Acid Box Blues

Acid Sun out on Acid All Stars

2009-11-07T19:22:00.000-08:00

if you remember back in 2007 I finished a track called Acid Sun

if not - here is the link to it.

I sent it to Acid All Stars and they were like , yeah we like it, "we want to release it", and I was like "yay"

Well it is finally out on the Acid All Stars Gangsign EP and you can buy it from Beatport

Its a beatport exclusive so thats the only place you can grab a copy

Smooth Devil

2009-11-07T18:25:00.000-08:00

a new track, smooth techno styles, layer upon layer of sounds builds up as the tracks progresses, then it slows back down again

this one uses the sh101 but filter driven by the devilfish and the sound filtered via the devilfish,
drums from the fake08 (novation drumstation)
all mixed in ableton live 8

enjoy

Smooth Devil by DyLABs

electro acid jam

2009-10-28T20:33:00.000-07:00

here is another jam track from the devilfish, the sh101 and the fake08 (drumstation & er1 mk2)
its an acid electro vibe with spooky synth lead line, lots of verb and delay from the TAL free plugs

Elektro fish by DyLABs

Enjoy

Getting to grips with the Devilfish

2009-10-13T00:02:00.000-07:00

So i've had my devilfish about a week or so and I'm slowly getting to grips with it and how it sounds.
It is a complete transformation of the way my roland tb303 used to sound and at first it was kind of off putting as I couldn't get the sounds I used to be able to get out of it, but I've gone back and read through all the material that Robin gave me about the devilfish and with a bit of moderation my tb303 is definitely in there , its just been sonically expanded a lot.

This is a short track that shows of a new feature of the devilfish which is the unending note, there are two decay pots, one for accents and one for notes, and the old decay pot is now the volume envelope generator and it allows the unending notes.

Here is a short jam track which shows it off, the devilfish is also driving the roland sh101, and the drumstation is providing the 808 kit.

Enjoy

Long devilSH by dyLAB

Mellow Acid Jam with Devilfish and SH101

2009-10-11T01:08:00.000-07:00

It was a sunny Sunday and we all went down the beach this morning, after a restful afternoon lunch I fired up the kit

This is some mellow sunny Sunday afternoon acid, very ambient, drenched in reverb and delay, and with the devilfish's accent button and accent decay it allows for a greater level of jamming within patterns.

The SH101 sequence is run from the gate out of the devilfish and into abeton and using TAL reverb and delay, the initial melody is from the congas on the fake08 (drumstation and korg er1 combination), then the 303 picks up the same pattern, tight timing from the bitstream3.x din sync out.

Enjoy the mild acid, and I hope those of you in the northern hemisphere can feel the sunshine this jam is drenched in.

Devilfish Mellow Jam by DyLABs

TS -303 : the acid screamer

2009-10-09T15:53:00.000-07:00

My latest purchase has been the analogue renaissance ts-303 acid screamer distortion and overdrive pedal
You can find details of it on the analogue renaissance site.
Basically it adds distortion but has the ability to keep the dynamics of the tracks thats being distorted, which is great for acid tracks and drums and any other type of music that wants distortion but also dynamics

I have posted a dynamics test on Soundpunk website
You can have a listen there

You can hear a jam using the ts-303 and the devilfish , as well as the micro punk robot and my fake08 which is a korg ER1 running a novation drum station

More TS jamming by dyLAB

Devilfish & Micro Punk Robot & Fake 08

2009-10-05T22:44:00.000-07:00

the micro punk robot came from digitana today

the devilfish you can see below is recently modified by robin

this is mucking around with the devilfish, the micro punk robot and the fake 08

this is recorded into ableton live, the midi from live is converted to din sync using bitstream 3.x
this keeps the devilfish in time, the er1 is run from the midi out of the bitstream
the midi out of the er1 runs the novation drum station, giving me my fake 08
or I could switch kits and have a fake 09

the cv, accent & gate out of the devilfish connect up to the micro punk robot
cv into cv1 gate into reset accent into cv2
i not using the power supply with MPR

Devilfish n punk fake08 by dyLAB

Devilfish

2009-10-03T02:01:00.000-07:00

today I picked up my post devilfish 303, its taken the 303 from a little acid machine to some crazy acid beast
Here is a little demo of it in action, the pattern is on the devilfish, the accent out of the devilfish is running a sequence on the 303, also the cv out of the devilfish is going into the filter socket on my sh101, and the audio out from the sh101 is going to the FM in on the devilfish which modulations the devilfish's filter

Devil fish by dyLAB

a new bit of kit : a Yamaha ED-10

2009-09-16T17:49:00.001-07:00

So after waiting for ages for a reasonably priced Boss PC-2 to show up, it never did by the way.
I bit the bullet and purchased the alternative, a Yamaha ED-10
It is a drum synthesizer similar to the PC-2, it can take audio in to trigger drums, its works great from the Roland 606 trigger outs and also responds to the CV out from the TB303 but in a slightly different way than my Boss HC-2.

Its a pretty sweet bit of kit, it can power another 5 devices from the power in, if you wanted to make a drum kit, and the audio mix in means you could daisy chain a whole bunch of these together.

You can check out the set on Flickr

Here are some diagrams from the user manual to show how a bunch of them might work together and how it puts together sounds

Analogue Corner & Live Jam

2009-09-12T21:01:00.001-07:00

I've reset my gear up and I am using the bitstream as a virtual desk - rigged to effects , verb, delay and overdrive all from TAL and EQs and stuff from live

Here is a little live jam to enjoy or download, this is just sh101, tb303 and tr606.
Not enough hands just yet to run 707 too

Live Jam - tb303 - sh101 - tr606 by DyLABs

Gastrik

2009-08-21T00:16:00.000-07:00

continuing on with the sh101 experiments, this track gastrik uses the sh101 trick underneath a strong 303 bassline.
Drums are from the tr606 exclusively.
This is some dark acid that builds to get darker and darker.

Gastrik by DyLABs

tr1ksh

2009-08-18T20:40:00.000-07:00

i was going over some old files and found this tip about sequencing the roland sh101, so using this trick I sequenced in a little pattern and using the tr606 to play it here is a little live track, just the roland sh101 and tr606, distortion from the boss OS-2 and a little phaser in live.

you can also download this
as for the sequencing trick here it is for you sh101 owners

Subject: 101 sequencer tricks

Ok, I accidentaly sent my last post to someone on the list, but that's ok
cause I was confusing myself a bit here (on account that the 101 was still
going through the ms20. whatever)

here is the sequencer function that cannot be duplicated by a midi driven
(midi to cv) system.
this is one reason i often use the 101 sequencer (even though it doesn't
support my hard drive).

sequence something with some legato steps (hold down "hold" when you enter
the note) and some normal steps.

vcf freq = 4
env = 10

vca = env

env = gate VERY IMPORTANT
decay = 6
sustain = 0

those are the important bits.

while the sequencer steps through, change the decay up and down.

The envelope only retriggers on non-legato steps, so legato steps trail off
into silence with delicate little arcs (esp. with portamento).

env = lfo will retrigger on each trigger in.

It is much easier to try this than to explain this. There is a lot of
sequencer fun and subtlety here, so look out.

keep the resonance down, just the square wave (no pulse width), a bit of
portamento and program octave jumps for lots of chicago trax style.

Chris Sattinger _

Placid

2009-08-18T01:44:00.000-07:00

this is a a 90% live track, sh101 and mc202 and tb303 recorded down in one pass
the tr707 and tr606 on a second pass
then effects and extra percusion and automation followed
its a slowly growing acid track, getting heavier and heavier, enjoy

Gate effects in ableton live

2009-08-13T02:51:00.000-07:00

here are a couple of quick screen capture videos of gate effects in live
The first shows how to use a gate to send the accented notes to a delay then using a sidechained autofilter to filter the delay to the drum beat, then using effects rack and flipping the gate to have the notes still play but this time without the accented notes
I use this style of effect with the tb303 a fair bit, its a good way to have fun just with the accented notes

The second shows how to sidechain the gate using a drum beat and then using effects rack to send through the dry signal
I use this effect wih tb303 to get other sounds to follow the acid pattern also to get synths to follow drum patterns

Something Live

2009-08-11T00:43:00.000-07:00

this is a little live acid jam, tb303, mc202 and sh101 doing the synth work and tr606 and tr707 on drums - only 1 drum pattern and a little bit of synth play - plus a bit of VCF MOD - enjoy

you can download it too

Sterling Acid

2009-08-10T22:10:00.000-07:00

here is 16 bars of some old school acid house based on Sterling Void's classic house track "Alright"
This is straight out of the boxes, tr606 and tr707 on the drums, bassline tb303, the fill synth is the sh101 and the alright vocal substitute is from the mc202

enjoy

Dr Ten Ten

2009-08-04T04:32:00.000-07:00

this is an acid track I started on today - made mostly from samples of the boss dr110 hence the name - doctor ten ten
also featuring the classic roland tr727 sounds - this is a slowish, old school style acid track - but there is a smidge of modern digital dirt in there - wanted to keep the tb303 sound very thing in this, so its EQ'd back a lot
the only bit I'm not sure about is the conga with the grain delay - sometimes I really like it and other times its all a bit hmm-
enjoy

Dr Ten Ten by DyLABs

Sevens update

2009-08-04T04:09:00.000-07:00

cleaned this up a bit
stripped out some excessive bongos
pulled out one of the sh101 lines
and pitched up the rising tone and octave
added sub bass to the whole track

Sevens

2009-08-02T00:07:00.000-07:00

I was working on something slower and old school around the 125-130 mark
this is mostly tr707, with some 727 aswell
the synth lines are all from the sh101
its slower and more housey and definitely old school

Bat Acid

2009-08-01T17:37:00.000-07:00

i was playing around and wrote the old batman tv theme on the tb303 and the sh101, playing them off against each other
I transposed some of the notes, added some slides and changed the timings on the 303 and on the 101 I played the D# D C# rather than D#D# D D C# C# triggering the sequence using the tr606, whilst the tb303 gate out drove the 101 modulation

Dropped in a tom line from some 909 samples as well basic kick, snare and hats, the accompanying snare, and hats come from the tr606, the clap lines from the tr909

So enjoy

Bat Acid by DyLABs

bathing in Ecstasy

2009-07-28T02:08:00.000-07:00

so mapped out the pad with a bunch of percussion sounds and bass drum
the percussion is from the Roland CR-78 and kick from the tr606

Bathing in Ecstasy by DyLABs

bathing in ecstasy

2009-07-26T19:43:00.001-07:00

a big lush pad from the heart of the TX7
this is what FM synths are for apparently
this and clangy sounds
will be more from this later- big ambience

Moon Lander

2009-07-24T00:55:00.001-07:00

next stage of the moon lander track
arranged, eq'd mixed and ghetto mastered
inspired by the Apollo 11 landing on the moon and that famous sample
plenty of synth goodness in this track
enjoy

Moon Lander by DyLABs

Traid

2009-07-21T19:31:00.000-07:00

a new finished track from me, called Triad.

Nothing to do with Chinese gangsters honest, why Triad, well 2 reason,
1 there is a traid of synths used, sh101, mc202 and tb303
2 the acid line sequence is based on a g major triad and the mc202 and sh101 is based on its accompanying minor triad
music theory in action
enjoy the acid sounds, lots of reverb and chorus on the synths

Triad by DyLABs

moon lander

2009-07-21T05:10:00.000-07:00

to celebrate the moon landing 40 years ago
here is 21 bars of something I am working on -
called Moon Lander
3/4 acid from the 303 and weirdness from the sh101