#17

The playlist is rolling:

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#18

Norns + Shallow Water + Norns + op1 =

it’s quite a bit wonky, but was done in one quick take… so, i am more or less happy with it. :sweat_smile:

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#19

Well, I sure do :heart: this challenge!

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#20

I took a line from “Old Town Road” and deconstructed it in the spirit of Prefuse 73. I sliced it to MIDI and fingerdrummed around with it, then quantized my improvisation, found the best parts, looped them, and added Beat Repeat and delay. I put a simple 808 beat underneath it for rhythmic anchoring.

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#21

NON_SUBMISSION Hey All, I did another one. The 808 sounds were making me nostalgic. In my boombox days I was probably pumping out not very hip music such as Phil Collins “No Jacket Required” as you may be able tell. Samples sevenism’s great track.

Peace, Hugh

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#22

A tour through a number of genres of music done on the Roland TR-808. But not the usual suspects. I listened to tracks by Charanjit Singh, Nine Inch Nails, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Drexciya, and Aphex Twin for inspiration

Electronic track on the modular, 808 from various machines… software and hardware. Tabla, Tanpura, and space music via IOS apps.

Oh yeah, since it’s all about the numbers, I tried to use only euro- (kinda) Buchla equivalents in the patch.

258, 259, 266, 207, 257, 281, 292, 277… i.e. all the Sputnik stuff.

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#23

Hi All,

An 808 bass drum morphagene’d and filtered …

Have a great week!

h u :slight_smile:

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#24


I used a TR-8 for this project, not quite a TR 808 but allegedly close enough. Played around with different patterns, initially with a 3/4 pattern but it seemed lacking without a monolithic 4/4 808 kick. So this live take is the one, no other sound sources other than the TR-8 being mixed through Eventide Ultratap which made the toms all warbly and cowbelly.

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#25


Hello everyone. I downloaded two TR-808 samples - a kick and a snare - and started experimenting. I had to add a vinyl crackle effect to mask the pops and clicks that were introduced by the microtonal pitch shifts in the drones that weave around the drum beat. The only thing that I didn’t create in Audacity was the terrible Van Halen pun. (I only like their first album, I swear!!)

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#26

I used the free VSTs Cassette 808 and RVK-808 and the internal 808 core kit in Ableton Live plus some ambient field recordings to create my hommage to the legendary drum rhythm composer. The second half is more or less my attempt to use the congas as a melodic sequencer.

The TR-808 has an inscription called “computer controlled”, which I think is very funny… :wink:

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#27

I used Elliots Garage 808 app for the percussion. The drone comes from the Sub37. Ripplemaker provides the marimba-esque sound, and that’s me on the new Korg minilogue module on melody. The ship is in need of minor repairs, we are far from port and adrift, but survivability seems high:

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#29

I opened GarageBand on my MacBook Air, USB-cabled an iRig Keys to it and noodled around with the Boutique 808 drums, chopped and doubled up a couple of patterns I like, and doubled some tracks with bits of light distortion, delay and reverb. Toward the middle, I added a little overlapping Modwheel Sizzle, Silver Synth Saw and Outer Lands Synth.

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#30

I began wondering about the mixed reviews the drum machine got on release and how the “unrealistic” sound would become the defining character of the 808.

Thinking about the drum sounds I’ve shaped from various sources led me to look for the spirit of the 808 elsewhere.

You can see I didn’t look very far and revisited my recording of Narrandera’s Big Guitar.

The low rumble of the open string was perfect for the celebrated humming kick.

Then I listened for transients to fill the roles of snare and high-hat, before adding a few harmonics and notes.

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#31

I did a cover of Opening from Philip Glass for guitar, synths and 808 drums.

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#32

Disquiet 0397

My mother owned a dulcimer. Never played it.

The track starts out with a basic 808 beat. The second section of the track was created by manipulating the 808 output into a processed audio stream. The processed audio is then used as V/Oct input for the eventual synthesis by Mutable Instruments Rings.

Pre-process

  • Roland 808 > Squarp Hermod (clock)
  • Squarp Hermod > Noise Engineering Clep Diaz
  • Noise Engineering Clep Diaz > Make Noise QPAS
  • Roland 808 > Make Noise QPAS
  • Make Noise QPAS > Styrmon Magneto
  • Squarp Hermod > Noise Engineering Bin Seq
  • Noise Engineering Bin Seq > Erica Synths Black Quad VCA
  • Strymon Magneto > Noise Engineering Ataraxic Iteritas
  • Noise Engineering Ataraxic Iteritas > Erica Synths Black Quad VCA
  • Squarp Hermod > Grayscale Permutation
  • Grayscale Permutation > Noise Engineering Ataraxic Iteritas
  • Xaoc Devices Batumi > Noise Engineering Ataraxic Iteritas

Final synthesis

  • preprocess > Mutable Instruments Rings
  • Grayscale Permutation > Mutable Instruments Rings
  • Xaoc Devices Batumi > Mutable Instruments Rings

Wikipedia - “Although the Appalachian dulcimer first appeared in the early 19th century among Scotch-Irish immigrant communities in the Appalachian Mountains, the instrument has no known precedent in Ireland or Scotland. Because of this, and a dearth of written records, the history of the Appalachian dulcimer has been, until fairly recently, largely speculative. Since 1980, more extensive research has traced the instrument’s development through several distinct periods, and likely origins in several similar European instruments: the Swedish hummel, the Norwegian langeleik, the German scheitholt, and the French épinette des Vosges.”

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#33

My contribution, an interpretation of James Tenney’s “Having Never Written a Note for Percussion (for John Bergamo)”, performed on a TR-808 Snare drum through Eventide effects.

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#34

Norns @Justmat foulplay, built in 808 samples> ableton @andrew max dirge and grain delay. That was fun! :slight_smile:

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#35

This started out as an observation that “808” has two lines of symmetry. I recorded the Amen Break using a sampled emulation of the 808. I split the recording into separate left and right channels then reversed them, flipped them vertically and flipped the reverse, giving me eight separate samples to play with.

My original track was well overlong but I’d added some resonators to the final few minutes and really liked the effect. I shortened the track dramatically but kept the resonators.

The track starts with the flipped forward samples and ends with the flipped reverse samples having transitioned through the reversed and forward break on the way.

The frequency flipping was done with Photosounder. All frequencies up to 20kHz were flipped vertically. This is what introduces the “underwater” sound at the start of the track. All the remaining processing was done in Ableton Live.

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#36

Wowsers, you took that a totally different direction than I was expecting! A very well made track, especially in such a short time. Love how the vocal goes from Placebo-esque at the start to death metal growl near the end.

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#37

I played this one pretty straight but it also gave me a chance to use some samples I had from old timey LSD experiments. Created this afternoon using Rhythm studio and Samplr on IPad. Went in a very 80s direction. https://soundcloud.com/mike-88/i-wish-i-could-talk-in

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