Machinedrum - Ghetto Tech - - ongoing tracks

Elektronauts Our Music
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I’ve since adjusted this thread. I got rid of my posts on soundcloud, as they were capping my minutes. These links will go my soundclick postings.
Thanks,

http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=12771711
this ones got two monotribes in it

http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=12601670
MDUW only

http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=12587683
MDUW only

http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=12558624
MDUW only

http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=12548110
MDUW only

http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=12541615
MDUW only

http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=12539154

http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=12535159

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These ghetto tracks are great Dacava! I love the rhythms you’ve got going. Your solo MD is sounding pretty damn good, I have to say. If someone was to take all my gear away, the MD would be the last thing to pry out of my hands!

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Thanks Poonti:) I do love my MD. There’s too many reasons to name, but I think a big one is it gets you thinking about music differently. Instead of using notes on a scale, you create a sound pitch it, and turn the knob until it sounds right… than repeat.

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You definitely know how to work that MD man.

I think that the MD is very powerful as a solo instrument.

I can imagine a MKIII MD that is an analogue/digital hybrid with a mixture of analogue and digital, oh that would be excellent.

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Hey man, thanks for the listen.
My prediction for the next elektron box won’t be a machinedrum MK III, but just a 12 voice analogue drum machine.
Why 12?
Well, they already have a 4 (A4) 6 (MNM) 8 (Octatrack) 16 (MDUW) so logically the next number must be 12 hehehehe

As far as a machinedrum MK III. What would be cool, is if you had the option of saving individual drum sounds, so they can be shared between kits easier, sort of like the sound saving on the A4, that would be really cool:)
L8r man,
Mike

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Quite liking the dirty sort of 12 bit minimal kind of vibe also - remind some a lot of old tunes done on an S900 for example.

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Wow well done…love this old school belgian jump style sound…

And I agree with you about having a global sample bank for layering sounds

I made some layering sample banks (mainly for SD, BD). But I have to copy and paste then into my working sample bank, which takes effort.

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Hello VennDiagram & Noxical,
Thanks for the listen.
Since the MDUW doesn’t do stretching of samples, it usually takes a few tries with a microphone, before I can record a sample that’ll fit nicely in the song. Mind you, sometimes extreme pitching of samples adds a little something to the character of the song I would have missed if I had a stretch/slice function;)
Cheers,
Mike

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I do really like no. 5! Starts dry and rough and then you add many nice things as the track evolves! nice toms btw :slight_smile:

EDIT: killer bass!

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Thanks Moritz… I’ve been having fun with the machinedrum lately. What I had to do was embrace it’s harsh, cold, digital nature and stop trying to make it sound analogue:)

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Machinedrum user award 2013 for DaCaVa.

With your flow in the last months you teased out the usability of the md to create crisp sounds

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Thanks man… as stated above, I sort of had to embrace the harshness of the MD - - get into doing rough SRR on sounds, bring in the noise, the clicks, #uck with samples - - - use the BRR and really embrace the machinedrum as a machinedrum. Oh… and stop worry about trying to tune the sounds to a chromatic scale. I have no idea what notes are used, I just play with the pitch parameter until it sits right and sounds good to my ears:)

Thanks again:)