experiment with creating nostalgic 80s synthwave drums using the Linn Drum plugin, gated reverb in Ableton Live
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Once again, really nice stuff! I think I need to sample some of the modular stuff more, and then apply more processing to it. I tend to record it fairly raw with just a few effects most of the time. It gives it a shiny / pristine quality, but I really like some of the more muted tones you’re getting out of those Serge samples. It’s very cool!
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Check out VPROM 2.0 if you get a chance. I think you’d like the LM-1 drums for this sort of thing too!
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thanks is that a plugin? I am getting pretty close with stock plugins but will also look at Valhalla reverb plugin. Getting closer to my synthwave! Now to master this for Elektron gear so I can do synthwave and darkwave drums and bass on my Rytm, A4, and Digitone!
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Yes, it’s a plugin. You can load in .BIN files from many of those old ROM based drum machines. DMX, DrumTraks etc. It behaves just like the real LM-1 for the most part, so you get some nice variation on your sounds due to the way the samples are clocked and managed. Definitely worth checking out if you like those types of sounds.
Here’s the site:
https://www.alyjameslab.com/alyjameslabvlinn.html
I used it on these tracks for example:
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nice will check it out! Definitely way cheaper than buying these vintage and now uber expensive drum machines! think can add to my hardware recordings for tons of fun. Finding out that reverb, EQ, delay and compression are the key spices for this genre of synthwave darkwave music!
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Yes, I think using any device standalone is much more fun but it can get quite samey. I generally don’t like listening to raw modular music. Especially modular sounds that I hear on Youtube are not really interesting. But it depends on what you want to do. My main focus is usually creating some kind of a conversation between sounds and it needs some organization to give these sounds meaning. Sometimes I’m able to create a patch which can give this feeling but without having a sequencer, it is really quite difficult to make it happen and at the end there is no place to touch the knobs because of all those annoying cables! This way the patches are more limited but the sound palette is very broad thanks to vast parameter range on Serge modules and just by layering I can make the whole track. I just needed to find a fun way to do it. DAW is not an option, still learning the Max, so for now this device does it pretty good. Or give me two more panels, then maybe I’d not need to layer 
Edit: James Plotkin has some of the best Serge videos btw, love them all:
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Hopefully finishing this one up soon.
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More Roland fun with the SH-4D (not drums) and MC-707 (drums & sequencing)
Born from an absolutely horrendous initial attempt to slice a drum break on the 707 and improvised/performed on the fly as I normally do
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Nice! Would pair well with 80s synthwave drums
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Double DFAM
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Four pattern probabilistic Syntakt jobby. Just a lot of conditional stuff. Mainly playing with some ideas.
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Wow, totally love this, great dark electro vibe
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Techno System + Swarm
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just digitone + 1 sample of the slot machine that i added in ableton
recorded in songmode, no further postproduction
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Thanks!
I think it would be fun to add a few more patterns, so that the transitions weren’t so abrubt, but it was pretty fun to construct basically all through conditions. 
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Nice sounds, nice setup!
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Incredible.