Drum Machine Tuning, Need help figuring this out. Options

[thefarside07]

I use Propellerheads Reason all the time, however I am just now starting to venture out into my own compositions. As far as Drum tuneing goes I just don't get it. I use the Redrum for my drum patterns, and load the provided samples... but how do I tune these samples to work better with each other. Should I tune the kick drum so it's on or around the same frequency as the bass, the claps and hi-hats so that there at the same frequency as my mids... Can someone please shed some light on this for me, or point me to a direction that might help.

Thanks,
Brian

[lepetitmartien]

Save a few idiophones like marimbas, xylophones, triangles etc. with fixed pitch. Drums are mostly not pitched as they are in the most part noise, and noise has no pitch. Now, some can have a tuning like timbales because they are the only ones of this form of the drum family to have a prominent fundamental note. On drums like a kick, it will mostly affect the "tightness" of the sound and its harmonic structure, and there is a question of taste there, tuning is more a "quality" than a way to follow a key. Be it deep or less so, more dry or wet…

DAN010 input is interesting as it's an illustration of an intelligent "abuse" to be musical in some way And some (like drummers, we all know they are crazy may be more atuned to drum tuning. Myself on synths, it's taste I follow (and absolute hearing… erk)