{"id":5839,"date":"2019-08-04T08:35:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-04T08:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/currentsound.com\/?p=5839"},"modified":"2020-02-10T13:07:03","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T13:07:03","slug":"how-to-create-lo-fi-drums-and-recordings-in-a-daw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/currentsound.com\/music-production\/how-to-create-lo-fi-drums-and-recordings-in-a-daw\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Create Lo-Fi Drums and Recordings in a DAW?"},"content":{"rendered":"
Someone asked me this question in the recording studio<\/a> the other day and I thought I’d write a blog post on it. Modern DAWs<\/a> have helped beat-makers record at high quality and resolution. Hip-hop however was originally sampled using low quality devices recording devices\/samplers which would be considered inferior today in the terms of quality. Often though, this Lo-Fi sound is considered the true sound of early Boom bap Hip-Hop. Here is a quick lesson on how to emulate that Lo-Fi drum and recording sound in a DAW.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You don’t have to go out and buy some old samplers like the SP-1200 or the MPC so get that sound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Although there are emulations and plugins, people often say that ‘They don’t sound right”. I would argue that “They’re not using it right”. So let me show you how to do it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The SP-1200 and MPC has low bit depth and sample rates. They also did not have much memory and record for very long. 15 seconds in most models. In order to sample a longer chunk of music, beat-makers would speed up the vinyl records they were sampling which would play them faster and in a higher pitch. They would then lower the pitch in the sampler and get a longer sample and longer recording. A 33 RPM record played at 45 RPM is slightly more than a 5th higher in pitch (7 semitones) so you would lower it by around -7 steps\/semitones to get it back to a similar pitch as before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It is the combination of slowing down the vinyl in the sampler plus the low bit rate of sampler that creates the Lo-Fi sound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So if you want the same sound, using a plugin is not enough. You must also copy the workflow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The best Lo-Fi plugin by far isn’t even a plugin. It is part of Native Instruments Maschine. Most people don’t know that Maschine can emulate the sound of older classic samplers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Make any sample in Maschine Lo-Fi by changing the sample engine emulation type.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe Workflow and Low Bit and Sample Rates Causes the Famous Lo-Fi Sound<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Copy the Workflow<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Lo-Fi Plugins & Native Instruments Maschine<\/h2>\n\n\n\n