One hour of tight beats, man. Spotting some of your usual suspects, like killer snares and casio hi hats

The Beat Detective

One hour of tight beats, man. Spotting some of your usual suspects, like killer snares and casio hi hats ;) The Beat Detective

What gear did you use to make this? Super aggressive!

What gear did you use to make this? Super aggressive!

Just Renoise! The synth is SodaSynth with my usual grimy effects chain: chorus->distortion -> cabinet sim (guitar amp)->(or maybe the chorus is here?)->low-pass filter. The effects dominate the synth sound, so it doesn't really matter what synth you plug into it. Distortion + guitar amp makes everything sound like that.

The chorus has a distortion built in and that's being driven by a square LFO, which gives the synth a bit of rhythm. There's two other effects with big sweeping automation curves that change in every pattern. One is the drive on the distortion, and I think the other one is just a low-pass filter.

The drums are a combination of the free KJ Sawka kit and a bunch of drum machine samples, including some Casio samples of course, Laguna.

I ran out of time to write a description for the track, whoops! Doing this track made me realize how much I appreciate being able to edit automation with a keyboard instead of a mouse, especially when it comes to setting pan and volume on drum hits. I really don't like the way you usually have to edit per-note automation with a mouse in DAWs and I'd say that's one of the reasons I didn't do it much before I started using Renoise (where keyboard control rules).

Thanks for the comments guys!

[quote=scottux]What gear did you use to make this? Super aggressive![/quote] Just Renoise! The synth is SodaSynth with my usual grimy effects chain: chorus->distortion -> cabinet sim (guitar amp)->(or maybe the chorus is here?)->low-pass filter. The effects dominate the synth sound, so it doesn't really matter what synth you plug into it. Distortion + guitar amp makes everything sound like that. The chorus has a distortion built in and that's being driven by a square LFO, which gives the synth a bit of rhythm. There's two other effects with big sweeping automation curves that change in every pattern. One is the drive on the distortion, and I think the other one is just a low-pass filter. The drums are a combination of the free KJ Sawka kit and a bunch of drum machine samples, including some Casio samples of course, Laguna. :) I ran out of time to write a description for the track, whoops! :) Doing this track made me realize how much I appreciate being able to edit automation with a keyboard instead of a mouse, especially when it comes to setting pan and volume on drum hits. I really don't like the way you usually have to edit per-note automation with a mouse in DAWs and I'd say that's one of the reasons I didn't do it much before I started using Renoise (where keyboard control rules). Thanks for the comments guys!

gnarly as hell! Very impressed by the beat programming end even more by the awesome mixing! Programming itself would have taken me several hours

gnarly as hell! Very impressed by the beat programming end even more by the awesome mixing! Programming itself would have taken me several hours :)