OT shimmer attempt gone way left and created something new

Elektron Gear Octatrack
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OT experiment to create a shimmer went it’s own direction and actually turned into a little soundtrack, the samples at the start are all that i used to create this.

There is also a vocal sample of Peter Zinovieff speaking on stage about a computer playing itself and self generating music, this performance was in England and was the very first computer performance, it seemed to fit the OT and it’s personality and it’s ability to go somewhere you never planned - the vocal is only used for depth and feeling, not extraction for audio mangling.

video courtesy of Beeple - aka mike winklemann

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#2

Great stuff. Only an Octatrack huh? Interested in your technique.

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#3

Nice! Are you using feedback from hardware output to input or internally via the recorders?

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#4

Really great realisation, congratulations, glad to here things like this here.

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#5

I’m guessing feedback , sample rate reduction , playing samples with rate reduced , delays …

Sounds nice too , creepy atmosphere

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#6

very nice! :slight_smile:

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#7

no feedback used

Basically it is 1 track for the hat followed by 3 neighbours, hat track uses filter +delay, neighbour 1 is Comb Filter and plate and neighbour 2 is using the phaser and plate again. Start modulation and repeats plus pitch adjustment required. Each track has serious sequencing but if you use these settings you’ll get close very fast i expect

The kick has a LOFI fx (and heavily utilising the ring mod which is where the pitched tones are coming from - the FREQ and amount of mod are starting to become a fave of mine after ignoring them for years) and dark verb only - no neighbour tracks, lots of fast repeats, modded sample start points and reverse playing are used to get the sounds to where they are.

thousands of man hours logged and still i find surprises

i am sure i can create a shimmer of some sorts (or at least a cool verb) so that is my mission if i don’t get sidetracked yet again hahaha

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#8

see post above

#9

Underrated effect. Especially as you can trigger it with trigless trigs.

Good stuff. Perfect example of the curse (this is not what I’d intended) and blessing (holy !$@×) that is the OT.

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#10

I haven’t tried neighbour tracks yet , but I do like to send main out into cue fx via mixer , careful amounts of feedback and Lofi.

#11

i only recently started to use the neighbour function while searching for personal and unique epic fx on my 303, i am now loving neighbours because of all the crazy modulations that become part of a pattern - mind blowing.

also you get a much better palette of reverb i find using many models one after another mixed with other stuff.

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#12

I use a lot of the amp parameters to get nice gate fx , sequence random delay sends etc, very. Nice fx box .

I’ve been digging into the arp too , helps to keep my notes in right scale.

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#13

hehe, who doesn’t need help with scales ? i know i do :rofl:

but seriously, use a couple of tracks or more for neighbours - you will see the bright lights at the end of the tunnel

#14

Nice ! Missing kicks and hi hats ! :smile:

I tried to do a shimmer fx once, but it became something else too !
I’ll try again tonight, I was thinking about a regular track T1 with Dark Reverd, a track T2 recording T1, played with +12 pitch, timestretch on, filter, Dark Reverb.
For higher pitch, you can use T3, recording T2.

Edit : just tried, works pretty well.

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#15

Posted this a while ago, useful for OT

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#16

Let’s hear it then matey

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#17

Wow. Thanx for the in-depth explanation. I’m trying to escape the loop here…get out of the same old hat. I’ve used neighbor tracks to effect my synth, but never to this sort of extreme. I was getting this sort of stuff on my iPad with sampler in audiobus pretty easily, using a bunch effects and synths…but with OT, I end up making Technoish stuff. It’ll take more time, and researching, but I’ll get there. I checked out your youtube channel and enjoy all your music.
thanx again

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#18

Shimmer attempt. 1+2+3 octaves up.

  • T1 with Dark Reverb (Thru, Flex, Static, Pickup)
  • T2 recording T1, played with +12 pitch, timestretch on, filter, Dark Reverb (Octave 1)
  • T3 recording T2, same settings (Octave 2)
  • T4 recording T3, same settings (Octave 3)
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#19

crazy crazy stuff @sezare56 :scream_cat: :+1:

did you think about adding a comb filter or phaser to the pitched verb? try it

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#20

thanks for listening ! :+1:

keep experimenting :grinning: