Good! Approve.
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Awesome challenge, so interesting to think about creating music this way. I realized how looooooooong it takes to set things up
made me go for the monomachine first time this month
I got super excited, this is my first try, I tried a couple more times and it didnāt get any betterā¦ oops
I deleted this after posting last night, thinking the video (and the sound-clipping) was just too bad. This morning I thought I should put it back, the first Monomachine on the challenge allows itself for some old-amateur-youtube vibes, right?
(fixed a bit the audio, now itās proper stereo, before I was distracted and accidentally did a terrible mono sum with delay -_-)
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Just been listening to the stuff submitted so far and itās been really enlightening and enjoyable for a slew of reasons. Despte the fact itās a school night, i decided to indulge in a bottle of beer and made some notes along the way as I watch them all. Hopefully this isnāt wanky indulgence to shareā¦
@lopodyr - yeah, so your first attempt was fascinating. the extreme rush to record, transfer and then the fine tuning on the M:S almost seemed to lend itself to a loose, organic vibe. iāll definitely need to experiment with really roughly trimmed samples in the future. onto your second goā¦ and in many ways itās more accomplished than the first, but there was something appealing the wonkiness of the first. nevertheless, there were bits i enjoyed. the vocal sample when brought down in the mix, filtered and reverbed (thatās an actual word) was pretty sweet.
@fin25 - setting aside that the M:C balanced on top of another keyboard was causing chaos with my sense of order in the worldā¦ that was a pretty solid effort for such a short time. especially the bassline, i know that repetition legitimises and all that but it felt less static than it had any right to. I worried when you brough the kick in that it was going to ruin it but you brought it back to nice underlying pulse that played off the bass.
@raku - fair play for starting from scratch with the DNā¦ the instruments which have a āmachineā paradigm have got a clear advantage here. getting the kick and snare/hat aspects as refined as they were so quick was cool - no sure I couldāve managed that. but I think the part i found most intriguing was towards the end when you were tweaking the āleadā part and you happened across some real nice tonalities in there.
@unifono - obviously your 5 mins shows just how powerful the step sequencing mode and having a good sense melodic interplay can be for getting something lush sounding up and running quickly can be. highlight for me was around about the 3ish minute mark when youāre tweaking the chord programming - not sure if you were randomising the page but it got me thinking that plocking the algorithim on chords as a song moves between sections could be quite a nice compositional idea.
@waftlord - superb! apologies if i misinterpret what you were doing in places but there was a lot to take inā¦ the sampled recorder seemed to do double duty on both organic ambience and slightly glitchy rhythmic accent - i really enjoyed how that interacted with the various dubby elements. thereās a lesson for us all in there about spending time learning a device rather than chasing the newest bit of GASā¦
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Thanks for the feedback.
Thereās something slightly odd about the M:C that Iāve never really been able to figure out. It manages to pull off the trick of sounding almost unstable like the best analogue does. I think itās something to do with the way the distortion works, but Iāve also found itās more pronounced if you feed it really hot into your mixer. FM really is at its best when you introduce a bit of uncertainty and a fair bit of grit. Get that right and any old loop can sound pretty decent. Luckily, the M:C makes it super easy to achieve both in seconds.
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I want to say ESS said this had something to do with the gain staging and headroom being lower VS the Digi boxes so it is really easy to get this nice internal clipping type effect happening. It is almost a compression like thing, but wellā¦ different 
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thank you!
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Thanks for your kindness haha.
In the second attempt, I was in such a rush because of my first experience, that I somehow decided to roll with awful melodies and harmonies.
I think 10 minutes could bring great things. 5 only allows me to lay down a sequence with little to zero musicality to it. To me, itās too short to even Ā« go with the flow Ā». You only have time to make a kick drum pattern, or spit a random sequence on each track.
Thanks for taking the time to check it out nonetheless !
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yay! sweet one. nice use of arp for drums and live recording to build it.
think we are just waiting on an A4, Rytm and OT nowā¦
lovely!
Thank you Unifono! I really like your work, your last albums are great! So it feels specially great to hear a compliment from you 
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Thank you!
I use arp all the time as a kind-of-but-not-really individual track length on the monomachine. In some ways itās nicer than the real thing 
(because itās a new sequencer within the sequencer)
thanks! thatās very encouraging 
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Did some tries of random sampling on the Digitakt from the Radiooooo app, here I got a pretty funny base sample 
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Playing catch-up with a couple Iād not had a chance to listen to yetā¦
@phading - Great work on this one - it never ceases to amaze me how good the BBOX drums sound! I liked the idea of how you anchored it with the chord you start with, it gives the other melodic ideas something to bounce off and react with/to. At least 3 or 4 variations in the bass sound you passed through were solid enough to hang a whole track off.
@audiopuncture - You certainly went in a different direction than I expected when you grab those snippets of radio. Itās a good example of how that, even when you work in quite a different way to how I do, that there are always little snippets of ideas that are applicable for me - in this case it was in where you were placing some of your steps - reminds me that I too often fall into repetitious habits.
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Looks like I had the same idea as audiopuncture. I decided to sample some random audio from radio garden by spinning the globe.
After quite a few technical failures earlier In the week (bad camera angles, bad sound, zoom recorder running out of batteries on a quite good one!) i finished oneā¦ It was not what I would have chosen but it turned out quite fun. I hope nothing offensive is being said 
You can see the timer and radio garden in the mirror.
Itās pretty stressful, but rewarding. I massively missed having a band pass on the digitakt, and it seems this process is predisposed to push me into making sort of industrial techno - not what I would normally make!
I do think with ten minutes you could probably get something good doneā¦
Oh also I missed the end of the clock by ten seconds or so - I couldnāt bring myself to start again!
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very nice. both of them
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Nobody on the OT? I would just have time to wonder in front of a kickā¦ not really worth a video 
these two are great morning listens. been my morning soundtrack two breakfasts in a row now
you make a good point that this mission is a good learning/practise exercise to speed up workflow in general.
I find the gratifying bits are when someone tries something that clashes/makes a āmistakeā then crafts it into the jam and it works.
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First attempt. No samples and nothing plugged, sampling inputs and Cue. 40s to set it up before something audible ! 
I planned different things with incoming audio to start audio earlier. I tried things with lfo designer for instance. Soooo long to set up !
This made me think I urgently need to make a personal template again to save a lot of time !
Thanks @waftlord!
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@sezare56 ThatĀ“s crazy! Love it! 
I gave it a try with the AK. I actually had two pretty good sessions with it, but didnĀ“t record them, soā¦
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