303 Not Found (Roland MC303 + Zoom Sampletrek)
By cTrix on January 14, 2024 7:34 pm
HI! Had a massive freak out as I went to a Sunday evening gig and totally forgot about WB! Woke up at 4am thanks to a possum running on the room - and remembered. Scrambled out of bed, made a vegemite sandwich to help settle the 5 pints I'd had at the gig earlier, fetched the M8 and crawled back into bed... no SD card. Hunted around for the house for 20 minutes trying to find where it went after last week to no avail. Had a mild panic when I realised it's not back'd up either- but it'll be somewhere.
So what do I have that quickly makes sound?? Laptop is at work in the studio... Amiga too hard to setup... Elektron has no PSU (it's somewhere)... Triton doesn't boot up atm (on my fix list). Electric guitar missing a string - plus trying to be quiet not to wake other people :-P So I dived into the back of my old-stuff cupboard and pulled out my old Roland MC303 from my teenage years. Powered on; luckily still has it's contents! Pulled up a track which was basically a bassline and drum track with super cheesy chords I hadn't touched since, jeepers, 1999? Used the M8 as a soundcard to do a live take into an old Netbook running Reaper 2.0 on it. Couple of overdubs to add some leads (played live) But hey, I made a thing. Final touch was to power on the old Zoom sampletrek (in the same cupboard) and fumble though some old 16MB SmartMedia cards to find the sample that I'd planned to originally trigger with this tune back in the day. Dropped that in too (old truefaith voc I think? Very reprocessed / repitched). Also found a crash which came in handy!
So there we go... I present a budget 1999-era cobbled together lo-fi jam. With deliberate use of those iconic digital Roland MC303 filters which gave it a hugely bad reputation! Although I got to say - I kinda like the vocal drop later on. I'd repeat the vocal section, add more builds and flesh it out more if it wasn't 6:30am. I gotta sleep for now.
Note to self : Plz remember weekly beats next week.
(Update: Found M8 SD card this morning)
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