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Michael Hetrick is a student at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN. He began his music career at the age of three, and started producing electronic music in sixth grade. He currently has a solo project, The February Thaw and plays drums for a band called Richard Flemming.
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Advanced Drum Editing in Kontakt

Michael Hetrick on Aug 12th 2009 with 21 comments

I created this tutorial to serve two purposes. First off, I feel that there is a distinct lack of proper in-depth Kontakt tutorials. This tutorial teaches you everything you need to know to get started with Kontakt 3’s amazing Group editing. Second, I find that there are plenty of threads out there where someone will ask “How do I get my drums to sound like ____?” (Usually Squarepusher). I feel that group editing is the quickest, yet most hands-on way of creating incredible, glitchy beats without relying on VST effects as a crutch (and therefore avoiding sounding like anybody who else who uses Plug-in X).

This tutorial is aimed at anybody new to Kontakt or Komplete 5, people who haven’t really explored Kontakt’s groups, or anybody looking for a new, creative approach to beat-mangling.

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