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It's kind of hot outside. Inside, the
temperature is even hotter.
Ventilators work overtime in order to
maintain a certain coolness. Some work
has to be done today!
The above could be a small
description of a day in a Reggae
Studio. The musicians enter the
building, where the sound engineer has
allready set up the microphones and
thing, so that everything can be
recorded into the multitrack recorder.
It can also be a description of
your computer. As said before, the
computer merely simulates real
situations, and even expands on these
situations. You could see the
sequencer and midi technology in this
context as well.
It's time to create a riddim, and
midi is the way to do it!
We allready spoke about the
different ways of Reggae Drumming,
several ways to look on the rhythm et
cetera. All of this information will
now be neccesary as we will construct
a basic track.
Our purpose is to create DUB. But
DUB is basically a way of remixing
(Reggae) Music. DUB can also be seen
as "the art of removing", so
we have to make something before we
can re-mix or remove it.
In reggae, a basic track is an
absolute must. These tracks are called
"riddims". It's what the
Jamaican Studio Musicians do for a
living: they enter the studio and
start playing riddims.
After the riddim is recorded,
singers and Dub engineers take these
recordings and do their thing with it.
In order to make DUB, it is kind of
important that this particular
situation is more or less simulated in
the computer. Just like the Studio
Band doesn't "play Dub",
your original riddim shouldn't be a
Dub either. It should be an
instrumental Reggae tune.
So let's make a riddim, now we know
why.
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