Making Custom Beats from Addictive Drums

It's All About The Rhythm

These days we are so blessed when it comes to recording. Technology has come on so much from the early perceptions of what was possible, so much so, that you can create, with ease, a full album of songs, to a professional level, in the comfort of your very own bedroom.
 Now when it comes to needing drums in your track we can't all squeeze a full sized kit into our small rooms, or possibly we can't afford one, or maybe we simply can't play drums either. No problem this is where virtual drum machine software, like Addictive Drums, comes into its own.

  Now here's the scenario. While Addictive Drums, likes so many others, comes inundated with loads of midi beats to choose from we may find we want to have more flexibility than that. Sometimes you know what beat you want but scrolling through the included samples is lengthy and when you have that idea burning in your head you want to get it down quickly. So how can we make use of it's many included samples but have the freedom to create our own beats? Well what I am about to show may seem a little complicated at first but once you get into the way of it, you'll be creating beats faster than McDonald's creates burgers.

 In the example below I've used Addictive drums but any other package such as EzDrummer, Superior Drums and others can be made use of in the same way. Yes of course there are a million ways to create drum samples, but this is just another way of using the power of Studio One to be more creative and adaptable to your specific needs..