Lately, I’ve been doing entire drum loops - kick, snare, hi-hats, perc - with just a single voice circuit/track of the analog RYTM by using sound locks on every trig. I like how this opens up the rest of the 7 voices for more complex compositions. But today I challenged myself to not only limit a drum loop to a single voice/track, but limit a drum loop to a single analog “machine”, e.g. SD Natural or DVCO, and completely WITHOUT SAMPLES!
What started as an experiment turned into a terrific exercise for making new sounds and going deep with the analog “machines” in general. I highly highly recommend it to anyone new to the RYTM or analog drum synthesis. Also, people who feel they are underutilizing certain “machines”, and peeps who feel like their RYTM doesn’t have enough variety in analog drum sounds NEED to try this out too.
So the challenge in detail:
- Pick any machine on any voice circuit (e.g. BD FM, CB Classic, SD Hard, etc. - the less familiar you are, the better)
- With this machine and this machine ONLY make three sounds resembling a kick, snare, and hi-hat - save each sound to the sound pool once you have it
- Sequence a drum loop using sound locks set to these patches you just made.
With a lot of tricks, I believe you can make any machine sound something sort of like a drum loop.
Of course, here’s recorded audio of my go at 9 different tries
In order of appearance (changes ever 4 bars):
- SD Natural
- SD FM
- BD Sharp
- RS Hard
- BT Classic
- XT Classic
- CB Classic
- CY Ride
- Impulse
Please share your results if you try it out.