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sequential disarray

By sd_falter on January 9, 2026 1:23 am

i like to flip between a couple of processes when making beats. last week was i guess a more structured approach -- making a bassline, then some keys, then a beat, then harriedly uploading to weeklybeats because i didn't check deadlines and had no time to finesse anything.

this time i just keyed in a bunch of polymeter sequences into patterning, routed them into various sound generators in the modular, tweaked knobs until stuff sounded ok-ish. then bounced it to ableton and added a beat, some atmos-y sounds and some acid. then finessed till i got sick of it and exported. i kinda like this approach as you have to hamfistedly shove a bunch of bleepy bloops into some kind of structure after the fact and it can be a surprise when the beat anchors everything else together.

Pretty dope electro jam you got here

At some point it is like the night rider theme, but then a more interesting version of it. Very chill track. I was clapping my oven gloves to the beat tongue.

for some reason I just ended up focusing on the repetitive bloopy isochronic tone kind of sound at the end. I dunno, sort of sounds like a 303 with the cutoff turned down and not squelching

DJ Saint-Hubert wrote:

for some reason I just ended up focusing on the repetitive bloopy isochronic tone kind of sound at the end. I dunno, sort of sounds like a 303 with the cutoff turned down and not squelching

yep thats prretty much what it was. i was looking at this as a bit of a intro style track for a mix or set and was happy to just let that line just drone on fairly unchanged as it would be blending out to another track.

The initial soundscape was great (and the effects later kept that up), but adding a beat really adds something.  I guess it's easy to trick my brain that everything is structured

ineff wrote:

The initial soundscape was great (and the effects later kept that up), but adding a beat really adds something.  I guess it's easy to trick my brain that everything is structured

yeh its definitely one of the things i really dig about messing with patterning as a sequencer. everything is still synced to a master clock but you can really go off-grid with the way things loop around, and once you add a beat it ties it all back together. i'll definitely do some deeper explorations of this as the year goes on as this isn't necessarily the best example of how much it can mess w yr brain (in enjoyable ways!)

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