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rumbling bass lines. With the Drum & Bass machine you need no special skills
to create authentic sounds for your drum’n’bass songs.
A tip: The typical speed for Drum’n’Bass is usually around 160-180 BPM. The
Drum & Bass machine also fits in perfectly with other music styles, e.g. bigbeat
(120 BPM) or trip hop (80-90 BPM).
Setup
The top half of the synthesizer controls the rhythm section, the bottom half
controls the bass section. Between the two, on the left side you will see a
symbol where both sections can be turned on and off individually. You can turn
off the bass section, for example, so that you take only the drum section break
beat into the arrangement. The Samplitude 11.5 Producer arrangement mix will
then only include the drum section in the mix file.
The volume control is on the right border, controlling the volume for both
sections. The play and stop buttons allow you to listen to your drum’n’bass
creations up front in Samplitude 11.5 Producer.
The "Drum‘n’Bass" label covers a menu containing functions to load and save
drum’n’bass patterns (Load machine state/Save machine state), and functions
to delete or generate patterns (Clear all/Random all). The submenu "Velocity
presets" contains some help functions for programming of the velocity row.
The rhythm section (top half)
You can easily create complex and authentic jungle break beat sounds. In a
professional recording studio, jungle break beats are created by dividing any
given drum loop into several small "bits" and putting them back together in a