Adjust the threshold, attack and release until you get a rhythmic pad. Use something such as a hi-hat track for the rhythm and select it from the compressor’s sidechain input on the pad track. What’s better than pads on a track? How about choppy, rhythmic pads? Create a pad track and insert a compressor. Then add an audio track and route the output of the noise track to its input. Adjust the release time to shape the length of the noise to taste. Set a Tone Generator to about 2kHz and add a gate with the sidechain input set to the snare. The same principle can be applied to snares, only this time using white noise. This should enable you to record the Tone track. Now add an audio track and route the output of the Tone track to its input.

Adjust the gate until the Tone Generator is only heard when triggered by the kick. Next, add a gate and set its sidechain input to receive from the kick drum track.

If you find that your kick drum doesn’t have enough weight to it, consider creating an aux track and adding a Tone Generator set to a 60Hz sine wave as an insert. There are some simple tricks that can inspire you to stretch your musical muscles and push your productions further too.

Studio One 5 provides all the tools required to make music, alongside features that with a little setup can minimise any cumbersome technical issues and let you concentrate solely on the music. It doesn’t matter whether you’re just making your first tracks or you’ve been producing music for decades, there are always things that can improve your sound, workflow and the general grooviness of your recording and production projects.

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