Beat technique one (Little Piggy)

By laguna on January 22, 2024 12:01 am

Extra props to Little Scale for bearing my general lameness until Wednesday!!!

I finally could upload this one, after several crashes and workarounds trying to render my file.

I'm not in any extent an expert in LittleGPTracker, but I've always had a soft spot for it since it runs on my beloved PSP. I lost an old project in WB2018 and wanted to "remember" what I did, so I managed to find most of the samples I remembered... most of the drum and breaks, but all the melody was gone and forgotten.

Long story short, I couldn't for the life of me make nothing but boring fakechip-style doodles, so I just stuck to drums and tried to do the usual trickery in order to sound somewhat listeneable.

I failed to render the song on time and even on the next day the different implementations of the Piggy kept crashing. Now I have a semi-functional Arch Linux version (I do pipewire so when Jack is invoked, the whole thing crashes) and a backup Windows version running on emulation under Wine. Mildly convoluted, I know.

Three drum tracks and one reverb send added in post. All very lightly mastered in Reaper running on Manjaro Linux. The LSP compressor could be a viable alternative to my go-to Ableton's The Glue

And yes, as "an exercise in rhythmic technology", I think LittleGPTracker (the Little Piggy) slaps hard and tight

Best wishes for the rest of your week

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Tags: beat, dragonfly reverb, lgpt, linux, littlegptracker, lsp plugins, reaper, week 4 2024, View by:laguna

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February 1, 2024 4:05 pm

SQF

This is a cool rhythm! I sense a sample collab with this one

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February 2, 2024 5:26 pm

jbarket

love it so much. a lot of the time I feel like the minute breaks get chopped, they keep some of the analog, live played vibe, but become something totally different. so many of the drums in this just maintain that sense of real, live, analog drums and mixed with the super digital sounds in the rest of the track, it's a joy.

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February 3, 2024 2:52 am

Kedbreak136

That beat is smooth and organic. I really like the sound you get out of the (sliced?) drum - it retains a reality to it while being cut. The other sounds add a surreal layer. Very interesting sound sculpture on this track!

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February 5, 2024 12:12 am

rplktr

This track was used in my Lofi Beats To Ponder Impermanence To.

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February 12, 2024 4:01 pm

laguna

SQF wrote:

This is a cool rhythm! I sense a sample collab with this one

Thanks a lot, SQF! Hit me with a message if you need the original stems. I myself have a couple of fills I'll rip off the track for future reutilization.

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jbarket wrote:

love it so much. a lot of the time I feel like the minute breaks get chopped, they keep some of the analog, live played vibe, but become something totally different. so many of the drums in this just maintain that sense of real, live, analog drums and mixed with the super digital sounds in the rest of the track, it's a joy.

it means a lot to me. I must say there's actually just ONE break in this song, based on a royalty free, 70's inspired acoustic drum made by the french band Kojak for a Future Music CD. The crunchiest one, sounding quite hissy and saturated, was built by me from individual hits on a Roland SP 404 mk2, abusing the resample feature.

I usually conciously make a groove in, let's say, 90 bpms, and then, when cutting it to breaks, place it over a 88 bpm grid, so the alignment is not perfect, and then resample again in order to "fix" that wonkiness into the groove.

If you really though there were more acoustic breaks in the track, then my technique is working. Anyway, thanks a lot for listening and the kind comments

Kedbreak136 wrote:

That beat is smooth and organic. I really like the sound you get out of the (sliced?) drum - it retains a reality to it while being cut. The other sounds add a surreal layer. Very interesting sound sculpture on this track!

Thanks a lot, Kedbreak136 ! If you read my previous comment, I explain that I put a lot of effort in various layers of breaks and resampling. I usually force myself to start from the stallest, most boring hits, like a Roland R8 "human composer" drum machine, so I must add some groove somehow in order to escape the grid programming.

Anyway, I'd love to be able to accompany those grooves with interesant melodies, though I'm lacking strongly in that department...

I'm really grateful to you for listening and leaving such constructive comments

[quote=SQF]This is a cool rhythm! I sense a sample collab with this one[/quote] Thanks a lot, SQF! Hit me with a message if you need the original stems. I myself have a couple of fills I'll rip off the track for future reutilization. [img]https://media.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExcnR6NndjNHM4Y3Zjd3EyM2xmZW02ZDhzZHI5ZnMxZHFzdHRjNDhodyZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/PavJIxVPFbaVodJXij/giphy.gif[/] [quote=jbarket]love it so much. a lot of the time I feel like the minute breaks get chopped, they keep some of the analog, live played vibe, but become something totally different. so many of the drums in this just maintain that sense of real, live, analog drums and mixed with the super digital sounds in the rest of the track, it's a joy.[/quote] it means a lot to me. I must say there's actually just ONE break in this song, based on a royalty free, 70's inspired acoustic drum made by the french band Kojak for a Future Music CD. The crunchiest one, sounding quite hissy and saturated, was built by me from individual hits on a Roland SP 404 mk2, abusing the resample feature. I usually conciously make a groove in, let's say, 90 bpms, and then, when cutting it to breaks, place it over a 88 bpm grid, so the alignment is not perfect, and then resample again in order to "fix" that wonkiness into the groove. If you really though there were more acoustic breaks in the track, then my technique is working. Anyway, thanks a lot for listening and the kind comments :) [img]https://media.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExcXhkbjNnZHN0anJxYnFqMHpqNGg1enpqdzgyaHR6enVkaHc3eDdiMSZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/3oEjHYRBtYSg4p0rqU/giphy.gif[/img] [quote=Kedbreak136]That beat is smooth and organic. I really like the sound you get out of the (sliced?) drum - it retains a reality to it while being cut. The other sounds add a surreal layer. Very interesting sound sculpture on this track![/quote] Thanks a lot, Kedbreak136 ! If you read my previous comment, I explain that I put a lot of effort in various layers of breaks and resampling. I usually force myself to start from the stallest, most boring hits, like a Roland R8 "human composer" drum machine, so I must add some groove somehow in order to escape the grid programming. Anyway, I'd love to be able to accompany those grooves with interesant melodies, though I'm lacking strongly in that department... I'm really grateful to you for listening and leaving such constructive comments :) [img]https://media.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExM3Z4ejc1N2NzZDl3MWp1eTY1YXdiZTJvbWhsaHNncWRrNnh6MnFkeiZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/Q1cR81dXkVbJm/giphy.gif[/img]

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February 12, 2024 4:02 pm

laguna

rplktr wrote:

This track was used in my Lofi Beats To Ponder Impermanence To.

I'm flattered you took inspiration from this one. Further comments in your track

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