FM8 Tutorials – Drum Design With FM8 [ENG]

Design Your Own Drums In FM8 – Learn to design your own kick drums, claps and hats in under an hour

Having the opportunity to see someone else’s workflow in song creation can be priceless!
In this 4 part mini series, we see how to design drums in FM8.

In this 4 part micro course, our resident expert Jonny walks you through the steps of designing kick drums, hi hats, claps and percs!

hi Hats and Kicks
Videos 1 and 2 of this drum sound design series for FM8 focus on designing designing kick drums and hi hats. Not only that but you’ll learn how to control these sounds to shape them exactly as you want them to fit your productions.

• Which Operators to use and why
• How to design easily tweak-able drum sounds
• Using envelopes tweak-able shape your drums
• Create a flexible envelope system to generate your own patterns
• Which effects to add to your drum sounds and why
• Simple sound design choices to change characteristics of drums
  
• Claps & Percussion
  

In videos 3 and 4 we’re going to take a look at creating snappy claps and some percussion sounds. You will be able to quickly customize each percussive sound to your specific needs, and of course the fact that your sounds are original will be a big difference maker.

• How to shape your sounds with envelopes
• Important tips for realistic drum design
• Bring your clap to life with our EQ tips
• How to make your own tuned percs such as tom’s
• Creating rhythm with FM8′s effects