Ok, this is a bit scarey as it looks like Melondruie and I have been in some kind of unwitting mind-meld by covering each other’s tracks…
I started by feeding Melondruie’s original track through two different instances of modulated wave-shaping/filtering/frequency-shifting/ring modulation in Absynth, then gated them and sent them through arcdev’s ET-301 delay unit set to different delay times with modulation of the tone and resonance. Got some cool dubby glitchy sounds but they were a bit chaotic on their own. After some exploration, I found a two-bar loop in Xpand’s ‘Loops for Pads’ section that I played around with running through Gatekeeper and got lucky and found a groove I was happy with. I then ran this through a modulated instance of Cableguy’s Halftime with some compression and another instance of Gatekeeper to slightly mess it around a bit more. I think it keeps the rhythm going OK and makes a decent backbone for the dubbyish glitchy sounds.
Really glad I’m able to join in this project this year. If there was any MO to my approach, it was probably vaguely contrarian, i.e. what does a gently sonorous looping ambient track need? Why, a spiky glitchy rhythm track of course! I’m actually pretty pleased with the result.