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To use Flex Pitch we need to be working directly with audio, so let's bounce our Ultrabeat-triggered kick pattern onto a new track to get an audio loop we can work with. Many high-end DAWs have their own pitch and time processors built in, so check out your documentation if you're not sure if you already have access to one or not outside of Logic.
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Luckily for us Logic Pro X users, we have one at our fingertips - the ingenious Flex Pitch. If we want to change pitch without affecting time, or the length of our sample, we'll need to use something called a phase vocoder. Tuning down results in a longer sample and tuning up, a shorter one. Our first method of tuning a kick works great for relatively small shifts, say within about an octave, but we must bear in mind that this process does also affect the playback length of the sample. Now we've heard the clear benefit of tuning our kicks, let's move onto method 2.
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It just fits better doesn't it'! How To Tune Kicks - Using Flex Pitch
Now here's the loop with the kick tuned properly: Listening to the kick both before and after tuning really demonstrates the power of the process - here's the loop with the kick in its original key: Thus, rather than dropping the pitch from A down to E, we in fact need to move it 5 steps from C, which is a G. A little annoyingly, Ultrabeat always displays the root pitch of a sample as C, even though in this case we know it's actually an A. So, to get from A down to E, we need to move the kick's pitch by 5 steps or semitones - moving back to Ultrabeat, we just need to drop the red pitch bar down by 5 semitones to achieve this.
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This process is notoriously tricky however, so these plugins will not be totally reliable and a fair amount of trial and error will always be necessary.īack to the task at hand - remember that a full chromatic scale contains the following 12 notes:
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If you're not using Logic, there are free tuning plugins available that will attempt to figure out the key of the audio being run through them, such as Melda Productions' MAutoPitch (available as part of their free plugin bundle). Using Logic Pro X's handy Tuner plugin shows me that the kick sample is roughly tuned to an 'A', so we'll need to get from A to E to properly tune the kick for this section of my song. Opening up the bassline MIDI part shows me that the key of this 8 bar section is 'E' (it doesn't matter whether the key is major or minor for our purposes), so this is the note I'll want to tune the kick sample to. Now we've added some synth keys, a percussion top line and a bassline, we can go about tuning the kick to the key of our song. However, it doesn't make sense to alter the tuning of the kick till we have some other sounds to tune it to - I'm going to use a section from the Resonate demo to demonstrate this process. So, we have our chosen kick and we know how to tune it. The pitch is changed in steps of a cent when using this control. This is known as 'course' tuning, where the pitch is shifted in steps of a semitone - we can also alter the 'fine' tuning of the pitch, by clicking and dragging on the '0c' text shown just beneath the displayed pitch. To change the pitch of the sample, all I need to do is drag on the red bar next to the 'osc2' label - you can see as you drag this up and down, the displayed pitch will change accordingly. I can now drag 'Resonate_Kick_Mid22' onto the waveform display to load it up.
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The only other piece of kit I need when using this method is a sampler, so I'll call up an instance of Ultrabeat on an empty software instrument track, one of Logic's native sampler plugins.Īs I said above, I want to work with my own sample so I just need to right-click one of Ultrabeat's voices and select 'Init > Samples' from the dropdown to clear the slot. How To Tune Kicks - Using a Samplerįirstly, we're going to need a sample that contains a nice, clear pitch - I'm using ' Resonate_Kick_Mid22' from our Resonate - Analog Drum Samples collection.
Tuning may not be quite so important in these circumstances, though there will almost certainly be a 'sweet-spot' in pitch that sounds just right for your given track. It's worth briefly pointing out that not all kicks will necessarily contain a clearly defined root pitch, such as very fast decay or heavily distorted/noisy sounds. In this tutorial, I'm going to show you a couple of methods you can use to tune your kick drums in Logic Pro X, though you can apply exactly the same techniques in other DAWs using the appropriate native tools and plugins. It can be the difference between your production sounding just right or just that little bit off and whilst it can be a little fiddly to get spot on, once you've mastered the process you'll never look back. Tuning the kick drum to the key of your track is one of those little secret tricks that can really perfect a mix.