What's your favourite Think break? What other breaks would like to see me dive into?

@NedRush

Жыл бұрын

Everything off Go Plastic.

@BeatsPacific

Жыл бұрын

Good stuff! The "Loop of '88". A couple of my favourite 2nd gen Think breaks are Heavy D & The Boyz - You Ain't Heard Nuttin' Yet and Kid 'N Play - Do This My Way.

@HumanSynthetics

Жыл бұрын

@@BeatsPacific nice one!! Just checked that Loop of 88 on Spotify... loads of stuff from Simon Harris! Wow thanks what a mention! I'll check those other ones out too. I know you've got bare jungle knowledge and I'm keen to dig into the lesser heard ones - just ping me if you think of anymore. Hope you're good man. :)

@HumanSynthetics

Жыл бұрын

​@@NedRush ahh yeah, I'd have to check whosampled! And some SP stuff in the works for you?? 👀💖

@GolabKitsForTR-8s

Жыл бұрын

Please Show US the tighten up break.

thank god i found this channel. amazing content

@HumanSynthetics

10 ай бұрын

Aww thank you!! Glad it's hitting the spot, it's a joy to share it all

A classic! lovely

@HumanSynthetics

Жыл бұрын

Cheers LDM! Yeah it's so good! Felt like a nice place to start as I'm so familiar with it. Although probably bit off more than I could chew with essentially 4 videos worth of material in one! Thanks :)

Absolutely top quality content

@HumanSynthetics

Жыл бұрын

Nice one Jim! Thanks for the comment.

Amazing video can’t wait to get to chopping

@HumanSynthetics

Жыл бұрын

Big up Jumanji! Yeah this one's a great chopper.

Thank u for the amazing video

@HumanSynthetics

Жыл бұрын

Cheers Callum, pleasure's all mine, glad you've enjoyed!

@HumanSynthetics

Жыл бұрын

Black country massive 🎉 now i know 😊

This is high quality knowledge sharing Alex!

@HumanSynthetics

Жыл бұрын

Cheers Al! Bit of more than I could chew with all 4 but the think playlist in the description has loads more examples of when I've gone to work on the break. Thanks for all your support man!

Thanks for the video. Very interesting!

@HumanSynthetics

10 ай бұрын

Cheers Niels, glad you think so and thanks for the comment

Impressive!

@HumanSynthetics

Жыл бұрын

Cheers David!

Loads of good info here, thanks for another great tutorial!. I have an idea/request... Showing how you approach layering kicks with breaks would be really helpful. Types of kick that work well with types of breaks, bass frequencies, eq, compression, an all that good stuff.

@HumanSynthetics

2 ай бұрын

Thanks so much! This is something that people have brought up before on stream, definitely a good topic for something more in depth if I can get round to it. Most of the time, it's all about the choice of sound for me - I'd rather find sounds that work well together out the box rather than have to sculpt them too much with other effects. That said - I do sometimes love to turn a kick or whatever sound into something completely different using effects! The whole kick-bass conundrum is a constant in any music producer's life haha, I think I've just got really good at knowing when it isn't working and to start again. But yes, I will keep that in mind :) thanks again for the kind words, glad I can help :)

Classic break and excellent vid. Learnt heaps. Can you do Apache next?

@HumanSynthetics

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much! Yeah one of my all time faves, so versatile and a great intro to chopping as it behaves so nicely - good drumming from Jabo Starks (should've credited in the vid). Great suggestion! I'll add it to the list. Apache sounds great time stretched and would be a good one to demo that kind of thing with. Thanks again.

Great video, Alex! There is so much here that I've been coming back to rewatch a bunch. I like your method of processing and resampling your breaks before chopping, as well as how you setup your drum racks. I've always chopped first, processed second, which feels clunky in comparison, so I'm going to have to try this out!

@HumanSynthetics

Жыл бұрын

Cheers Tristan! That's sick. Yeah I discovered that by accident after doing it with an amen. It just gives a much more defined sound as there's no tail from any processing on the chops - the result is like DEAD tight which I love. Sometimes I do both, indeed I'd like to explore what more I can get from doing that. I keep refining how I rack things up, or rather experimenting and adding in things that work to my method. No two breaks are equal though, and every one requires a slightly different approach. Thanks again man.

@NodentityMusic

Жыл бұрын

Yes! I'm trying it on the Amen right now. Actually, I've just recently come back to my music after an extremely long hiatus. So there's a lot that I'm rediscovering as well as learning for the first time. I'm excited to dig deeper and experiment more than I ever used to, and, of course, to soak up all the knowledge I can. If there's one regret I have in life, it's that I didn't spend more time making beats!

Good stuff

@HumanSynthetics

7 ай бұрын

thank you!

@vitamin.surplus

7 ай бұрын

@@HumanSynthetics You're awesome. I made a song inspired by this tutorial!

Great video. My favourite break by far. Would love to see some more breaks and something on layering breaks

@HumanSynthetics

9 ай бұрын

Cheers Treva, mine too for sure. So versatile. Yeah I need to take up the series again, there's been loads of good suggestions for next breaks to have a go at. Layering breaks comes up a lot, definitely a rich topic to dive into. Cheers!

@donnydarko7624

2 ай бұрын

I like to take 2-3 different breaks use one as my main subject align all three of to make sure all the hits lineup because I will so to speak "graft" hits from the other two but making sure to keep the parts of the first break that I specifically chose it for. obviously you need to make sure to volume match each break with each other, but also choosing a say one break that has a massively different character due to say reverb being baked into one but not the other can make it nearly impossible to get them to work together cohesively

I think Funky Technicians - Airtight uses the think break. One of my all time favourite tunes.

@MattyFez

Жыл бұрын

I thought that was Hot Pants + Cold Sweat

@newtype-tv

Жыл бұрын

@@MattyFez could be. I’m sure at the or near the end the break changes to Think. Could be totally wrong though mate.

@HumanSynthetics

Жыл бұрын

Nice one Newtype :)) I'll have a listen to that one. I heard it on a Disney film recently haha 'Spies in Disguise'! Lol

@HumanSynthetics

Жыл бұрын

I'll give it a listen :D

@newtype-tv

Жыл бұрын

@@HumanSynthetics Didn’t know that track was in the sound track.

Another really informative video! Love that you showed both approaches. Have u ever used the plugin st4b? Its a really nice multiband transient shaper, very useful for breaks.

@HumanSynthetics

11 ай бұрын

Hi Jon, thanks so much for that. No I can't say I have - I've been using Re-Shaper a lot recently, from the creative extensions m4l pack and that is pretty good. I'll check it out!

Hey, thanks for the video its so comprehensive and well organized. I've run into an issue with my project, when i get to the 39:00 and adjusting velocities the midi notes dont actually adjust and they all sound the same. I've experimented by pulling all the velocities down to 0 and there is no difference in sound. Any idea what issue it could be?

@HumanSynthetics

8 ай бұрын

Thanks @yohogo9 ! Glad you've enjoyed it. Yeah I think I know what this could be. It sounds like you might have the Velocity Sensitivity in the Sampler set to 0? You'll need this at about 35% for velocity automation in the MIDI clip to work - the higher the Velocity Sensitivity, the great the effect of a given MIDI velocity on the volume of the sound. Hope this solves your problem, let me know if it does ;) thanks again

@yohogo9

8 ай бұрын

@@HumanSynthetics BOOM! problem solved, thank you

@HumanSynthetics

8 ай бұрын

@@yohogo9 sick!! thanks for letting me know - yeah, sometimes it depends on the default settings you have set up in the devices - glad we solved it :D

Been learning so much from you Alex, thank you! Total noob question: What’s the setting in order to play an individual channels clip when triggered? In Whenever I press play on one channels clip it simultaneously plays other clips I have on other channels, so I have to just “solo” the channel (session view, running Ableton 10 max live). Thank you in advance 🙏👊

@HumanSynthetics

Жыл бұрын

Hey 23 that's sick! I'm glad to here my stuff has been helpful. So, it sounds like you might be using a drum rack for chops? You want to go into the in out settings (tiny little io icon bottom left) and that will access the choke groups. Then you want to set all of the midi lanes to the same choke group. That will stop one lane playing when you trigger a new one. Does that help?? Let me know if not.

Just a quick question. Maybe I'm missing something but would it not make more sense to process the breaks after the chopping into sampler? That way you could have more control over the processing in the context of the mix?

@HumanSynthetics

Ай бұрын

Not at all - this is a really great question! So for me, I love the staccato sound you get when you chop a break like the Think hit by hit and shorten the MIDI. I also like to sculpt the envelope for each hit too, sometimes. I've found if I apply significant processing after, it affects how each slice is played back, and can affect the precision of the staccato effect. It's probably really quite minor for a break like the think but for something heavier like the amen, it does make a difference, particularly if you're really slamming things. In terms of the mix, I often do more processing after I've applied this method, but it's usually very subtle. I'd say try both approaches and see which to your ears you prefer more. But this kind of critical thinking is great, and something I try to cultivate at every step myself.

@bangersandmashism

Ай бұрын

@@HumanSynthetics Ahh I get you, makes sense that baked in processing would chop differently to applying it afterwards. Cheers for the response 😄

I was trying to find out what break is used in Dark Stranger Origin Unknown rmx. I think from trying to hunt down that is maybe a 2nd gen think break but not sure how they processed it. Just love that break at the start of the track. Not sure where they sampled from.

@HumanSynthetics

Жыл бұрын

Cheers Jay, love that tune! Listening again it sounds like it could be the Latee break? Maybe with another bit of the original Think in it too? I did a video on the Latee break not too long ago as it's used in Aphex's '54 Cymru Beats' too (you might've seen this already): kzread.infoNq0eG8nDnDk Can anyone else comment further?

@jamesdoyle4383

Жыл бұрын

@Human Synthetics yeah could well be actually mate. Pitched up? The Dark Stranger tune has some kind of high pitched snare or cymbal it sounds like layered on top

@HumanSynthetics

Жыл бұрын

@@jamesdoyle4383 Yeah at the very start?? Sounds like it could be another sample of some sort, like a stab or something. Could be they sampled the chaka chaka (technical term lol) from the Latee and played it on different notes on a keyboard, then again they're timing isn't too different in terms of how the chakas play back. If that makes any sense?!

@jamesdoyle4383

Жыл бұрын

@Human Synthetics yes mate at the start it sounds like a slowed down but high pitch stab of maybe a snare or something.

@jamesdoyle4383

Жыл бұрын

@Human Synthetics do you have a link mate ro the vid you did on the Latee break please 🙏?

We always called this the "ya bastard" loop

@HumanSynthetics

Жыл бұрын

Hahaha yeah JB sounds a bit unhinged at 170. I'll be calling it that from now on.

Might be missing something. But what's the point of different choke groups here? I figured you should just have them all on one choke group in the same rack so you don't have loops stepping on each other.

@HumanSynthetics

Жыл бұрын

Yeah good question - it really depends, with some of the time stretched breaks I like to let them play along underneath without being choked by the main break pattern. Really a personal preference thing depending on what you're trying to achieve, but if I need any one chop to carry on over others i go for this approach.

sounds like sully lol

@HumanSynthetics

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Add a bit of chorus, or really tight delay, like with a very, very short decay and you'll be there!

Think is better than Amen

@HumanSynthetics

Ай бұрын

Fighting talk 😁 but I'm kind of inclined to agree! What about both together??

@ushnicyuvnikof2748

Ай бұрын

@HumanSynthetics I don't think they stack well tbh. Amen is a busy and noisy break with unusual timing, you can chop / rearrange it and tame it with eq or even a multi band envelope shaper, but then it's hardly Amen anymore. Amen over powers most other breaks, it stacks well with super simple breaks like Skull Snaps. Amen is more of a jungle break, they go raw Amen often. Think, Hotpants, Roachclip, Cold Sweat, Sport and so on destroy Amen tbh and all stack with simpler breaks like Synthetic, Impeach, Snaps, barry white and so on.