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Ambient/Post-Rock/Textural bass playing thread

#5,682
ugly_bassplayer said:
Glad we have the same level of appreciation for the Bomb squad.

Ill check out some vids on patterning, thank you my friend.

On that trademark thing again?
prismatic....

;)
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Make sure it’s a Patterning2 demo! Seriously good drum machine.

Bob_Ross said:
re: drum programming ... I kinda have the opposite problem that many of you describe. I was given a pair of drumsticks from jazz drummer Jerry Betters when I was 4 years old, was always cobbling together fake drumkits throughout my pre-teens, and finally started seriously playing drums in high school, through college, and then on and off for a few years thereafter. When I program drums they absolutely are based on things a human drummer can/would actually do on a kit, they sound more-or-less "natural" (as opposed to "mechanical" at least), and it all comes rather easily for me.

It also take freakin' forever.

Worse still, it also shows up the deficiencies in my sound library far more than a less literal drum track would.

I sometimes wish I could forget everything I know about drumming so I could approach sequenced percussion tracks with a bit more ...eh, I don't necessarily want to say "naivete" but just a more accepting, open mind, a willingness to embrace the mechanical nature of samples and drum machines and grids... thinking maybe I should try collaborating with musicians who only know drumming as a programmed beat-making thing; I could learn a lot, and they could probably reinvigorate compositions that have maybe grown stale or been pigeon-holed in my mind.
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When I was a kid I got really good at making drum machines sound kinda like an actual drummer by doing things drummers would actually do. I even played parts into the machine using midi pads to get more realistic fills and whatnot. That was for a rock band I was in in the late ‘80’s. By 1990 or so, I realized the last thing I wanted from a drum machine was to sound like a real drummer. When I feel like taking the time these days, my very favorite thing is to make my own percussion elements from scratch with a VCO, envelope and filter. For a time I was making all my ‘drums’ on my bass guitar and sampling them into the Octatrack. I play pretty conventional music for a living and enjoy it, but when I’m doing my own stuff at home, I like to get outside the norms quite a bit :)
 
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dukeorock said:
Make sure it’s a Patterning2 demo! Seriously good drum machine.



When I was a kid I got really good at making drum machines sound kinda like an actual drummer by doing things drummers would actually do. I even played parts into the machine using midi pads to get more realistic fills and whatnot. That was for a rock band I was in in the late ‘80’s. By 1990 or so, I realized the last thing I wanted from a drum machine was to sound like a real drummer. When I feel like taking the time these days, my very favorite thing is to make my own percussion elements from scratch with a VCO, envelope and filter. For a time I was making all my ‘drums’ on my bass guitar and sampling them into the Octatrack. I play pretty conventional music for a living and enjoy it, but when I’m doing my own stuff at home, I like to get outside the norms quite a bit :)
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That spinning wheel is gonna make me nauseous........
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steubig said:
hey

just want to say that i really enjoy this thread and getting to read everyone’s comments. something i look forward to every day. makes this isolation thing a little bit more bearable.

be safe out there.
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It's the perfect thing if one isn't on social media. No dinner pics, conspiracy theorists or duckface selfies.
 
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steubig said:
fwiw, i consider this social media. on tb we often do pedal/bass pics and argue about whether or not "tone wood matters."
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Got tone wood?
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ugly_bassplayer said:
Ok, my old is showing.
I can't handle the spinning drum machine.
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Ha! I kinda got used to it, but I rarely use my iPad for music anymore.

Worked on percussion loops using my Verbos Complex Oscillator all dang day. Recorded over an hour of it and chopped it up. Ears are ringing :)
 
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dukeorock said:
Ha! I kinda got used to it, but I rarely use my iPad for music anymore.

Worked on percussion loops using my Verbos Complex Oscillator all dang day. Recorded over an hour of it and chopped it up. Ears are ringing :)
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Clips of some of it?
What did you chop it up with??

Please dont say "right click"..."slice to midi"
;)

I kinda use my iPad as a main source of samples cuz my cd player is dead.
 
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#5,691
Digging up old tracks from when I first started using Maschine. A friend wants some background music content for his documentary, so I’m bouncing stuff. Unfortunately, he wants more of my beat-driven content, and less of my ambient stuff :(
I’d gladly churn out endless ambient stuff and score half the documentary in three takes ;)
 
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ugly_bassplayer said:
Clips of some of it?
What did you chop it up with??

Please dont say "right click"..."slice to midi"
;)
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I recorded it straight into Logic in one take. Chopped out what I didn’t like. Everything is at 110 bpm for now. My Octatrack time stretches very well if it comes to that. I haven’t bounced anything down yet. Loops are anywhere from 2 bars to 3 minutes. I’d be happy to Dropbox some stuff to you, if you like :)
 
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monsterthompson said:
Digging up old tracks from when I first started using Maschine. A friend wants some background music content for his documentary, so I’m bouncing stuff. Unfortunately, he wants more of my beat-driven content, and less of my ambient stuff :(
I’d gladly churn out endless ambient stuff and score half the documentary in three takes ;)
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Want any links to some tutorials on YouTube to make lofi beats.....just 47383849493u4849 of them on there.

Weird coincidence, they all use the same Ahmad Jamal sample.


:roflmao:
 
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Finally got my bass out today and decided why not go the whole hog, got out my bass whammy as well as the pedalboard... was fun to try and see what I could do with whammy as harmony into dirty robot, various dirt,reverb, chorus... did find my “ultimate filter sweep” of dirty robot into mbd1, flanger, modulated reverb and extra chorus... only thing is still want that sy1! Ah well hopefully all the staying in isolation blows over by my birthday in May so I can find more time and toys to create / have band back together...
 
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theunknowndude said:
Finally got my bass out today and decided why not go the whole hog, got out my bass whammy as well as the pedalboard... was fun to try and see what I could do with whammy as harmony into dirty robot, various dirt,reverb, chorus... did find my “ultimate filter sweep” of dirty robot into mbd1, flanger, modulated reverb and extra chorus... only thing is still want that sy1! Ah well hopefully all the staying in isolation blows over by my birthday in May so I can find more time and toys to create / have band back together...
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Wait, you did all that and didn't share? Harrumph.....
 
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theunknowndude said:
Finally got my bass out today and decided why not go the whole hog, got out my bass whammy as well as the pedalboard... was fun to try and see what I could do with whammy as harmony into dirty robot, various dirt,reverb, chorus... did find my “ultimate filter sweep” of dirty robot into mbd1, flanger, modulated reverb and extra chorus... only thing is still want that sy1! Ah well hopefully all the staying in isolation blows over by my birthday in May so I can find more time and toys to create / have band back together...
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Lol @ this being done by May 2021, let alone May 2020...although I shouldn't say that, there is a chance we can be out of this by spring / summer next year. For those that don't agree, answer me what will magically happen to end this that isn't a vaccine?
 
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cosmicevan said:
Lol @ this being done by May 2021, let alone May 2020...although I shouldn't say that, there is a chance we can be out of this by spring / summer next year. For those that don't agree, answer me what will magically happen to end this that isn't a vaccine?
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We all die? Or at least those people that insist on defying and going out or protesting at statehouses like they're in some zombie movie?

Nah. It's gonna be a long haul. I've already told other players I play with that I don't think anyone will be gigging for at least a year.

I'm bummed about that, but also see it as an opportunity to focus on my own music and skills.
 
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dukeorock said:
Still making percussion sounds with the Verbos Complex Oscillator...got hours of the stuff, all live in one pass. Fun as anything, but starting to give me a headache :)
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i liked that a lot. some of those high frequencies were getting to me as well.

so, i assume there was a lot of knob twiddling to get that. is thst correct? (it’s not self-generating, right?)

have you ever tried to play bass along with that sort of thing?
 

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