Getting rock drum beats with Fruity

[emomusician]

I have had success writing pop drum beats with fruity, but not having so much luck with the rock stuff.

It seems like the way I have written the tempo of the song is impossible to do in fruity.

I have it set to 4 beats per measure.. but no matter how I do it, I cannot fit the "beat" into that measure. If I jack it up to 5.. its still not right, and if I jack it up to 6. its too much.

maybe these beats are just too complicated for fruity.

 

[guitarboi89]

try putting it to 8 and then doubling the tempo, it will give you double the space .

 

[jaihu]

even going to 16 can help, if you want to put a real swing into the beat.

i find that the crash's(which are KEY for rock drums) usually don't sound very good when using one sample. your options are to get a whole bunch of crash samples and randomize their use... but the other, better option(if you can do it)... is to make your rock drums without cymbals at all (only hihat)... and then use a condenser in front of a bunch of cymbal set ups, put on some headphones and record the crash's off the floor.

if you want to do fast snare work, for fills, or rolling beats... take the snare into the piano roll and vary each hit's volume in a logical manner. i.e. for a long snare roll:

instead of having the snare volumes at

10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10

try something like

10 6 7 9 10 6 8 9 10 5 6 7 10 5 6 8

this will greatly "humanize" the sound of your snare roll