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Jamie2	Date: September 30, 2005 @ 6:10 AM ok i need help, i dont know how to make a good key sound to put into my beats, since i cant do this very well i just focus more on the drums, but i need to move on from drums i cant do much more, so any help on this would be appreciated
zskilz	Date: September 30, 2005 @ 8:30 AM OK... some clarification needed here... By "key sound", do you mean a key sound which stands out above your beats, or keys as in musical notes?
Jamie2	Date: October 1, 2005 @ 4:16 AM key sound that stands out above my beats, i cant make anything unique enough top stand out
zskilz	Date: October 4, 2005 @ 4:51 PM No problem. Try unsing something which shouldn't be a drum in the first place. Think of "Insane in the membrane" by cypres hill, how they have that weird horse neigh at the end of every bar. Alternatively, try industrial clunk sounds... Play around with the volume of your drum samples. Try making the key sound much louder. If you can play the same sound in two tracks, offsetting the timing by a couple of millisecconds. This creates a nice 3d effect. Also, you can employ a compressor, which basically will try and keep the track's volume constant... i.e. when you trigger a LOUD sound, everything else will momentarily soften. This can create a nice "Breathing" effect if that is what you want. Avoid over-usage of compressors or limeters if you want a "punchy" beat. Polyrithms (out-of-sync rythms which get back into sync every few bars, or even within a bar) and simplicity are sometimes hard to get right, because you always have to restrain yourself. But can be rewarding, because the beat never seems to drown under itself and there is more space for the key sound to stand out. It can also help to play your key sound only once every 2 or 4 bars. (p.s. a bar is one 4 count section, if you are using a 4/4 time scheme that is, or a 3 count section for 3/4...) Anyway, at the end of the day it doesn't matter what anyone says, just mess around and have fun. Do what sounds right to you.

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