How to Produce Beats Fast and Easily | What You Can Do with Cubase

hi and welcome to Cubase on this video I'm going to show you how to produce beats fast and easily and how to create your own unique grooves in Cubase first of all let me show you groove agent this is the main drum instrument in Cubase and this includes lots of amazing presets lots of amazing drum kits that can help you create a bit very very easily of course the very first thing I can do is just trigger my different drum sounds or use a MIDI keyboard or use a drum pad controller to control these sounds like this one right here so now let's record let's set up for bar loop and let's our recording now can keep recording and add more elements so now let's see what we've done when I click on the MIDI event right there of course I can bring up my key editor but in Cubase we also have the drum editor where you can actually see your recordings as drum hits in a much more streamlined approach for editing drums so if you want to bring up a full screen of the draw Meritor just go MIDI and select open drama later and now we have our drama writer right there now if I want to I can also filter all those drum sounds and only show drum sounds with events like this for example if I wanted to add a continuous hi-hat right there I can do this and I can change the velocities like this and now I have a continuous sixteenth note hi-hat pattern and I can add notes just like that very very easily another very quick way to create beats is to just use the patterns that you can find on groove agent SC five so when you click on the button right here you get these cool patterns all you need to do is drag and drop them into your project window and immediately you have a MIDI event that contains those drum loops another way to create beats in Cubase is by taking advantage of the vast library of drum loops that we have let's go to our media bay click on loops and samples and let's go to drum loops so let's drag and drop this loop for example into a project window there we go so let's listen to it but now let's say that this loop doesn't really work for me in terms of groove but I still like the individual elements like the kick drum the snaps all those things so maybe I want to have a tempo of 92 this time and I want to create my own personal groove so how can I do this I can just slice this loop and turn it into a groove agent SC drum kit let me show you how you do this you just double click on your event and then you have to go to your hit points and then you can see that Cubase has already added the hit points on every hit next step is click on create slices and there we go now we have the sliced drum loop right there now all I need to do is open an empty groove agent SC instance like this and drag and drop this loop into one of the cells and there we go now we have all our slices available in to groove agent SC so now I can play all these slices as a drum kit with my MIDI controller or my pad controller it's really that simple now let's say I want to have a very streamlined step editor to create a drum groove we have that in Cubase you just need to go to media inserts and find be designer right there so now if I activate it I can start creating a drum groove using be designer in a step sequencer fashion let me show you [Music] once I come there so I can add flam I can add swing very very easily and now if I want to create a MIDI part out of this pattern I can drag and drop the pattern into my project window just like that of course a big part of bid making is sampling so what I'm gonna do right here is I'm going to record some samples from this analog drum machine into Cubase and then I'll show you what we can do so I'm gonna take my leads right there connect it to my front inputs Neve transformers on why not and I'm going to create an audio track and now let's start recording some samples maybe kick drum maybe a snare chance into a tighter [Music] and now I've recorded all this in I'm gonna show you what we're gonna do with them in a second so now let's do something fun I'm going to take my audio interface and my laptop and I'm gonna go into the other room and start sampling some stuff and show you how you can create beats using your own material your own samples let's do it [Music] now that we recorded all those cool instruments all those cool sounds let's go back into Cubase and create a drum kits using groove agent and the sampler track let's get started so here are the recordings that I made here we have our drum machine or analog drum machine here is my whirly the harmonium the piano and I've basically cut the regions that I think they're gonna be useful and I painted them red so that I can identify them very very easily so let's start with those analog drums I want to go and play back this kick drum for example and now we want to turn this kick drum into a sampler track so all I need to do is just activate my lower zone go to sampler control drop this sample right there and now I can immediately play this kick drum on my keyboard and of course I can change the pitch I can change the length of the sample [Music] create fade-outs I like this this is more tight not it's going to check the Worley samples and I'm gonna do the same thing that I did before when I was chopping the loops I'm going to double click create slices and let's drop those samples right here so now I can immediately trigger those whirly chords on my keyboard now I can go ahead and riku the scores with groove agent and there you go I can use groove agian not only for drums but also for triggering samples very very cool so there you go you got Cubase you got the groove have fun and you'll see you in the next one [Music]

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Length: 8min 24sec (504 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 14 2018