Appreciation for Jungle producers that understand proper music production tools!

3 days ago

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Side by side view of Bladerunner's "Timestretch" and Krinjah's "Cutlass" VST's — *Side by side view of Bladerunner's "Timestretch" and Krinjah's "Cutlass"*

Shouts out to Krinjah and Bladerunner dnb on their recent VST's for breakbeat chopping enthusiasts like myself. I typically chop manually... meaning my preference is to place breaks in audio lined up and slice based on what I hear. Its in recent years I've felt more comfortable using midi tools, sequencers and drum machines in my drum sequencing when making tracks.

For midi drum sequencers, I have a few like TATAT, Amigo, Beat Scholar which are great tools! But, the issue with many of these are that you spend more time mapping out the sequencing for the track by the time its working exactly as you want, your creative impulse has run away.... In step in two jungle dons that FULLY understand what producers face in terms of structuring the breaks for their tracks, placing in edits like reverbs, reversals, fills and rolls, and have done such with EASE.

I really like Krinjah's Cutlass a lot for coming up with new patterns on the fly. His understanding of jungle and dnb rhythms in terms of theory defintely shows in this tool, which is why it was probably easy for me to follow. Def reach out to Krinjah via IG or his website to see about grabbing your copy of Cutlass. Bladerunner has a different plugin called TimesStretch in which you can place all those cool edits in your breaks. I don't have that one yet (thinking I may grab it next week) but will soon and will do my mini dive into it as well. Looks fantastic!

I'm no expert at music production. I attend the one of the best schools in the world studying sound design and music production (Berklee) so naturally at the present, I want to explore all the production tools as making music is so much fun. Other VST's I like Serum, DUNE 3, a lot of the Cymatics.fm's jewels (Shuffle is dope), I still love a lot of Novation Kontakt instruments as they offer so much, RAUM is a great reverb vst, Ableton Live 12 is AMAZING and there's plenty more I can go on about.. I dunno, maybe its time for more mini clips to just show you all.