it's own character to it and if it works it works :)

[@AGalanKh]

@@BappinProductions Totally agree. I'm just trying to clarify why this method wouldn't work on all material. In this particular case, it worked wonders

[@DashGlitch]

Like I said in the video, it doesn’t work on ALL examples but it’s my go to method when something sounds audibly out of tune WRT percussion. For me it works 9/10 times, but at the end of the day it’s subjective - whether you use it or not is up to you, now you know how it sounds in my context 👌

[@BappinProductions]

@@AGalanKh gotcha and right you are :)

[@MichaelM85x]

Yea nothing is perfect in sample drums. This technique is another gem to add to my memory bank.

[@itwasdexter5074]

Use pro q if you have it coz it has the little piano at the bottom and you can click the note to add a point on an exact key.

[@DashGlitch]

Yea but that involves several clicks per node, takes a bit longer

[@itwasdexter5074]

@@DashGlitch ? Maybe I explained it wrong. It's still 2 clicks but it's on the exact note

[@soundcore183]

What is the advantage for not doing it with the sampler?

[@DashGlitch]

I literally explained it in the video

[@soundcore183]

@@DashGlitch yeah you explained that it destroys transients but you also can leave the original transient with a gate or so and tuning only the body / release part. Frequency shifter still does the timbre change almost. Depends really on the context if you want to leave the original transient.

[@vkas6608]

Didn’t get what he did, can someone explain how he changed the frequency

[@DashGlitch]

I literally showed and explained it, frequency shifter plugin

[@NovemberVIHR]

The dude tunes djembe tones to match song root note applying frequency shifts to djembe

[@sekorsky9671]

Hello! Do you use Pitch shifters for all the percussion?

[@DashGlitch]

Frequency shifters, and no only on the more tonal stuff when it sounds audibly out of tune

[@LoveMeBack]

Without shifting it has more “energie”.

[@TranceElevation]

This video is quite revealing to me actually. After they've been tuned it sounded boring and predictable to me. I do really believe genres like Psy and Goa do benefit from Atonal sounds. To me it sounded better before the tuning.

[@keithlane4705]

bear in mind it's going to get mixed with someone else record at some point, that's a real driving force behind EDM decisions

[@DashGlitch]

Ok :)

[@keithlane4705]

I bet you do this by ear - but useful tutorial if you don't have the skill to do it by ear

[@BappinProductions]

Step 1: Don't bother xD