Lock in the Groove and Send in the Flutes

Ugh, not much time this week. Working overtime and ran out time.

This week I wanted to try something different. When sampling, I usually try to get a pretty smooth sound--looping bars of a song and layering different sounds over it to create something. I wanted to try working with smaller snippets of sound, and limit myself to a single source.

I sampled the first 16 seconds and then 16 seconds from later in this track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2cDrWYnjaY

I sliced everything into individual hits--bass notes, kicks and snares, flutes, rhodes--and re-sequenced everything. This was a pretty different way of working for me, but it was quite fun. I'll certainly try this in the future.

I wish it had some wavy synth and some vocal samples, but since I was limiting myself to one sample source, I didn't have access to anything that was satisfactory. Though, I guess I could have turned a snippet into a single-cycle waveform and created a synth sound that way. But, ran out of time.

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