For all you Deluge users we made a list of some helpful shortcuts we used while making this video: • Double clip length and rollout: [Shift] + press [◄ ►] knob • Re-order kit row: [Audition pad] + press and turn [▼▲] knob • Change single kit row colour: [Shift] + [Audition pad] + turn [▼▲] knob • Make a kit row send MIDI: [Audition pad] + [MIDI] (any sound assigned to the kit row is removed, it will only send MIDI now) • Select MIDI channel / note for kit row: [Audition pad] + turn [lower] knob / [upper] knob • Add current instrument to choke group: [Shift] + [Polyphony] > CHOK • Sample start/end: [Shift] + [Waveform]. Press green start line or red end line, then adjust with [pads] or [select] knob. Zoom in for finer adjustments (press and turn [◄ ►] knob) • Newly placed notes and notes played with the audition pads will default to the same velocity as the last note touched on that pattern (that's the reason I touch the cymbal step at 8:00 - so I can use the audition pad at this velocity). These will of course also be in the Deluge Cheat Sheet we're working on right now! :)

Man... timestretch artifacts are like a spcial sauce of each sampler. DnB/Jungle oldskoolers seem to just know an Akai timestretch vs anything else.

I should hate this break as it's been used to death, but it really does sound so nice and lend itself to being used in so many ways.

Can I just say as a non-musician, but an avid listener who loves doing deep dives on my favorite genres: This was so refreshing and wonderful to hear a precise and in-depth break down of the building block that makes up my favorite genre, Drum and Bass. The way you've presented it is so wonderful and clear. Absolutely lovely. Thank you.

First time i heard an Amen, i would have never thought it was just a normal drumkit.

I can never get tired of hearing an Amen. Great video, thanks for sharing!

I love how the drum beats that plays during the transitions are played by the featured drum machine (drum machines this time) in his videos.

I always felt the charm of the Amen was how it changed in pitch when it was matched to the tempo of whatever track it was being used in.

Deluge is a junglemachine--the p-locking lets you change all sorts of parameters per hit, so you can do the filter/pitch/etc sweeping. Also, the timestretch algo is really reminscent of the early Akai algos, so riiiinnnnsssee oooouuuttt to your heart's content.

I‘ve always struggled with my songwriting for the singular reason of being bad at designing beats. I just found this channel and it’s a godsend

Wow, I wasn't expecting the reconstruction to sound as convincing as it does, seriously well done 👏

I m 46 and an oldschool breakbeat rave fan from the 90s era. Also an amateur musician in that genre from 2000. The video blew my mind! Such an inspiration! (Especially the slices!)

Just subscribed. This is by far the best analysis/breakdown of the amen break that I've ever seen. This is coming from a music producer who has been at it for 8+ years!

I've literally just started playing around with music production stuff, videos like this really help with the motivation to keep learning cool shit like this!

Great video,I never really thought about how with slicing a break you could introduce all kinds of flam roll and ratchet wizardry in a song.

I'm a drummer and this video was very helpful. Since Jojo Mayer and his band Nerve emerged, a loy of drummers try to freely improvise on this break in the manner that you just showed. Thank you❤

That tip with the 909 kicks to supplement pitched up amens lack of low end is gonna be really helpful, this video is fantastic!

this hardware is incredible, and here i thought this kinda drum precision necessitated a live recording...

Loved the ending, another awesome video packed with tons of useful information for us producers....can't thank you enough for your hard work. Your editing is some next level shit, honestly

Very detailed and informative, and presented in a clear and accessible way. This is the best analysis of the Amen break that I have seen. Thank you.

I've always feared these giant drum machines, but you make everything seem so logical and accessible.

Just a subtle correction from a drummer: it's not a crash cymbal, its the edge of the ride cymbal.

This is the best Amen Break explaination I ever have seen so far! Very good job! Awesome!

I love your channel. It’s equal parts synth music history and instruction. Keep up the amazing work! Thanks!

Excellent stuff, as always. Watching the deluge used for drums really makes me miss mine, the perfect rhythm interface. Cheers, always love your work.

Excellent tutorial! Straight to the point, comprehensive and informative. In the 90s I despaired of re-creating this drum loop; wish I would have seen this video back then 😄

Great video. With the Amen break, that ride cymbal can be a bit much, especially when pitching down. The bell of the ride just makes me pucker some times and reach for a lot of EQ. If you're using Ableton, the drum bus plug-in has a transient section that can really take the edge off it. Just dial it down to taste. It is much more pleasing than trying to notch out different frequencies. Plus it shortens up the ringing of the ride, creating more space for other sounds with mid-high and high, dominant, frequencies.

This is the best production lesson channel out there, and I really enjoy your aesthetic! Thanks for making such great content

What a fantastic video - thank you for making this, its so useful for a new comer in understanding the amen break which gets mentioned and used so much.

Awesome video, I really like how easy you made it on the viewer, it's a very easy watch in my opinion and yet you're going into very specific detail. Lovely !

What a great video. Your breakdown of how to compile and complete this classic riff are well presented! Cheers!

Far one of the best format i see about producing I like to sea how much love and work you put in your videos. Quality instead of Quantity

This is so dope. I might use this as an excuse to transcribe to sheet music and cram as much of this info as I can

Your videos are always so crispy and detailed, great 🔥

Great clinic. I very much enjoy the production style.

The hand banana man said it all, the Akai s950 was a beast and still in use today. Pete Cannon still bangs out old skool tracks using an old skool studio. Captain Planet, I doff my hat to you sir....

Wow, the production quality as well as the content here are astonishing. Great work!

Wonderful video as always! Love it!

For me, the nicest thing about the Amen is that Im not playing a loop. It has its notes and it's structure but you are giving me all this The basis of drum sampling Might seem like a simple thing to say today, but a godsend to the world when it happened. I have a drum set!

Velocities are so so important but since software, you wouldn't know it was a big thing for creating expression and dynamics. The velocity response/curve on many software instruments and drum machines is pathetic. Edit: and PS Captain, very authentic and well done. 😎

This is so entertaining, useful, cool, and informative. Thanks!

great video! love your work - thank you!

Learnt a lot from that, thanks. For example, I tend to just lay in a bar or two of drums and repeat it. Now I’m gonna copy that a few times and tweak each bar. Second, I will start to use dynamics on drums more, for ghost notes for example. I need to go away and work out how to chop up a sample like that too. Very cool. Loving my new Deluge, what a machine. Thanks.

Very interesting break-down of the mother (or brother) of all breaks! Your videos always start me thinking and give me a better understanding of the music I love. I've taken to programming some "realistic" (as far as my understanding of live drumming allows me to be) drums using the recently released free Vintage Drums library for the Spitfire LABS VST, that I then sample and chop to add a little variation in my D'n'B / jungle / braindance -ish sketches. It's great fun.

Amazing! thanks for the tut, please keep creating educative content like this one

first time I've ever seen the Amen broken down in this way - super interesting, thanks!

Fantastic video. The production quality is unparalleled imo

Just wow. never thougt about remaking that drumbeat, but here you are. Amazing video and Deluge too..

I was gonna like it anyway but calling the video an Amen Breakdown was a very nice touch that solidified a like and a follow! Great video!

Awesome vid, very slick produxtion. A joy to watch

This is super dope! Thanks for the lesson!

What an outstanding video and piece of equipment. This channel is amazing!

My favourite new KZfaq discovery this channel. Well done, great channel!

I think it was pretty easy to sample, as just playing at 33 1/3 rpm (for the single version) immediately makes it hip hop

Following along transcribing and programming this on my own machine was pure joy! Thank you for the awesome tutorial, captain!

This video has such amazing production. Brilliant channel.

You are the best on KZfaq! So much kudos for making your videos adfree! This tube is rotten with ads!

Brilliant work after slicing and adding Thank you for the tips

such a clean lesson, thanks!

Really well explained - and TOP production!

Love these vids! Love to see more hip hop.

Everything you add it to makes it amazing 👏

Loved seeing you chop it up live at the end, I gotta try that

Excellent video. Love it.

Love the video really informative and entertaining 👌

This is the best drum machine/electronic music channel I've ever run across.

Fantastic, thanks!!!

Holy Hell!. I have learned so much just from this one video. Thank you, dude!! 😃👌👍

Just what I needed!! Great tutorial for Amen Break lovers!

Great video, thanks!

You never fail to amaze me

Excellent, need some time to process this. But it really is a great drum break. Thank you

Outstanding video

Fantastic video!

Great video on the most well known drum sample (possibly any sample). Also a great advert for the deluge. I'm definitely getting one now.

what a lesson! amazing! thanks 🤜🤛

Thank you for such a detailed video🧡

Wonderful video about the amen break!

Wow, you did an amazing job 🤯 Thank you

Excellent, can you do the Apache break next please?

Banger video!

Omg please do more!! More drum n bass/ Jungle

Hey, this is a great video, and is incredibly well made! Gave it a like :)

flippin' fantastic beat breakdown

Great vid !

Great work!

That was an awesome breakdown! Pun intended.

Thanks I was really searching for an explanation of the structure of this beat

Excellent work! :)

Definitely would want to see more tr6s videos

you're a great teacher. I learned a lot thx

So cool! Never managed to deconstruct those dnb rhythms...

Awesome video, thank you! I’m going to program this into my eurorack modular system...should be fun!

Your channel is excellent!!

The time-stretching at the end reminded me of Fatboy Slim's Rockafeller Skank, where he used its slowdown artifacting intentionally when the song transitions to its slower part.

Great video!

You certainly know your stuff Buddy. Excellent 👌🏼

Marvellous insight 😉

Did justice mate. Love seeing how others chop it up. Got it distilled on that machine ❤

This is legitimate my favorite break, and my favorite sample, I have samples at least one part of it in most of my (admittedly trash) songs! Very good analysis!