FM8 Tutorials – Drum Design With FM8 (TUTORIAL)

By | December 23, 2025

 

Release Year: 2013
Manufacturer: FM8 Tutorials
Manufacturer’s Website: www.adsrsounds.com/product/courses/drum-design-with-fm8/
Author: FM8 Tutorials
Duration: 00:43:12
Type of Material: Video Lesson
Language: English

  • 338.8 MB

Description: Design Your Own Drums in FM8. Learn to create your own kick drums, snares, and hi-hats in under an hour. Seeing someone else’s song creation workflow can be invaluable! In this 4-part mini-course, we’ll walk you through all the steps of designing a kick drum, snare drum, hi-hat, claps, and percussion in FM8.
Design Your Own Drums in FM8 – Learn to design your own kick drums, claps, and hats in under an hour
Having the opportunity to see someone else’s song creation workflow can be priceless!

In this 4 part mini series, we see how to design drums in FM8.
In this 4 part micro course, our resident expert Jonny walks you through the steps of designing kick drums, hi hats, claps and percs!
hi Hats and Kicks
Videos 1 and 2 of this drum sound design series for FM8 focus on designing designing kick drums and hi hats. Not only that but you’ll learn how to control these sounds to shape them exactly as you want them to fit your productions.
Which Operators to use and why
How to design easily tweak-able drum sounds
Using envelopes tweak-able shape your drums
Create a flexible envelope system to generate your own patterns
Which effects to add to your drum sounds and why
Simple sound design choices to change characteristics of drums
Claps & Percussion
In videos 3 and 4 we’re going to take a look at creating snappy claps and some percussion sounds. You will be able to quickly customize each percussive sound to your specific needs, and of course the fact that your sounds are original will be a big difference maker.
How to shape your sounds with envelopes
Important tips for realistic drum design
Bring your clap to life with our EQ tips
How to make your own tuned percs such as Tom’s
Creating rhythm with FM8′s effects

Content :
1. Creating A Custom Hi-Hat Loop In FM8
2.Creating Custom Kick Drums in FM8
3.Creating Custom Claps with FM8
4. Creating a Perc Sequence In FM8

Example files: none
Video format: MP4
Video: AVC, 1184×720, 1.644, 30.000 fps, ~888 Kbps
Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, ~192 Kbps, 2 channels


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