Then I think about all of the folks who don't have a decade behind a mixing board and within a digital audio workstation trying to figure this out. It'd literally be impossible, which is what made dubstep so cool. Even professional techno and electro mixers who scratch and have other methods to develop similar sounds would be intimidated by this.īut I wanted to be like Skrillex, Skrux, and Bassnectar, not those other guys! The kings creating and developing this new sub-genre are heroes in my mind. I wanted to be able to reproduce what they were doing to some degree. Heck, I have to uphold my reputation as the computer nerd music guy that can make anything happen. I particularly wanted to focus on Brostep's robotic fluctuations and metal-esque aggression in the middle register of the frequency spectrum. Luckily, as I was mentioning this to an online friend, he told me about this certain set of software plugins for your DAW that had come out recently that made this genre completely approachable for anyone, but still didn't dumb it down to the point where you're only using loops and sucking the creativity out of the process.Īuthenticity is important to me. When I snagged this software and opened it up, I was thrilled to find all of tempo syncing options, because they showed me the path and helped me understand what it was I wanted to create. And I did make a dubstep beat and you'll hear it below. This'll get you in the right frame of mind as you read along: Let me explain the process for the purists (like me usually) who want to create every single wub and wobble from the ground up, then I want to tell you about this software plugin suite and other types of gear that will aid you in your dubstep creator endeavors.īefore we get started, let me go ahead and let you hear the final result of the track we put together for our album. You beat makers out there may laugh, but I'm proud of that one. I tried to mix in some trap beat patterns too. By the way, you can download Dubstep is Destiny where I uploaded it to the official LedgerNote Soundcloud page.
We'll make the full version with vocals available when it's ready. To really pull off what many people are going to consider as genuine, authentic dubstep beats requires a lot of work and time. Here's a basic summary to explain how crazy this is.
It essentially starts with synthesizers and MIDI data.
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