nice vibe, i dig it! keep the 808 beats coming

nice vibe, i dig it! keep the 808 beats coming :)

love me an 808!

love me an 808!

This one has a nice sense of purpose, would be a great one to put on while working. Could see it in a movie for sure. The choral vocal slaps, love the switchups in the delay timing.

This one has a nice sense of purpose, would be a great one to put on while working. Could see it in a movie for sure. The choral vocal slaps, love the switchups in the delay timing.

this is badass! I like the overall vibe and that choir/vocal sound is freaking cool. I wasn't bored at all. I felt like it gradually pushed the piece forward in an organic way.

As an aside in drum machine land, I have an RD9 that sounds great and the individual outs are super useful. The user interface for basic things like copy/paste and song mode are irritating though haha. The RD8 sounds excellent in this track for sure!

this is badass! I like the overall vibe and that choir/vocal sound is freaking cool. I wasn't bored at all. I felt like it gradually pushed the piece forward in an organic way. As an aside in drum machine land, I have an RD9 that sounds great and the individual outs are super useful. The user interface for basic things like copy/paste and song mode are irritating though haha. The RD8 sounds excellent in this track for sure!

This whole song sounded really dope! i think there's enough variation, it didn't really get stale. Dig the homophony of using an 808 cowbell chromatically and the outro with the regular cowbell featured so prominently was a solid move.

This whole song sounded really dope! i think there's enough variation, it didn't really get stale. Dig the homophony of using an 808 cowbell chromatically and the outro with the regular cowbell featured so prominently was a solid move.

Bubbly! Really love this texture. And when those choir pads hit, it's just gorgeous. Great stuff!

Bubbly! Really love this texture. And when those choir pads hit, it's just gorgeous. Great stuff! :D

The way it faaallls into the track is so nice. Cowbells for the win. Cant go wrong!

The way it faaallls into the track is so nice. Cowbells for the win. Cant go wrong!

Hey, thanks a lot. I still, for better or worse, have some more 808 (and 606!) beats stored in the cellar. They just need some love and be warmed on the microwave at medium power

Hahaha... 808s and 606s never dissapoint. I'd love to get into the LinnDrum and DMX sound, though is not that addictive IMHO.

Thanks for listening and dropping by !!!

Thanks a lot, man!!! It makes me happy to hear that you're digging it. As I commented on the description, it started as a quite "I don't know what to do after this" kinda track, so I'm glad people likes the overall result.

Hey, man!! Really nice to see you back again this year. I really dig the RD8 and would love to have an RD9, but I don't have the desk space even for one drum machine, so every time I use it is either recording the mono output or using so many cables plus an extra mixer on the floor/be... and setting the whole thing out absolutely kills the vibe.

Lately I decided I'd just mess with it ultra wet and dirty, because I made several sample kits of it. If I want "clean individual outputs" I use the sampled RD8, otherwise I have fun and create mono loops.

Also I've discovered this : if you take a copy of your monoaural recording, use some heavy EQ / high pass / band pass filtering and then invert the polarity on one of the audio channels of said copy, all kinds of phasing cancellations occur so you have "automatic stereo dynamic drum machine" with almost no effort

The RD8 cowbell is usually tuned slightly lower than most of the classic TR808s. It is in G or A, not very sure at the moment. It can be tuned after some tinkering and it's usually the most striking difference between the 2 boxes.

Anyway, since I included one "clean" version of the beat, providing most of the driving beat, and a "very wet" version providing all the "dubby atmosphere"... man, after 3 or 4 days hearing the loop the constant "ring ring" of the cowbell, no matter the tune, gets into your nerves.

That was the main reason behind the chromatically-tuned cowbell. Future Sound of London did it better and way before me... though the sound never gets old, IMHO.

Thanks a lot for listening and dropping some comments. Really appreciated !!!

Hey, LevelCapybara !!! Really nice to see you again !!!

Thanks a lot for the compliments. I'm really proud of the choir part. It's one of those sounds that in the right moment could uplift a whole track, and maybe the most valuable element of the old (sorry... "classic") E-MU Emulator sound library. I added some tremolo to avoid sounding too pastiche.

Hahaha Thanks a lot, Tom. I'm happy you liked my little overuse of the 808.

I did, in fact, a whole song dedicated to the REAL cowbell, even sampling Christopher Walken and his "more cowbell" skit, if you're into it

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[quote=lasko303]nice vibe, i dig it! keep the 808 beats coming :)[/quote] Hey, thanks a lot. I still, for better or worse, have some more 808 (and 606!) beats stored in the cellar. They just need some love and be warmed on the microwave at medium power :) [quote=mzunguko]love me an 808![/quote] Hahaha... 808s and 606s never dissapoint. I'd love to get into the LinnDrum and DMX sound, though is not that addictive IMHO. Thanks for listening and dropping by !!! [quote=2haf]This one has a nice sense of purpose, would be a great one to put on while working. Could see it in a movie for sure. The choral vocal slaps, love the switchups in the delay timing. [/quote] Thanks a lot, man!!! It makes me happy to hear that you're digging it. As I commented on the description, it started as a quite "I don't know what to do after this" kinda track, so I'm glad people likes the overall result. [quote=roboctopus]this is badass! I like the overall vibe and that choir/vocal sound is freaking cool. I wasn't bored at all. I felt like it gradually pushed the piece forward in an organic way. As an aside in drum machine land, I have an RD9 that sounds great and the individual outs are super useful. The user interface for basic things like copy/paste and song mode are irritating though haha. The RD8 sounds excellent in this track for sure![/quote] Hey, man!! Really nice to see you back again this year. I really dig the RD8 and would love to have an RD9, but I don't have the desk space even for one drum machine, so every time I use it is either recording the mono output or using so many cables plus an extra mixer on the floor/be... and setting the whole thing out absolutely kills the vibe. Lately I decided I'd just mess with it ultra wet and dirty, because I made several sample kits of it. If I want "clean individual outputs" I use the sampled RD8, otherwise I have fun and create mono loops. Also I've discovered this : if you take a copy of your monoaural recording, use some heavy EQ / high pass / band pass filtering and then invert the polarity on one of the audio channels of said copy, all kinds of phasing cancellations occur so you have "automatic stereo dynamic drum machine" with almost no effort :) [quote=N_ronvaldez]This whole song sounded really dope! i think there's enough variation, it didn't really get stale. Dig the homophony of using an 808 cowbell chromatically and the outro with the regular cowbell featured so prominently was a solid move.[/quote] The RD8 cowbell is usually tuned slightly lower than most of the classic TR808s. It is in G or A, not very sure at the moment. It can be tuned after some tinkering and it's usually the most striking difference between the 2 boxes. Anyway, since I included one "clean" version of the beat, providing most of the driving beat, and a "very wet" version providing all the "dubby atmosphere"... man, after 3 or 4 days hearing the loop the constant "ring ring" of the cowbell, no matter the tune, gets into your nerves. That was the main reason behind the chromatically-tuned cowbell. Future Sound of London did it better and way before me... though the sound never gets old, IMHO. Thanks a lot for listening and dropping some comments. Really appreciated !!! [quote=levelcapybara]Bubbly! Really love this texture. And when those choir pads hit, it's just gorgeous. Great stuff! :D[/quote] Hey, LevelCapybara !!! Really nice to see you again !!! Thanks a lot for the compliments. I'm really proud of the choir part. It's one of those sounds that in the right moment could uplift a whole track, and maybe the most valuable element of the old (sorry... "classic") E-MU Emulator sound library. I added some tremolo to avoid sounding too pastiche. [quote=Abludo]The way it faaallls into the track is so nice. Cowbells for the win. Cant go wrong![/quote] Hahaha Thanks a lot, Tom. I'm happy you liked my little overuse of the 808. I did, in fact, a whole song dedicated to the REAL cowbell, even [url=https://weeklybeats.com/laguna/music/diamond-sound]sampling Christopher Walken and his "more cowbell" skit[/url], if you're into it :) [youtube]

808 soundtracks would be wild, would love to hear that.  The beat is so smooth on this one, carrying the track along, I do feel there is enough variation, the length of this feels fine to me, never felt stale.  I do miss those sample cd's from the 90's and early 2000's, I still probably have some lying around, however no longer have a computer with a cd drive.

808 soundtracks would be wild, would love to hear that. The beat is so smooth on this one, carrying the track along, I do feel there is enough variation, the length of this feels fine to me, never felt stale. I do miss those sample cd's from the 90's and early 2000's, I still probably have some lying around, however no longer have a computer with a cd drive.

loving the continued 808 sound. this is a great drum pattern to boot. always love a tuned 808 cowbell! this one is super smooth and vibey. the squelchy rezzo bass with the choir is just like TV intro sequence heaven, know what I mean? This song feels like it makes promises for what's to come somehow. Again, real good drums and love the general sound on this track!

loving the continued 808 sound. this is a great drum pattern to boot. always love a tuned 808 cowbell! this one is super smooth and vibey. the squelchy rezzo bass with the choir is just like TV intro sequence heaven, know what I mean? This song feels like it makes promises for what's to come somehow. Again, real good drums and love the general sound on this track!

My first reply to this comment got lost because of internet DNS failure so...

I'm really glad you dig this one, Jason. Now it sounds better to me, but the hours I was making it I heard that loop so many times... I needed to let it sit for a while

Please have a look at this excellent compilation of sampling material from the mid 90s. You could find all the classics : Vinilystics, Zero G Data Files, Jungle Warfare, the Coldcut CDs... Brace yourself for a surprise because almost 30 years after you'll realize how many famous tracks they were ripping and trying to sell as "royalty free" for their own profit.

Guess back in the day we were more innocent, more ignorant and didn't have Shazam at hand

Most of them are audio CDs and WAV, but there are some AKAI ones. I personally use Linux, though there are excellent free tools to read them. Anyway, if you want to go into the rabbit hole of old sampling formats, drop me a line.

Oh, way back in the 90s the "Lifeforms" album by The Future Sound of London was the first time I consciously remember hearing the 808 cowbell used as a melodic instrument. Since then, it's one of my preferred sounds. So simple, yet so fitting.

It's great to hear you dig the bass. It is really just pure FM with a really short 1/16th delay and almost no feedback.

And yeah, since you mention it, it would be great to imagine the choir part over something like the intro to the AMC show "Halt and Catch Fire"... would be a nice dream.

Thanks for those compliments and for listening, Scottux. Really appreciated.

[quote=Jason Nijjer]808 soundtracks would be wild, would love to hear that. The beat is so smooth on this one, carrying the track along, I do feel there is enough variation, the length of this feels fine to me, never felt stale. I do miss those sample cd's from the 90's and early 2000's, I still probably have some lying around, however no longer have a computer with a cd drive.[/quote] My first reply to this comment got lost because of internet DNS failure so... I'm really glad you dig this one, Jason. Now it sounds better to me, but the hours I was making it I heard that loop so many times... I needed to let it sit for a while ;) Please have a look at [url=https://archive.org/details/retro-sample-cds]this excellent compilation of sampling material from the mid 90s[/url]. You could find all the classics : Vinilystics, Zero G Data Files, Jungle Warfare, the Coldcut CDs... Brace yourself for a surprise because almost 30 years after you'll realize how many famous tracks they were ripping and trying to sell as "royalty free" for their own profit. Guess back in the day we were more innocent, more ignorant and didn't have Shazam at hand :) Most of them are audio CDs and WAV, but there are some AKAI ones. I personally use Linux, though there are excellent free tools to read them. Anyway, if you want to go into the rabbit hole of old sampling formats, drop me a line. [quote=scottux]loving the continued 808 sound. this is a great drum pattern to boot. always love a tuned 808 cowbell! this one is super smooth and vibey. the squelchy rezzo bass with the choir is just like TV intro sequence heaven, know what I mean? This song feels like it makes promises for what's to come somehow. Again, real good drums and love the general sound on this track![/quote] Oh, way back in the 90s the "Lifeforms" album by The Future Sound of London was the first time I consciously remember hearing the 808 cowbell used as a melodic instrument. Since then, it's one of my preferred sounds. So simple, yet so fitting. It's great to hear you dig the bass. It is really just pure FM with a really short 1/16th delay and almost no feedback. And yeah, since you mention it, it would be great to imagine the choir part over something like the intro to the AMC show "Halt and Catch Fire"... would be a nice dream. Thanks for those compliments and for listening, Scottux. Really appreciated.

excellent beat and groove, loving that 808 sound but especially enjoying that dark bassy arp sound.  The choir gave me some Ulrich Schnauss vibes \m/ Love that FSOL album too and I hear the influence with the drums and cowbell.  Nice work!

excellent beat and groove, loving that 808 sound but especially enjoying that dark bassy arp sound. The choir gave me some Ulrich Schnauss vibes \m/ Love that FSOL album too and I hear the influence with the drums and cowbell. Nice work!

Well, if you own drum machines, you should use drum machines. And an analog 808 is always welcome. I'm also trying to understand why anyone would like to remove cowbell. As we all know you can never have enough cowbell. Especially such nicely tuned and melodic. If the track had to be structured around it, so be it. It became the lead of the song.

In the end this is excellent trip hop. No notes, five stars.

Well, if you own drum machines, you should use drum machines. And an analog 808 is always welcome. I'm also trying to understand why anyone would like to remove cowbell. As we all know you can never have enough cowbell. Especially such nicely tuned and melodic. If the track had to be structured around it, so be it. It became the lead of the song. In the end this is excellent trip hop. No notes, five stars.

que bela viagem! Gracias! Trippy one i must say. Bassy on the eardrums too.
Saudações de Portugal! Hasta!!! 

[quote=RPLKTR]Well, if you own drum machines, you should use drum machines. And an analog 808 is always welcome. I'm also trying to understand why anyone would like to remove cowbell. As we all know you can never have enough cowbell. Especially such nicely tuned and melodic. If the track had to be structured around it, so be it. It became the lead of the song. In the end this is excellent trip hop. No notes, five stars.[/quote] que bela viagem! ;) Gracias! Trippy one i must say. Bassy on the eardrums too. Saudações de Portugal! Hasta!!! :)

I love the way you use the 808, it's not "traditional" so it actually feels pretty fresh

cool vibe throughout!

I love the way you use the 808, it's not "traditional" so it actually feels pretty fresh cool vibe throughout!

i liked it right away good stuff!

i liked it right away good stuff!