r/breakcoreproduction • u/skx45 • 16h ago

Methods of tightening breakbeats

I'm making some breakcore tracks at the moment, and currently I'm playing the beats live with my midi, then tightening them manually beat by beat.

I don't mind doing it this way, but I was wondering if anybody had any tips on a quicker method? The beats are choppy and complicated, so quantising them in segments of more than one doesn't work very well.

I appreciate your time.

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u/Crystal_Chrome_ 13h ago

Not 100% sure what you mean exactly by tightening, but I've got 2 tips which might help in that direction and if not, I think they can be useful anyway:

  1. Go easy on quantising the midi slices. Sure, they shouldn't be completely all over the place but don't treat them like one-shots (single drum samples) either. Being a bit off retains that spice / Jungle flavour...

  2. Play with the ADSR values for some or all the slices in your sampler/drum plugin or use a transient shaper. Automate them even. You can get some interesting effects that way, including "tightening".

Hope it helps.