How to turn the sounds in your own clips into a techno track
Give Vizard Agent the clips and the style. It generates a drums-and-bass bed with room left in the middle, measures the bed's real tempo instead of trusting what it asked for, and places your sounds on that grid as short phrases, filtered so they never fight the kick and bass. If it switches sounds too often, it gives each one its own section.
What do you type into Vizard Agent?
Say which clips to use and what the music should do, such as good bass. If you have an opinion about how busy it should be, say that too. A version that uses every sound as often as possible can feel like constant switching, and Vizard Agent can space them out from the start.
Use these clips to create a techno song with good bass. Don't switch between the sounds too often, or it gets confusing.
What does Vizard Agent actually do?
It treats your clips as the lead instrument and builds everything else around them. A generated bed rarely lands exactly on the tempo it was asked for, so the grid comes from measuring the audio, not from the prompt. In the session behind this article it:
- Generated a drums-and-bass bed at 128 BPM with no lead melody, then measured it: the best-fitting grid was 128.025 BPM, with the first beat at 0.04 seconds.
- Cut each clip's sound into short phrases, filtered to 190–5,100 Hz so they stayed clear of the kick and sub-bass, and placed them on that grid.
- Balanced the layers by measured loudness and checked the bass band against everything above it: about 7 dB stronger in the first drop.
- When the user found the switching confusing, rebuilt it with one sound per 22.5-second section and 30 sample entrances instead of 334. The user replied "It's perfect".
- Made the harder version the user asked for next by re-timing the same 30 entrances to 150 BPM.
When does this not work well?
When the sounds are long and tonal, like a sung melody. Short buzzy or percussive sounds chop cleanly onto a beat, but a melody brings its own key and timing, and forcing it over a bed in another key sounds wrong rather than musical.
Common questions
Can my own sounds be the lead? Yes. Vizard Agent builds the drums and bass around them.
Will it stay on the beat? Vizard Agent measures the real tempo before placing anything.
Can it be harder or faster? Yes. Vizard Agent re-times the same sounds to a new tempo.