so I suppose this is the first Science Lab on Elektronauts.
The rules are simple:
one Machinedrum
one pattern
pattern length is 2 steps
everything else is up for grabs… the goal should be to create interesting music within this limitation.
feel free to base your experiments on creative live-tweaking & record the results, or making a pattern which runs by itself & evolves through the use of LFOs, or anything else.
but do not switch patterns, and do not set the length to more than 2 sequencer steps.
maybe if you have a MDUW, also give it a try without touching the ROM/RAM machines…
Half an hour i’m one the MD, and i think i love this lab.
Sorry if my question looks stupid, but i’m new for that kind of xperience. where do we post the result of our labor ? In Media ?
Been trying this out for a couple hours, it’s much more difficult than I expected. I can only really get 4 to the floor type beats sounding any good so far. Will be interesting to see how far people can push this idea.
^^ i was considering the same thing but personally I think that’s kind of cheating as it removes the point of it being a 2 step restriction. with mute programming it’s very easy to get say 16 steps with 8 voices…
The only thing I can think of with just 2 steps is half tempo to get a straight kick/snare combo and play everything else manually on top, without sequencer. Let’s see.
basically tried to create a varying emerging pattern by using LFOs on VOL and FLTF, but also routing RAM machines out through outputs C/D and patching them back into the inputs for triggering other machines… fun!
i think I made no changes to the pattern and did not even touch the mutes during the recording… but load several different kits which were saved earlier, and twiddled the knobs…
