Whats the difference between drum samples and loops?
Dave Valler, a professional song writer working in the British pop scene, has set up a new online service providing top quality pop/urban drum samples built up over several years of studio work. In an interview with homemusicrecording.com he spoke about the fundamentals of drum samples. What’s the difference was between drum samples and drum loops? Dave says, a ‘drum loop’ is a piece of audio that normally runs for between 1 and 4 bars, it’s made up of several different drum sounds all working together to create the impression you have just recorded a drummer playing a pre-defined rhythm. (A lot of these are more electronic type sounds now, so they don’t normally sound much like a ‘real’ drum kit. But you get the idea. They may not have to have all the elements of a drum kit, just a looping rhythm of some sort). ‘Drum samples’ are the individual elements that are used to create a rhythm from scratch, they are usually loaded into a ‘sampler’ and triggered via playing notes on the keyboa
