Radial London
By Dank Receptor on January 18, 2026 1:55 pm
Another (stereo) acid jam this week recorded live into Ableton. Had a good session early in the week and wanted to give the arrangement a revision on Sunday, but there wasn't time for that. Happy to leave it as is -- a nice sketch.
Tried to give the bass line a bit more space and direction rather than just a full on 16th stream. It's a bit too heavy on the downbeat, and could have been more syncopated and funky. I like the buzzy patch I got on a Behringer Model D, then sent it through a resonant-y delay patch on the Quadraverb.
The drums are Nord Drum 2 going through a lofi patch on the Nord Micromodular (bit rate reduction, sample rate reduction, a bit of filtering) -- then smashed in the Drum Bus in Ableton. Happy with the results I get from going hard on the drums, think I've been too careful with them in the past.
x0xb0x (sawtooth/left) and TD-3 (square wave/right) doing the trad acid stuff. x0x gets some digital spring reverb ITB, while the TD gets some analog spring reverb OTB. Funny thing, the TD3 needs to be calibrated, the tuning goes a bit out in the higher octaves. But hey, that makes it microtonal!
Pads/keys from the good old MKS-50, with some Quadraverb and OTO BAM ambience added.
Just three weeks in I already feel that Weekly Beats 2026 has put me back in the swing of things.
Cool, thanks for listening!
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