️ This is a lot of fun. I’ve been setting a bunch of one shot record trigs on a track and playing old infomercials/random poetry/any random shit on YouTube into a+b from my phone, then just playing with trigs/fx, rearm track when I get bored of it and it changes completely, repeat across multiple tracks and make some weird stuff. Resample, trim and save a bunch of things, make them into a sample chain and load it on a track, modulate slice playback with LFO/crossfader, chop a break to play with it, probability for drum variations. it’s just never ending
Something. I like to do when I’m actually making beats and not experimenting/sample digging is taking a nice sample and making slices, putting a few trigs down and assigning slice number to the cross fader. Then I can just jump around slices with the fader. Gives it a more freestyle less repetitive way to make chops which is cool for hip hop.
Often I’ll make a nice swingy kick/snare pattern and modulate the hi hat volume slightly with an LFO, turn on independent track lengths then set the hihat pattern to 9/16 and set a few trigs to random probabilities. gets a really varied groove going quickly. Another thing I do quite regularly is time stretching my samples drum loops till they’re all dirty and stretching samples over it into demonic territory. Highly resonant high pass filter with base dialled up a touch gets the room wobbling. A lot of people slate the time stretch on OT but I like it how it is, I can do cleaner time stretch elsewhere if needs be. It has character
I find the OT is best used for making weird noises and accumulating 400 projects called variations of “ü” cause it looks like a smiley face