Generating Minimal House Chords Using Drum Loops & Vocoders Tutorial

Welcome to our latest tutorial on creating minimal house music! In this tutorial, we'll be diving into the often overlooked but incredibly powerful vocoder effect, and how it can be used creatively to transform any rhythmic drum loop into a melodic and dubby chord pattern, just like the ones commonly found in the genre.

Our focus is on a technique that we can use to create truly unique minimal house chord/synth patterns by utilizing the underrated vocoder effect on drum loops. We explore a rack with four different examples, covering everything from selecting the right drum loops & using various musical elements as the source, to adjusting the most important parameters of the vocoder, as well as effects processing and how to set up your channels to use this trick.

You won't want to miss out on the full example of this technique, so be sure to check out the video below!