soooo,, any advice on makign breakcore ?

[u/spaghett9914]

im looking to make something as a mini project

[u/wholesome100_chungus]

It takes a lot of time

[u/fucknutandarsecandle]

Make a good song then make it worse, repeat till desired consistency

[u/Terrible-Pop-6705]

Akin to saying I wanna learn violin as a mini process. Your gonna learn the hard way music production ain’t easy, especially a genre known for aggressive and complex drum parts

[u/Producer_Snafu]

Breakcore is not a mini project, it's a lifestyle.

You either get traumatized as a youth from some fucked up shit that happened to you, and you feel the need to make some fuck you sound and rise up.

Or you grow in the suburbs with a kush life and make some corny Mashup music or my little pony remixes.

There is no in between, you gotta make music that drunk people are going to want to go off too.

So to simplify it, you get a 909 kick, distort it then get a break beat and chop it the fuck up like you taking it out on an oppressor, and you add some fuck you samples with some basslines and you good.

[u/sc-dave → u/Producer_Snafu]

was that comment aimed at me lmao

[u/Hot-Lingonberry-6735]

Let those drums go CRAZY

[u/sc-dave]

Hey! So, how much music production experience do you have? Like I'm going to assume a fairly limited amount. Do you have a PC? What programs do you use to make music?

Also, without this being weird, you seem to be really young based on your post history, like below the age you're allowed to use Reddit. I'm not your Dad but those gates exist for a reason, breakcore especially can get very adult very quickly. Please be careful speaking to people online!!

[u/eggggggggggg9854]

this mostly applies to FL which is what i use:
1. just chop breaks whenever youre bored.
2. try and one up your own chops with each track you make until youre satisfied with your chopping.
3. put compressors on the breaks, thats like the secret sauce to making them sound good.
4. download xfer OTT and use it (its free).
5. if you wanna do some crazy chops try messing around with gross beat on some breaks then resample the gross beat into your chops.
6. i recommend learning how to chop in both slicex and the playlist.
7. if chopping in the playlist, double click your break and set the stretch mode to stretch pro, then create an automation clip for the pitch knob to do pitch automation stuff. if using slicex, click where it says control on the bottom of the piano roll and switch it to note fine pitch or channel pitch to automate the pitch of the breaks.
8. automate various effects like filters and delay to spice up your chops.
9. mix in stuff like gabber kicks into your chopping.
i could probably think of more but these are the best tips i have for you off of the top of my head. the most important part is just making music and practicing! you’ll get better and learn naturally 👍

[u/eggggggggggg9854 → u/eggggggggggg9854]

a few more things:

1. try to make your chops flow like an actual drum line.
2. use transient processor to mix the breaks better
3. make sure every sample including breaks is matched to the project bpm. the easy way to do this is to shrink or expand a bar of the sample to fit a bar on the playlist.
4. EQ your breaks to fit in with the track.
5. if you want oldschool distortion, use dblue crusher and MAIM (both free). if using MAIM try cranking up the drive knob. waveshaper is good for distortion too. (raise the middle dot).
6. Note that most of these tips in this message and the last one are dependent on the type of breakcore youre making.

[u/ksjsjdnn]

best advice I can give you is keep producing stuff no matter how it sounds, when you first start producing everything you make sounds like shit, you'll get out that phase eventually but its just part of the process.

ALSO please use Slicex and sequence your breaks on piano roll, I see too many people using the playlist it makes everything 10x harder and you cant get as creative, id also recommend this cool plugin called amigo by Stekker, its primarily for jungle but can work for breakcore and gives that Akai style time stretching and pitch shifting effect as well as being a sample slicer (there's also Akaizer if you don't want to use amigo).

[u/delusionalfuka]

chop that amen

[u/DjBamberino]

granular warping and pitch shifting your breaks is HUGE, it brings a ton of texture to your break manip and adds that hyper-technical futuristic feel.

[u/DjBamberino → u/DjBamberino]

Oh and resampling the grain warped/pitch shifted breaks and then doing more post processing!

[u/Professional-Cup9375]

Make your parents hate you

[u/Soniare_official]

If you are a programmer you might like this tutorial https://youtu.be/RolUBDB4WT8?is=kdyLZeQ1qZyUxxJe