Electronic Musician

Layering synth drums with samples

f your productions favor sampled drums or you have a penchant for recording drums live, does that mean that the techniques explored here are irrelevant to your workflow? Not at all. In fact, learning how to program electronic drum sounds from scratch might be the missing link between your choice of drum sources sounding merely good or

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