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The story: made for the December Elektron-users.com Monomachine contest. The rules seem somewhat limiting: use only the "Superwave - Ensemble" machine. The SWAVE>ENS, which makes up one of the five synthesis types available on the Monomachine, is a four osc synth with adjustable pulsewidth, waveform, and even chorus width and level. Three of the oscs can be changed in relation to the root key, +/- 12 semitones. And then you have the Mono's extensive modulation possibilities...it's a very flexible machine.
For this tune, I started with a "boom-bap" sort of pattern as a base and crafted the sound until it felt nasty. The filters are just sick on this thing. In fact, they do downright weird things to the sound. For instance, the main sound has a high HP Q level setting that causes strange aliasing artifacts in the upper-most octave. When you add the SRR (sample rate reduction) effect and modulate the HP filter BASE, it sounds like Tron screaming for his life or something.
Anyway, there's another deep, modulating texture going on as well as a digital "hi-hat" thing. The onboard arp in "SID" mode was employed on every track with different settings.
Recorded, arranged, and mastered in Live.
The story: made for the December Elektron-users.com Monomachine contest. The rules seem somewhat limiting: use only the "Superwave - Ensemble" machine. The SWAVE>ENS, which makes up one of the five synthesis types available on the Monomachine, is a four osc synth with adjustable pulsewidth, waveform, and even chorus width and level. Three of the oscs can be changed in relation to the root key, +/- 12 semitones. And then you have the Mono's extensive modulation possibilities...it's a very flexible machine.
For this tune, I started with a "boom-bap" sort of pattern as a base and crafted the sound until it felt nasty. The filters are just sick on this thing. In fact, they do downright weird things to the sound. For instance, the main sound has a high HP Q level setting that causes strange aliasing artifacts in the upper-most octave. When you add the SRR (sample rate reduction) effect and modulate the HP filter BASE, it sounds like Tron screaming for his life or something.
Anyway, there's another deep, modulating texture going on as well as a digital "hi-hat" thing. The onboard arp in "SID" mode was employed on every track with different settings.
Recorded, arranged, and mastered in Live.
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