CMP: Kit K Force Please explain to our readers some reasons why you choose Cubase 4 & Nuendo to produce and arrange your music compositions with.
KITKFORCE: Well I really like the freedom that I have with Cubase, I can record any variety of instruments into a sequenced track in real time. i do a ton of punch in recorded midi parts. The punch in recording in real time allows me to get the perfect sequence. I use Nuendo for the bigger music projects i do with 30 or more audio tracks. Most of the club tracks i produce are with Nuendo.
CMP: What got you into producing hiphop music in the first place kit k force? Why hiphop Music, when so many producers focus on making dubstep?
KITKFORCE: I am from a crazy lifestyle , I was doing things in the street and messing up my life. I got into some trouble more than a few times, and I really looked to music as a way out of the drama and f**ked up situations I was in. I feel like HipHop music is where I came from as far as expression of what I feel. I have tried to produce other forms of music, and I wonder why am I making this? I dont really feel it, so I just stay with producing hiphop music. I like some dubstep, but to me HipHop music conquers all, it is very hard to make a dope hiphop track. Dubstep relies on a lot of processing and manipulation of electronic instruments and settings. All of the music I make I play the instruments, and I edit all the parts into an orchestra style of sequencing.
CMP: So what are some new ideas you are working on now in 2012. What do you see your style changing into during the next year?
KITKFORCE: I am always editing 808 beats and samples to get some new patterns. I am engineering my tracks a little bit differently when I mix Bass and Kick drums together through separate channel compression and eq'ing. I am trying to focus on more hardcore/ clubstyle hiphop tracks with a lot of bass.
CMP: We have a screenshot of a Cubase composition which you are in the process of sequencing, please explain in detail what we are looking at and how this is a song.
The top Tracks Audio 1 & 2 are my drum tracks 808 Kick, and 808 Snare. The next tracks below the 808 kick and snare are Group 1 & Group 2. These are my group channel tracks which I route different Instruments into to be compressed or effected differently, most likely Group 1 will be a dynamic compressor, and Group 2 may be echo or reverb. The next track is Instrument Track, this is my Midi instrument channel, I can play all my VST synthesizers within Cubase and sequence them on the Instrument Midi track. After I quantize the Midi loop and events I to a Midi to Audio 24 bit transfer. I import the newly created audio part into mt sequence and continue in this method when creating most of the samples for my songs. Track Audio 03 is my 808 HiHats track, The next track is the diggy piano line which is an E.P keyboard melody line sample. the next Tracks(lil snoop synths 1-4 ) are my Chorus melody synthesizer lines . When I set up a song I have a certain sequence which allows me to build the Chorus with various pianos and synth lines and melodies. This Track is edited beyond what you can see on the screenshot. I have the actual verse starting at 9 which is represented by the little upside down triangle. The long line extending down through the sequences is the curser as the song plays , the curser moves along and stops and starts wherever you place it within the top ruler & bpm strip.
