#11

03:01, eyes are burning, on call and probably spent way too much time on this.
Details when brain begins functioning again :-/
https://soundcloud.com/hypoidsound/torment-kit-disquiet0345
Torment Kit (disquiet0345)

Later the next day…

With an excellent prompt on one of my favorite parts of music making, you’d think piece of cake. Well maybe that’s the problem, I love kits, drums, rhythms, pads and most anything percussive in nature. It was my first instrument and still plays a large role in most of what I do. So it’s possible a little too much enthusiasm and importance was put into this kit. I had thought of using one of the many already in my arsenal, but thought that wasn’t in the spirit of this weeks Junto. Opening my recorded samples folder started the process.

The Torment Kit:

Kick -

1st layer - Dead blow hammer on tire w/compressor, eq and fuzz

2nd layer - cardboard box hit w/eq

3rd layer - unlabeled field recording on some machine w/eq

Snare -

1st layer - metal bucket hit w/enhancer and eq

2nd layer - plastic jug hit w/eq

HiHat closed -

1st layer - container full of metal parts hit

2nd layer - drumstick hit on sheetmetal

HiHat open -

1st layer - dropped lid w/eq

2nd layer - metal box cover w/eq

Clap - breaking stuff w/eq

Crash -

1st layer - kitchen utensils w/enhancer and eq

2nd layer - broken heating coil hit w/eq

Weird hit - unknown field recording w/chorus

Tom - finished kick transposed w/eq

Each kit sound was made in Cubasis, mixed down and sent to Audioshare, trimmed and normalized for use in any sampler or DAW kit.

The entire kit was given a small drum room overhead mic reverb and levels were mostly equaled out with all panned center where recordings allowed.

The Song:

Of course the obvious choice was going to be very beat driven, so the above sounds were brought into Patterning 2 for a custom kit perfect for live manipulation! A 4/4 135 bpm file was created and live pad view opened. It started innocently enough, but went out of control into a 10:00 jam with ratcheting counts and delays and tunings and swing all being messed with. It got ugly and noisy. Perfect, but too long and dull for normal consumption, so the best bits were sent to play with a raucous Sunrizer patch. And crickets. And a badly done building chorus. All with overdriven amp patches and distortion and noise. You get the drift. It was late, the beat sounded good and it all went wrong :wink: If anybody is using Patterning and interested, I can try uploading?

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#12

https://soundcloud.com/forcedamage/disquiet0345-sample-time

This one started and ended differently. I started by using the modular to synthesize a bunch of electro-dubby percussion, but then samples some Rhodes notes in with the idea of doing… something. But then I got carried away with re-pitching, stretching, and composing the rhodes samples into something more, and then the “other” drums I made just sounded like bad late 90s chill-out, so I erased those, synthesized a new kick on the modular, and stripped down the rings samples I had been working with.

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#13

https://soundcloud.com/ohm-research/7to7-disquiet-0345
A minimal drum machine, consisting of a kick and a snare(ish).

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#14

For the past several months, I’ve had to put music aside because I was completing a software dev bootcamp, and I’ve been bittersweetly watching these projects accumulate in my inbox. Coincidentally, this week I finished (yay!) AND the theme is literally one of the projects I’ve been working on. It still needs a lot of work, but wanted to share…
http://www.jamaicafredericks.com/miniRhythm/

Would love any feedback and ideas :slight_smile:
Thanks~

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#15

Congratulations, fun stuff! Played around for a bit on the compy, but sadly didn’t work on the iPad :disappointed_relieved: Not sure of implementation, but adjustable BPM would be cool :sunglasses:

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#16

Thanks!!! Yeah right now it’s only implemented to recognize mouse clicks. (Touch recognition is a whole different thing.) Volume, tempo, and swing adjustments are hopefully coming very soon!

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#17

My drum machine sounds were all recorded 2011-3, when I was making music with playgrounds in and around Leeton for the centenary of that town.
An album of those recordings can be found here.

You can see the two different types of contact microphones that I used, one the cheap clamp-style sort usually used for instrument tuners and the other were piezo sensors placed on matchsticks.

There’s an overview of how to make the latter here.

It’s been interesting to revisit the playgrounds. I should record more.

I’ve uploaded my track here if anyone wants to use my sounds for the Junto next week.

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#18

https://soundcloud.com/morgulbee/kitchen-sinkology-disquiet0345

Kitchen Sinkology is a trio for violin, cello, and a drum kit sampled from nearly two dozen sounds in my kitchen. Knives chopping, cabinet doors opening and closing, oven and microwaves beeping, pots clanging, aluminum cans crunching, plastic bags rustling, and more. All these sounds are in the drum kit but not all made it into the final mix.

The drum patterns I used were borrowed and tweaked from the MIDI clips included in several Ableton Live add-on packs. I tried to keep the violin and cello parts relatively simple to allow the listener to hear more of the percussion parts.

For those interested in using my drum samples, the audition at the beginning plays the dry samples in General MIDI note order starting at C1 (Bass Drum). Assigning the kit to a GM-mapped drum sequence stands a pretty good chance of sounding decent.

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#19

I initially recorded a bunch of modular synth percussion patches but I didn’t find them very exciting. So I recorded a coin spinning, a cow bell, hittings two sticks together, a crunchy noise, a rattle, some cables knocking on a mic stand, a thumb piano and a few bangs and scrapes on my gong. I also ended up using an 808 kick.

For the tune I added some gas bottle percussion and guitar and then doused everything in a lot of delay and reverb. Getting the samples tuned and eq’d to sit right was a bit tricky. Not really a sing a long, maybe it could work for a scene in a film.

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#20

used the infinite drum machine ( https://experiments.withgoogle.com/ai/drum-machine/view/ ) to get 16 random sounds - things like human grunt, cardboard box, cloth on concrete, compressed air burst, tambourine, dog woof.

had these running through iris 2 at high and low freqs with ddly and ozone imager. a duplicate track with increasing arpeggiator rate and electronica filtering

been thinking about superorganisms and wanted to give this a sense of something like an ant colony

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#21

Nice stuff. Reminds me a little of the Penguin Cafe.

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#22

I wasn’t terribly inspired this week, but I wanted to get going agaIn after a long absence so I just did what I could. For the samples, I plugged in a contact mic with lots of gain and touched various things with it, then chopped up my recording and edited some of the sounds in Ableton Live. I ended up with 7 samples I found interesting enough, which you can hear at the beginning of the track. As for the rest of the track: I wasn’t terribly inspired to make music either, so it is what it is.

https://soundcloud.com/user-863178836-956583768/disquiet0345-sample-time

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#23

https://soundcloud.com/vgmrmojo/give-the-samples-some-disquiet0345

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#24

https://soundcloud.com/triermusic/tindr-but-for-tubas-disquiet-0345

I wanted sounds that were not drumset-ish, but came from one thing. Eventually I made use of a tuba! I spent some time clanging, tapping, and squeaking, more or less with an idea what sound would be the kick, what sound would be the snare, but also experimenting, and also losing track of where I was in the process).

I wanted an Autechre-ish “stream of percussion,” so I experimented with using Ableton’s arpeggiate command on the percussion sounds. It created some good results, but it took a lot of finagling to figure out how to make the MIDI notes random but also constrained to the note values that trigger the drum samples (as opposed to flying up and down the 1-128 note range…)

You can see the FX chain here:

[Album] Ridonkulous MIDI FX Chain

(I think I may have created some redundancy with the scale plug-in).

I copied the melody to the drum tracks, and set up an FX web so that every note of the melody triggered the “kick” sample (which was my palm banging on the mouthpiece of the tuba).

Every note also triggered a cavalcade of percussion - but this track was gated to be silent when the “kick” track played.

The results were generally good, but a little beyond my control - in other words, satisfying!

The melody is played on a sample of the lowest note of the tuba, and doubled by an Ableton synth. It’s an atonal melody (I’m getting ready to teach a unit on atonality in the fall), everything is a variation on the initial cell of {3 1 8}.

Here’s my scrawled score, for those who are into that sort of thing:

[Album] Disquiet 0345 - Sample Time

This project really made me learn a lot more about Ableton drumsets and MIDI fx!

Here’s the link to download the drumset:
drive.google.com/open?id=1qvJdYGD…7QVvLH9zbY4OXYSX

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#25

https://soundcloud.com/sarmism/disquiet0345-sample-time-modular-ryddm

Drum sounds are all samples from my eurorack modular. They range from pure, completely patched-from-scratch sounds to using drum modules such as Basimilus Iteritas Alter and Akemie’s Taiko.

I sampled them into my Synthstrom Deluge, then created a track around them with the internal synths of the Deluge.

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#26

Great title (that exceeds 20 characters)!

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#27

Here’s mine: https://soundcloud.com/plusch/116bpm-beatdisquiet0345

For the kit, I used Geist2 to slice and reshape bits of a previous recording, which was created using Glitchmachines’ Cataract to scan through and manipulate other previously recorded audio. Then I programmed some patterns in Geist2 and spliced together parts that I liked.

https://soundcloud.com/plusch/116bpm-beatdisquiet0345

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#28

https://soundcloud.com/steph-175/disquiet0345-drum-machine

My approach for this challenge was to create each component and particular sound of my desired drum machine from my monophonic analogue synthesizer followed by performing a Jam around a piece of a track.

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#29

https://soundcloud.com/pil-belgium/pil-let-kick-the-bass-disquiet0345

Very exciting project this week !

Best drum machine for me are analog synth. So I used a Dave Smith MEK to make a kick bass. So I can modulate it with almost infinite possibilities.

Then I made a little live jam with only the MEK and just a reverb in ableton. This is the raw output of this jam.

If only I could have 10 MEKs so I could jam live with a complete drum kit.

There is the starting bass kick at the beginning, but the entire track could be sliced to make drums samples.

Enjoy,
PiL

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#30

https://soundcloud.com/gbel/sample-jonzies-disquiet0345

Spent a lot of time on my eurorack rig making as many drum patches as I could! It all started with an Enveloped Dixie 2 and ended up with a 0-Coast Snare.

Try to jam with it all patched but did not like the result so Sampled it all into the Digitakt and brought the analogfour to jam on top of it.

A lot of fun on this one.

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