Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
By muhamor on April 5, 2026 11:48 pm
Hi hi, thanks for stopping by!
It's been another busy week, and I'm continuing to prep for my live M8 set next weekend. This track was based on an 8-bar loop from last week and put together in a couple of hours on Sunday 
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› Production notes
‹ Production notes
The core of this track is the PETAL_173 break from the excellent Fayt Kit. It's got a really nice build throughout where the drums become more high-pitched and tinny over time. In week 13, I stretched it down to 124bpm on the m8 via the REP. BPM play mode and thought it sounded pretty fun with some pads. This week, I rendered the stretched break to a new sample and then sliced it into 64 equal parts that I could use for different drums. I sampled drums from the start of the break for a more thumpy bass sound and drums from later parts of the break for a higher-energy sound. Prior to this track I haven't really thought a ton about sampling breaks, so it was fun to play around and learn some new things.
A few more straightforward elements:
- Reese bass
- pads are Macrosynth's WAV PARPHONIC mode with a bunch of effects
- sometimes I layer the break drums with non-sampled/hand-programmed drum pattern
- the title is "Standing on the Shoulders of Giants" because that's what it feels like to use a good breakbeat
Hope everyone's weeklybeats is going well! You're all killing it, and I'm digging all the music that I get to listen to every week 
