Hacking Away At ICE
By ModuLoBro on February 1, 2026 6:18 pm
All sounds come from a couple iPhone recordings of me and my wife clearing our driveway of snow that was covered by an ugly 1/2-inch layer of ICE, which nobody likes. Hi-jinx and some cool textures ensued.
At 1:56 there's a stutter effect followed by the original recording for fun.
Nothing revealed itself as melodic, so I stuck with percussion. I WISH there had been something as endearing as the microwave beep in last week's piece, but alas, no.
I didn't have a ton of time due to all sorts of weather-related complications - like trying to get our dog to poop on ICE. She learned eventually. But I finished it, and I like it well enough.
As for my WeeBeats '26 mission of learning the Deluge better, I didn't pick a particular thing to explore but still caught some interesting notes:
I knew that a kit allows you to mute and unmute individual voices during playback. I learned this week, however, that the Del doesn't permit this when recording from Song -> Arranger. That meant that a one-bar drum pattern that I wanted to build up over several measures by unmuting stuff live, I had to just precompose into a long clip instead. Disappointing spontaneity-killer.
I apparently nudged the Clock in the Arranger without realizing it - oops. So that's something to watch out for. Corrected it easily but was mystified for a minute!
Let's keep hacking away, siblings and niblings.
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