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Scrambled

By Sub Delay on November 2, 2014 1:17 am

Visiting extended family in Yamanashi and in between meeting people and gorging on Japanese food, it's been pretty hard to find time for music...in fact, I'm pretty sure I committed great shame when I had to retire to a separate room for a bit to get this week's track done big_smile

Couple of days earlier I bought the Volca Beats and Keys (they're a bit cheaper in Tokyo than in Copenhagen) and had an hour or so to play around with them. Apart from a few random things I recorded of me tapping on things in the room I'm in, all the source material in this track are from that session. Love those Korg analog toys!

The bit at the end is me accidentally recording myself realizing I had left the Microtrack on "pause" for 30 mins while playing around with a Japanese "Koto" string instrument...will have to come back to that. Seemed to fit my frustration at not being able to make this track work so threw it in smile

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November 6, 2014 9:54 am

Perplex On

wonderful! i can't help but nodding the whole track. You've managed to integrate the random ambient recordings just so well. I admire your skills on the volcas. In fact your work inspired me to get a Volca bass the other day, but i have yet to play around and get familiar with it. What are you using to sequence it (onboard sequencer or abletons midi plugins etc.).
The ending is hilarious smile

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November 7, 2014 5:31 am

cfurrow

This is fantastic. and it's got the sub delay sound all over it. I love what you did with the beats.

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November 7, 2014 10:15 pm

Plantrain

Brilliant track, a great groove to this, and a lot of very nice details! Impressive use of the volcas!

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November 15, 2014 5:37 pm

Sub Delay

Perplex On wrote:

In fact your work inspired me to get a Volca bass the other day, but i have yet to play around and get familiar with it. What are you using to sequence it (onboard sequencer or abletons midi plugins etc.).

Hahaa, great!! I hope you get as much enjoyment from it as I have smile
To sequence it I often just use Ableton's "External Instrument" , but I also sometimes sync up the Volca's own sequencer or even just play the "keys" directly! The fact that the Volca's have MIDI inputs is a huge plus over the Monotribe which I used to "sync" manually by tweaking the tempo knob and pressing start at the right time smile Now I can sync that _through_ the volcas using MIDI and the CV outputs!

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November 21, 2014 5:53 am

Jason Nijjer

Great momentum to this track, you can't help but keep moving to this

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December 29, 2014 4:45 pm

laguna

I've had the Volcas for a little longer than you, but I'm still amazed of your skill fitting those monophonic instruments in the mix. Sheer talent + experience in the Monotribe?. +1 for the great ending

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