While you can stay in the box – using Logic, Pro Tools, or Ableton, etc – or you can opt for a standalone drum machine, there is nothing quite like using modular synthesisers to create your percussion tracks. Modular, especially Eurorack format, opens up a world of sound design that is hard to find anywhere else. This is true of building a voice for each drum and just as true for the sequencing and pattern building, so dig in over the next few pages to learn some of the fundamentals of Eurorack drumming, from pattern building to synthesising custom drum voices and adding humanising touches to get things groovy.
Percussion in the modular world
>For so many genres of music it is the drums that lay down the fundamental feel of a track, underpinning everything else and giving other instruments a foundation to play with or against, depending on the desired outcome. A drummer will do this for a band, but if you are a modular synthesist, how do you go about taking on the job of a drummer, even if
