I’m new to Elektron so bear with me. I just bought an ARmkii and am loving it despite the learning curve. I’m also entirely new to drum machines, as I’ve always just used samples/midi in Ableton to program in the past. Lots to learn, but that’s exactly why I got this!
One of my favorite ways to learn new gear is to try to copy things I like. That way I learn it and also aren’t upset if I really mess something up! (Cough saving kits/patterns/projects cough lol)
I think this beat (including the syncopated synth parts) may have been created on an AR. How would you go about recreating each of these components (like what machines might have been used for each sound and any orher tips etc). https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IZfCj7tuZ-E
hmm you might want to try the Silky kick engine for the kick drum
the short siren-ish synth stab, you can use the pitch bend knob on the Dual VCO engine. pitch the VCO up, shorten the amp decay and turn the pitch bend knob to the left to get the siren effect
the noise swoops, try the noise engine and play with the envelopes to get the smooth attack
the little wooden plinks and plops, try the rimshot engine and filter it. but you might wanna put together a sample chain of little sounds like that, it’s useful to have on the rytm. the rytm synth engines tend to be better for bigger sounds
for syncopation, either record it live or program it in with the microtiming grid
In terms of the beat I’d experiment with choke groups … it sounded like the kick / snare etc are either short or cut off each when another instrument is used
In a way you could do much of it using 1 x track and sound locks instead of kick , snare tracks.
Hi hats sound like separate track to kick/snare as they’re playing ‘on their own’ even if the kick is triggered.
Sometimes I make percussion tracks with one instrument playing at any time, it keeps it snappy and sparse as every trigger is cutting off any other sound ( no overlapping audio )
And I’m general I’d listen to lots of modeselektor as this is similar to their work ( in terms of percussion ) … they’ve both worked together on tracks.
Thanks! I had actually noticed a “choke group” playing around with it the other day (because of the machine’s shared voices) but have never heard of the concept before! So good to know this is an explore thing.
If you are having problem placing the trigs, you might record the audio and open it up in a DAW so you can see the wav form and listen at the same time.
