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making sample based music in Drambo?
Interested in messing around making some sampled based Burial style music on my ipad with Drambo. How would you go about this? Is it possible to easily do this in Drambo practically speaking? Or is Drambo better for midi type arrangements. Just curious really. Thanks folk!
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Drambo can do samples just as well as anything, no time stretch though. Actually it’s easier than building a modular synth patch with a bunch of stuff on each track, instead just load the sampler of choice (there’s 2), load your sample and get going. So yeah it’s easy, doable, no problems really unless you absolutely need real time time stretching.
And in that case, Drambo hosting Koala is a nice combo from what I've heard. Gotta try it myself
Not exactly a step by step tutorial, but echo posted today an overview of how he setup drambo for a track.
Hope it inspires you @Nasatyuana
I just checked out Burial and it sounds like Drambo would fit the bill nicely. To my ears burial sounds like MIDI arranging samples anyway, not like loose and wonky beats. Drambo should be 👍 As to how to go about doing it? I’ve only began to put in the serious effort of learning Drambo a few weeks ago, but I can tell you that I’m discovering that there is more than one way to fillet a fish inside Drambo. I wish I learned it sooner. The reason being, is that reading manuals has always been my preferred method of learning, not videos. But the video series from Ben and SFM are really conducive to learning something like Drambo. Honestly, after only the first few videos things really start to come together.
But it’s best to know Drambo and make it your own while also borrowing, whether that’d be some of the many cool instrument racks people are sharing on Patch Storage, such as the One Knob Sampler, or being inspired from elements of Echoopera’s video above.
Drambo’s Flexi Sampler is awesome for actually being able to sample. You can route any other track or tracks to it, or external in. And it has different sampling options. Signal Threshold, and you can sample perfectly cut bars without having to trim out crop. You can slice. Plus the combination of automation and or graphic shapers.
Once you learn Drambo even just a little but in a broad sense: the editors and steps and recording and connecting modules—sampling and fleshing out arrangements become fast, much like using Koala.
As about time stretching: I would suggest that this one works quite well.
https://patchstorage.com/slicer-with-time-stretch/
In case you haven’t seen it, this popped up on my TikTok recently.
Definitely doable in Koala. Also never knew the backing was from the metal gear solid intro.
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My bad. This sounds way different from the Burial that I discovered. Sounds like a different artist entirely. I’ll just exit out the back.
Burial famous for using soundforge and arranging audio files off grid.
Yeah, maybe not the best music type to try with Drambo!
Not hard to do in Drambo.
Yeah I mean you can always cut the samples a certain way and play without quantize. Track limit might be an issue I dunno
Just load your samples into a Taktful in Drambo and jam away:
It’s like having an 8 Track Digitakt on each Drambo track 😉
I've just seen the video, thanks @gregsmith!
Indeed it's quite a good case of using Drambo to get these results quickly:
You'd be able to play on the MIDI keyboard what's shown in the video or record a sequence...
As for Drambo's track limit, this is no more (@db909).
Make sure you're using the latest Appstore version.
@Nasatyuana, I've just discovered Burial (on Spotify) with this thread ; thanks, I love his music!
I don't know if Drambo would be the best place to produce this style, BUT I know that you will definitely need UA's bundle ! 😅
This is over 15 years old now tbf - it’s the track that comes to mind when I think of burial. I haven’t listened to any recent stuff.
If it’s the ambient side of burial, you might like my tape looper thing. It’s nothing very complicated but it’s handy for textures and drones.
https://patchstorage.com/meander-loop-six-tape-machine/
I only discovered him in the last week or so myself, was blown away by how expressive his music was.
Drambo is an absolute playground for making sample based music in. Flexi (the main sampler module), a few processors, with some p-locks does what a lot of other samplers can’t. And you can make your own sampler instruments to do the things you want it to do.
Super slow granular time stretch : https://patchstorage.com/glacial-sampler-time-stretch-texture-sampler/
SP1200 fader style workflow. (Set all graphic shapers to bar/grid snap) https://patchstorage.com/sp-flexi-2-0/ Will do video on this one soon
Granular looper : https://patchstorage.com/memory-backwards-looper/
You got any advice on getting samplers INTO drambo? Can you sample youtube from within drambo at all?
I typically will sample from YouTube or Spotify by doing a screen recording. There are/were auv3s that allow you to connect to YouTube or internet browsers to sample in-app.