Dr. Drum’s 12 Pad Drum Machine

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Dr. Drum’s 12 Pad Drum Machine One of the most impressive features on the new beat-making program Dr. Drum is the 12-pad drum machine, and understanding how it works can help you create your ideal drum beat. Dr. Drum features a 16 track sequencer, which can be used with the extensive library of sounds included with the program. If the in-built beats just aren’t right for your track, you can make your own custom ones with the drum machine. The drum machine has 12 pads for you to create beats with. Each drum kit you select loads a new 12 sounds onto the pads, and you can adjust the volume for each independently. The program comes with myriad drum kits to choose from, in styles such as hip hop, house, dubstep and jungle, with several options for each. Yes, I want to make DJ quality tracks today. Click Here To Get Started And Start Making Beats TODAY! These can be accessed through the menu stretching down the left hand side of the page. You can easily load up your own sounds to use if the included kits aren’t enough, with a simple drag and drop interface. Creating your own beats with the drum machine is simple. The majority of the page is taken up by a grid, with rows for each of the 12 pads and columns showing the progression of time. Each column represents a sixteenth of a bar, and the beats and off beats are labelled with numbers and dots, respectively. This means that you can create complex drum beats with up to sixteen hits per bar (which is great for fills) using an intuitive system. To put a beat down, you select the pad you want and place a mark in the relevant row at the desired point within the bar. Yes, I want to make DJ quality tracks today. Click Here To Get Started And Start Making Beats TODAY! You can adjust the tempo easily using the BPM option in the bottom left corner of the screen, and there is a mixer so you can bring out whichever frequencies you want. This allows you to accentuate the highs, lows or mids in your beat, and balance them to your liking. There’s also a pitch slider you can use to make more radical alterations to the sound. As with everything on Dr. Drum, you can export the file as a professional-quality .WAV file, rather than a compressed and therefore degraded MP3.


The drum machine on Dr. Drum allows ultimate creativity. You can make an off-kilter beat in jazz timing or a thumping dubstep backing, all with one tool. Once you’ve made your beat, you incorporate it into tracks using the intuitive sequencer. Unlike many other beat-making programs, you don’t need any special knowledge to work Dr. Drum, only a love for music and a passion for creativity. Yes, I want to make DJ quality tracks today. Click Here To Get Started And Start Making Beats TODAY!


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