This is a little track I’ve been making for the Disquiet Junto group disquiet.com/2017/01/26/junto-0265/
It’s all made manually sampling stuff directly with the OT (using a Zoom H5 as mic) and the result was then recorded as “live” take, without any additional effects of processing.
It’s just something I did in a couple of hours yesterday evening, and the 8 tracks are a bit of a (mostly positive) limitation but I think it turned out nice so here we go…
It also was a great exercise to learn some new trick with the OT and see what I could do with it, without using any other gear and without resorting to existing samples or loops.
More info about what I did below. But first, here’s the track:
Process:
The track only uses objects found inside a drawer in my kitchen (as the Junto assignment required).
I took the Zoom H5, fed its line out into the inputs of my OT and manually sampled some of these objects. Then I started to manipulate and arrange them. Some sounds I kept almost untouched, just played with envelopes and LFOs on the volume and maybe added a bit of filtering (eg. some rattling sounds made with a bottle opener). Other sounds I manipulated more heavily. I used a tiny, pitched-down fraction of a chimey sound, made with a pizza-cutter wheel, to make a bassline o sorts. I recorded some wooden hits using bamboo cutlery, then turned these into reverberating timpani-like bass drums.
Other things I did: randomize sample-play position via s&h LFOs, add a inv. exp LFO on a copy of the bassline to create this pulsating rhythm, played with filters and high resonance on some samples.
I worked with the arrangement mode to organize the various patterns and define durations, I set up some scenes to modulate the various fx and fade some tracks in and out. After playing it a couple of times I recorded he result in one take from the OT to a computer.