> Thanks to the surgical precision of computer-based production tools, you can now combine different drum sounds into a hybrid that works exactly the way you want it.
Each drum has a certain formulaic nature to how its sound is made up. For example, a kick drum usually consists of a low note pitchbending downward, plus a higher, noise-like ‘click’ element higher up the frequency spectrum. Since different drum machines’ kicks – and indeed acoustic kicks – act in much the same way, you can isolate the low end of one kick and layer it with the click of another. The precision tools necessary for this layering include filtering for each channel, and timing to ensure the two layers play with the right timing.