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drumloop

By halfbyte on March 9, 2014 7:11 pm

I've been watching a lot of totally mesmerizing videos of people (mostly music students I guess) performing Steve Reich pieces.

This is a very humble and time constrained experiment to recreate Steve Reichs phasing technique within Ableton Live. The drums have been recorded by myself, circa 2000, on an unknown african drum of a room mate of mine. The piece is essentially two identical drum patterns (four bars in 6/8) with one of them essentially playing one beat less, so that on each four bars, both patterns change phase. It ends exactly after the phasing comes round at half the pattern length.

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March 11, 2014 10:00 am

tatecarson

Yea, i like this. I'm enjoying the panning. Did you manually pan this or is that a psycho-acoustic effect of the phase? Either way it's trance inducing, good job.

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March 11, 2014 1:10 pm

halfbyte

Both loops are panned to about 40% or so left and right and on top you're hearing the Ableton Autofilter that gets more intense in the middle of the sequence and filters at 180° Phase, meaning that you're basically hearing two seperate filter LFOs on both channels.

Thanks for the heads up, tatecarson!

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