Beat

Big Beat à la The Prodigy

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1 Breakbeats

Although hits by The Prodigy like „Firestarter“, „Smack My Bitch Up“ and „Omen“ rely on drum & bass typical breakbeats, they move at a tempo between 130 and 140 BPM. For our big beat track, we create a new project at 136 BPM. We‘ll start with the groove. The XLN Audio XO plug-in [1] comes with a suitable preset called „Detonator“.

2 Voodoo beats

So that we can change the groove in the DAW, we export the beat in

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