Don't limit yourself to cookie-cutter methods that have been proven - Some of the most interesting stuff comes out of going about something in a totally unorthadox manner.
Sample anything that you like the sound of. So many people seem to be terrified of sampling like it's going to suck all the mojo out of their work. There's stuff you can do with sampling/resampling that would be next to impossible otherwise but would take 4 seconds via resampling.
Plus, a lot of what people love to think of as 'analogue sound', by way of earlier dance music, is just layered samples, ok so it's off analogue gear, but it's been sampled, duplicated, processed, layered,etc etc.
OMG, I'm going to sell this idea to all the big players, I'll be rich.
Best DRM ever, bandpass filter all of your music.
I once wrote the greatest track in the history of electronic music, but i hpf'd at 20khz to prevent noobs and haterz from sampling it, so you'll just have to take my word for it.
Well how else do you get a rhythm or melody out of our brain and into a drum machine or step sequencer? Tap it out on drum pads, beatbox it, sing it, hum it, whatever. I just find it's better to know how to hear the subtleties in a beat or phrase and be able to actually play them, rather than butchering it, using 16th quantize to "fix it" (note you have moved it even further away from the groove you want) and then mucking around with a shuffle quantize setting hoping you can somehow find the magic in your head that has still not been translated into useful midi data. Garbage in garbage out. Friends don't let friends use quantize.
Don't let a lack of equipment or software hold you back from making tunes. That feeling of "If I just had that one bit of kit..." never really goes away.
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Nah, a relatively narrow cut (width depends on the type of kick). Makes them softer and easier to mix.
If you highpass your kicks at 400hz no one can steal them
