Platform Event
By cmcavoy on January 4, 2026 6:52 pm
Hello! Very excited to be here. My name is Chris, this is my first year submitting to weekly beats. My first submission uses a workflow I've been working on for a while.
1. start with a sample (or drum loop)
2. chop it up on the MPC
3. play around with effects
4. create an arrangement with pad / track mutes
5. export to Ableton
6. add more effects & effect automation
7. maybe separate stems to mess with the arrangement more
8. run it through a mastering chain I built for my last EP which makes it sound like it's been living on a cassette tape in direct sun in the passenger seat of an old Taurus
9. annnnnnd hit print.
I started with a stack of loops from Splice for step 1, which ended up being very dubby sounding so I leaned in and used arturia 201 tape delay (space echo clone) and spring reverb as significant effects. I'm a sucker for stepped on tape sample sounds. While I love working with actual tape, I've settled on digital tape effects for expediency.
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