Anyone have any experience or recommendations making Phonk with the OT?
(To any of you that may be unfamiliar with the genre (or the term) it’s generally instrumental at around 170bpm hip hop with triplets on the hihats a big fat ass kick and deep heavy sub bass lots of layered samples and often vocal cut ins of old school Memphis hiphop tracks. I used to know the genre as Trap but then people decided trap was now the term for dubstep and dubstep was now the term for tearout/brostep…I don’t know but the producers that make this stuff usually refer to it as Phonk so that’s what I’m going with)
Here’s a couple examples:
It’s not a genre I usually make but one that I do enjoy and want to fuck around with. Although most of the producers that make it use FL studio I figured since it’s so sample heavy that it might be fun to do with the OT.
The main issue I’m having is getting the triplets on the hihat just right using the OT, using the repeat function I can get there but it’s cumbersome to dial in just right, I can do it in the AR easily with note repeat but I’d rather use the OT since I’ll need to do a lot of time stretching of samples.
I don’t know if I can get it 100% in the OT since balancing the kick and sub traditionally would be done with the right EQing and compression in a DAW but I’m going to try.
Anyone have any recommendations on getting this stuff done with the limitations of the OT?
I think that sort of thing is done with note repeats on MPCs. Push 2 is able to do that trick as well. Nothing I know of to do those little triplet rolls on OT. Maybe with the p-lock RTRG and RTIM. Maybe there’s a table that someone has done that shows the RTIM values for different time divisions.
EDIT: Maybe a sample chain of different hihat rolls in different time divisions? Play them in slice mode and adjust the length as necessary?
but at least i like the term “phonk” more than “trap”…
and i hardly recomment to use ar for the booms and the tschaks and the triplets…
especially the booms live from the fact that they’re NOT based on fixed samples…
and leave ALL the rest of sampling action to THE sampler…oteeeeeeeeeeee…
while end of the day, fl or any other daw will serve u better/faster to get THIS done…
if u wanna treat urself, spent a day in front of a computer and create some fast snippets/sample chains with ordinary presets aiming that genre direction (especially fl got tons of shit prefabbed to offer here) and then scrub them up with ur hardware to get ur own vibe out of it…
