Tutorial - make a drone from a brass sample

Elektron Gear Octatrack
#1

Simple and quick.

#2

Nice one, thanks!

I realize that I haven´t goofed with the comb filter enough, especially with any LFO´s involved. I liked how it evolved by itself…

#3

nice tutorial! Especially helpful that it is short and to the point. thanks for sharing it

#4

Damn!!!

great technique!!

thanks for sharing that

#5

I don’t play with LFO very often. But i will. I realized how powerful they can be when i was making this tutorial.

#6

:joy:

#7

Thanks! Very mucht to the point! Nice, very nice.
:+1:

#8

Very cool!

Thanks

#9

@ Tintao
excellent demonstration
i really think this demo alone sells the samplers capabilities more than any other demo ive seen!

#10

wonderful, thx for the vid

#11

not that it affects the usefuleness of the video in any regards, but it didn’t strike me that any of the samples you played/used were ‘brass’ - sounded more like woodwind (&string) to me, before the all useful attack was obfuscated - good idea nonetheless :+1:

#12

Thank you all for watching, and your feedbacks. Actually the sample used is a high note played by a real saxophone. I’m not english speaking native, i guessed saxophone was a brass, but i may be wrong. My apologies if so. Anyway, as i said, we can reproduce the process for any kind of sounds like this :slight_smile:

#13

honestly, it changes nothing, although the woodwind timbre is possibly more suited to droning, but it is a woodwind :wink: even though it’s made of brass

#14

Yes, you’re right. Thanks for the infos.
I bought my A4 and Octatrack after viewing a lot of demonstration video on the net, to be sure these were the machines i needed.
Now, it’s my turn to show how powerful these machine are. And i like it.

#15

Thanks for sharing!

I’m not so much the drone type of person, but I took your vid as an inspiration to have some fun with the combfilter:

  1. load a chord loop
  2. insert a combfilter, feedback almost (but not) 100%
  3. link a design lfo to the combfilter’s frequency and create some rhythmical pattern. adjust step magnitudes until the frequencies fit
  4. add a lock-enabled delay and hook the send param to a scene. for more madness, lfo on the delay time (here, too, use design lfos with discrete steps - makes for nice delay length jumps)

for variations: alter the lfos’ speeds, change sample playback rate and/or tune, etc.

#16

Excellent. You should upload a sound to show a result !
Comb filter is a great effect for me. Applied with a bass or a bass drum, you can make also powerful beats.

#17

completely agree…
Now i add my own.
Using infinite retriggering and time to taste you can
[by smoothing/filtering out the sounding repetitions and modulating the sound also with pitch or rate (on pitch stretch)]
have some timbral changes that you can add to the Comb.
P.S.
Tinato…Brass is the correct word for a saxophone! :wink:

#18

read on, then correct the page :wink:

#19

:zonked: