not been having much time recently for writing tracks so just been getting into jamming with the devilfish and other bits of kits
this is the tr606 and the devilfish in action and the sh101 making weird background noises.
Enjoy the acid jams and both are freely downloadable
this one is a fast one at 175 BPM
Fast DBL Acid by DyLABs
this one has the sh101 on growl duties
acid jam blood by DyLABs
ohmforce remix competion
those plugin masters over at ohmforce are having a remix competions
you can read all about it here.
This is my take on the track.
Its a bit of a dubstep vibe whilst keeping the lush synths from the original
Enjoy and if you really like it, vote for it!
Derek Howell – Stride (3013 Restepped) by DyLABs
you can read all about it here.
This is my take on the track.
Its a bit of a dubstep vibe whilst keeping the lush synths from the original
Enjoy and if you really like it, vote for it!
Derek Howell – Stride (3013 Restepped) by DyLABs
How to program a tb303
Here is a video I made on how to program a tb303, I go through erasing a pattern, writing the pitch data, writing the timing data and then editing pitch and timing data - the pattern isnt going be blowing any minds but it shows how to program the tb303 quite clearly.
You can watch it in HD on my youtube channel.
You can watch it in HD on my youtube channel.
Drumstation and Drum Racks
A while back I bought a Novation drumstation and for a while I have bee running it using my Korg Er1 in a x0x style.
This is good for basic rhythms and hands on programming but is limited to only 10 sounds in a 4 bar block on the drumstation and doesn't allow for velocity or any other type of modifications.
So I decided to run the drum station from Abelton.
Initially I set up two midi channels one with a drum rack in it with the drum rack holding a short silent sample in each simpler and one track that had an external instrument in it that received the midi from the drum rack channel. This seemed to work ok but wasn't very elegant and meant I'd have to have two channels each time I want to use the drumstation.
So I looked at putting the external instrument into the drum rack.
At first I couldn't get this to work and upon further exploration of the drum rack's IO it was taking the C0 note and sending a C3 this would make sense with simpler but not good for external hardware. So a simple tweak of the recieve play note fixed that up as shown below.
The next problem I had was if I had an instance of an external instrument in each rack I'd end up with an audio inputs for each note in the rack, with each playing all the drum sounds at once. So this wasn't very elegant at all.
So after some further investigation , thanks ableton forum and a bit of RTFM I found that you could create an additional chain in a drum rack that received all notes.
So I started again and this time created a chain that took a note in and sent the same note out. Then I created a new chain that took all the midi notes and this is where I placed the external instrument to send midi date out to the novation drumstation.
You can see how thats set up below.
So now I have a full working drum rack for my drumstation and can easily access all the sounds (8 sounds at once) from ableton live. And using the same technique I have setup a drum rack for my Korg ER1 aswell.
You can grab the zipped up complete drumstation drum rack from here.
This works with drumstation GM sound set in 808 mode other wise the 909 and 808 kits are mixed up.
This is good for basic rhythms and hands on programming but is limited to only 10 sounds in a 4 bar block on the drumstation and doesn't allow for velocity or any other type of modifications.
So I decided to run the drum station from Abelton.
Initially I set up two midi channels one with a drum rack in it with the drum rack holding a short silent sample in each simpler and one track that had an external instrument in it that received the midi from the drum rack channel. This seemed to work ok but wasn't very elegant and meant I'd have to have two channels each time I want to use the drumstation.
So I looked at putting the external instrument into the drum rack.
At first I couldn't get this to work and upon further exploration of the drum rack's IO it was taking the C0 note and sending a C3 this would make sense with simpler but not good for external hardware. So a simple tweak of the recieve play note fixed that up as shown below.
The next problem I had was if I had an instance of an external instrument in each rack I'd end up with an audio inputs for each note in the rack, with each playing all the drum sounds at once. So this wasn't very elegant at all.
So after some further investigation , thanks ableton forum and a bit of RTFM I found that you could create an additional chain in a drum rack that received all notes.
So I started again and this time created a chain that took a note in and sent the same note out. Then I created a new chain that took all the midi notes and this is where I placed the external instrument to send midi date out to the novation drumstation.
You can see how thats set up below.
So now I have a full working drum rack for my drumstation and can easily access all the sounds (8 sounds at once) from ableton live. And using the same technique I have setup a drum rack for my Korg ER1 aswell.
You can grab the zipped up complete drumstation drum rack from here.
This works with drumstation GM sound set in 808 mode other wise the 909 and 808 kits are mixed up.
Do Re Me
I was playing a simple scale to my little girl which she was enjoying and from that came this little jam
There were some interesting things going on in the lower end of the scale so reworked the pattern and came up with this
tb303 devilfish lead synth, sh101 on bassline duty, two tr606's one doing kick the other doing snare.
Gate out from tb303 driving the sh101, the tb303 and sh101 16 beats to bar, the tr606 are on 12 beats to bar mode and double timed
This is running at 60 bpm but having the drums on 12 step 3/4 double time to the tb303/sh101 16 step 4/4 time gives the difference in speeds between the two.
enjoy
Do Re Me by DyLABs
There were some interesting things going on in the lower end of the scale so reworked the pattern and came up with this
tb303 devilfish lead synth, sh101 on bassline duty, two tr606's one doing kick the other doing snare.
Gate out from tb303 driving the sh101, the tb303 and sh101 16 beats to bar, the tr606 are on 12 beats to bar mode and double timed
This is running at 60 bpm but having the drums on 12 step 3/4 double time to the tb303/sh101 16 step 4/4 time gives the difference in speeds between the two.
enjoy
Do Re Me by DyLABs
Acid Cuts two
my track triad is out now on Acid cuts part two from SWISHCOtheque records
its a free download so grab yourself a copy of some great acid tracks
out now from SWISHCOtheque - Acid cuts part two.
Hello acid friends. Here we bring you
part two of our acid cuts series, as you
can imagine its more 303 mental and melodic
goodness, if you enjoyed part one your gunna
love part two. Hit the download link and enjoy 13 tracks of wonderess acidness :)
Tracklisting and myspace contact info:
1.Volxsound.(www.myspace.com/volxsound)
2.Lastrapink.(www.myspace.com/lastrapink)
3.Chris Moss Acid.(www.myspace.com/chrismossacid)
4.robot for brains.(www.myspace.com/robotforbrains)
5.Volitune.(www.myspace.com/volitune)
6.Paul Blackford.(www.myspace.com/paulblackford)
7.Monolog X.(www.myspace.com/monologx)
8.SFVacid.(www.myspace.com/sfvacid)
9.DyLAB.(www.myspace.com/dylabs)
10.Impakt.(www.myspace.com/indal)
11.Acidburp.(www.myspace.com/acidburpmusic)
12.Philops.(www.myspace.com/philopz)
13.Pan Expander.(www.myspace.com/panexpander)
Happy listening :)
its a free download so grab yourself a copy of some great acid tracks
out now from SWISHCOtheque - Acid cuts part two.
Hello acid friends. Here we bring you
part two of our acid cuts series, as you
can imagine its more 303 mental and melodic
goodness, if you enjoyed part one your gunna
love part two. Hit the download link and enjoy 13 tracks of wonderess acidness :)
Tracklisting and myspace contact info:
1.Volxsound.(www.myspace.com/volxsound)
2.Lastrapink.(www.myspace.com/lastrapink)
3.Chris Moss Acid.(www.myspace.com/chrismossacid)
4.robot for brains.(www.myspace.com/robotforbrains)
5.Volitune.(www.myspace.com/volitune)
6.Paul Blackford.(www.myspace.com/paulblackford)
7.Monolog X.(www.myspace.com/monologx)
8.SFVacid.(www.myspace.com/sfvacid)
9.DyLAB.(www.myspace.com/dylabs)
10.Impakt.(www.myspace.com/indal)
11.Acidburp.(www.myspace.com/acidburpmusic)
12.Philops.(www.myspace.com/philopz)
13.Pan Expander.(www.myspace.com/panexpander)
Happy listening :)
been making visuals
I have been messing around with particle systems and kaleidoscopes in after effects to make some visuals for my CAPATCHA EP
Linking properties to the audio amplitude is a great way to get everything to synch, so for some eye bending visuals take a gander
you can grab a copy of the CAPATCHA EP on bandcamp
http://dylab.bandcamp.com/album/capatcha-e-p
enjoy
Linking properties to the audio amplitude is a great way to get everything to synch, so for some eye bending visuals take a gander
you can grab a copy of the CAPATCHA EP on bandcamp
http://dylab.bandcamp.com/album/capatcha-e-p
enjoy
