Monday, January 3, 2011

Just an acid idea...

I'll share this idea with anyone listening and perhaps you'll beat me to it. The challenge: program and utilize only one pattern on the tb-303 and construct an entire EP with it.

The unimaginative might write a four-bar pattern and make four songs, each with a different one-bar pattern inside. I feel it would be masterful, however, to take the same pattern and slow it, speed it, tweak it, effect it, reverse it and chop it to make it have various feels.

I'm going to go try right now.

3 comments:

  1. sadly we don't have a 303. like the idea though

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  2. there are plenty of hardware and software alternatives guaranteed to melt faces!

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  3. it really depends on how strict you are with the 1 pattern - ie the pattern may have all the same notes and timing but move the accent and slides between the 4 tracks, which would result in quite differing results.

    another approach could be to do an irregular pattern length using prime numbers maybe 7 or 11 then use effects to change the sounds

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