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.
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