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Well if ya can't make it good, make it short!

By A-Cow on February 18, 2024 9:39 pm

Pretty much as titled. I just couldn't settle on anything this week, so I sort of just reverted to type and did two big chords with a staccato bass underneath and basically gave up there.

The only real positive of this session was that I came up with a new Digitakt technique (for me anyway - I'm sure this is probably a well established thing) for generating random rhythms, in part inspired by my brief period of M8 ownership.

Basically I just recorded in a chain of a few open and closed hi hat hits with some spaces (which the DT makes quite simple with predefined record lengths) then I use that sample with the "randomise slice" function to generate some grooves - stopping and editing when I like one. I guess it would work with melodic content too - I should give that a go next.

(dunno why I'm treating these descriptions like an audio diary in Fallout/Bioshock or something)

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Simple and good. Makes me think of this hi-end furniture store I used to walk past in Chicago and would totally fit on their playlist. Groove salad yo.

This is really a fun liaten

Very nice!! smile

Hell yeah, this is great!! Short and sweet. It's a great mixture of sounds. Reminds me of Tekken 3 or something.

love those hi hats. nice groove in here and lots of interesting interplay between the various parts. i dig it

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