Test Success? : Drum & Bass with Elektrons

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Hi there,

long time I came by to post something since I was deeply glued into computer music these last years,

but I tried a 'little setup" 4 months ago to take a break, with the weird idea to try to do the best Drum & Bass / Neurofunk live performance I could manage with “all the limitations” of the machines,

but the musical holiday turned into the making of a real live project ahah

4 months or hard learning, relearning (the OT wonders, the DN weirdness synthesis…), I think it’s hugely fun and playable even if it will still evolve!

Here is a recording session I just did after 3 days working on the gain staging / mixdown, and “dawless mastering” with the just-purchased Atlas Compression pedal…

It’s RAW recording with no processing there after the Atlas pedal.

I hope you’ll enjoy the DN “drum"n"bass abilities” I discovered myself with pleasure (I thouht the DN was quite “too soft” before I decided to check this more further)

CHEERS

Digitone for Synths
Digitakt for Drums
Octatrack for some samples and live mixmagic
Source Audio Atlas for master output limiting/compression

The rest of the live set and unrecorded new sectors are in the soundcloud playlist, quite OK but not with the same process, no Atlas compression and no trig-LFO-amp-vol-stuff on the Digitone, but heavy computer process after recording.

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That was pretty damn good, my g. It might need a little fine tuning on levels, but not much.

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I think it’s good too, nice and grimy.

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What came to your mind? I’ll take your input with interest

Indeed I’m still polishing the beast, now I’m set up with the master process but I now have around 100 patterns to fine gain-stage and LFO-amp trigs writing for the microducking I set onto the kicks and snares in the OT’s digitone path for these 16 first patterns ahah

Lots of work also to be done to smoothen some transitions between songs, there are 3-4 that are very difficult for now, I’m trying a OT live-cue-rec-flex-transition-trick but with this kind of music superposing 2 songs is not that great, I think I’ll get more into glitchy / remixey routines as I grow my live abilities…

Thanks for the feedback!

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“grimy”
I like that <3

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Awesome tracks! Keep going! :fire:

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Nicely done… :+1:

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