in my attempt to jump from Ableton to a hardware and physical approach of music I’m finding an ocean of creativity and excitement with Elektron’s gear. Some days ago I tried to emulate the workflow of William Basinski with my setup and I found in a drum machine a hidden ambient generative device. fuck yes, I love it.
the Rytm is playing 4/5 samples that I have in loop mode and infinite decay so they loop independently forever. How one fades them in or out, mixes and process leads to entirely different soundscapes. I hope you will enjoy this little jam, I did
Wow. Beautiful!I love that part around 15 min where you apply distortion to the mix. I have just scratched the surface on the Rytm, but this totally ambient way of working is intriguing. Thanks for sharing.
thank you! I think distortion in these kind of ambient compositions is probably the most important tool for this character. In this case I had a very slow LFO into the Symetry of the master distortion so at some point you find yourself in really light and airy moment or absolutely heavy and weight, and you did nothing, so you just adapt >.<
Also one of my fav tricks you can try is generating distortion by increasing the resonance of the filter until an exaggerated sweet spot and quickly turned it down again, letting that cranked peak diffuse through the reverb. In a way it’s like generating root notes with the freq spectrum
Excellent! I’m actually in the process of transferring all my four-track tape samples, drones, and loops into Logic in anticipation of the Rytm. Nice to see that it’s capable of this workflow. Well done!
Just listened again to the Disintegration album by Basinski. This attempt on the Rhythm is really good. And a great way to emulate disintegration. Well done.
definitely… “sad story”: I ended up switching my rytm + octatrack for digitone + digitakt. I?m very happy now on how can I make this ambient with the 2 digis, but I have to confess, I f**ng miss the analog filter and overdrive from the rytm :’(. For that grittiness was perfect!
It’s something I’m considering for a long time. The problem is the Rytm was giving me this in a per-track basis, while the Heat will be a master FX. Also for some reason it kinda pushes me away to follow the logical elektron setup. Not because I find the heat bad, is an awesome machine, but I’d like something more personal rather than the easiest solution. I like to make things different XD
