Weird drums for fun and profit
I was reading this amazing collection of interviews with producers by Martin Yam Møller. One of the questions that he asks is "[what is the] most surprising tip/trick/technique that you’ve discovered about a bit of kit?" In his interview, Hainbach links to one of his videos where he teaches how to use a phaser to generate drums sounds. He uses the click from a Korg SQ-1 to generate amazing sounds by cranking up the resonance in his phaser — you must watch it, it's magical!
I decided to give it a try at home, using the Empress ZOIA as a phaser and delay. Since I had two inputs on the ZOIA, I decided to use a Volca instead of the SQ-1, so I could have drums and melody from a single Volca! I decided to give the Volca FM a, so I brought it out of its box.
I wasn't really happy with the FM sounds, but drums sounds from processing the sync out on the ZOIA turned out super fun! So much that I decided to record 19 loops and make them available for free in a little sample pack. The loops were all recorded by running the Volca FM at 40 BPM, so they are in 80 BPM because the sync runs twice as fast. The samples all have names that should give an idea of how they sound like:
- Alien waltz
- Alien whistle
- Belly laugh
- Conga
- Crazy clock
- Crossing hyperspace
- Drum roll
- Happy bongo
- Leaky kick
- One-two-three
- Robot space force
- Robot v8
- Scratched vinyl
- Space bubbles
- Tap tap tap
- Tuning the radio
- Turn the tape
- Waltzing in the rain
- You're going to damage the speakers
I've released the whole collection as public domain, so you can use them commercially, resell them, use them as your ringtone, or whatever! Just have fun!
19 drum loops @ 80 BPM
Size
39.5 MBFormat
WAV 24 bits 48 kHzLicense
Public domain
- 19 drum loops @ 80 BPM
- Size39.5 MB
- FormatWAV 24 bits 48 kHz
- LicensePublic domain