Hey Cap! That was absolutely riviting.nice approach, having a concept explained on various gear rather than a single piece of gear demonstrating various concepts. Typical of your exceptional productions. Kudos, once again. 👍
Since I have a Digitakt and TR8-S this is a great demo. I get the idea with all the Ableton Live demos on RU-vid but it's so much more applicable to see it on hardware.
I knew the Linndrum closed hi-hat used the same sample as the open version, but I had no idea that there was randomness built in. Roger Linn was cleverer than I thought! This also explains why simply using a "Linndrum open hi hat sample" from the internet and sticking it on the grid never sounded quite right for me. I'm excited to use your tricks to bring some life to my patterns!
I do this on an old HR-16 quite a lot. I'll assign a bunch the exact same drum sounds to different pads, then have them play at different pan/velocity levels while intermittently naturally going in and out of phase. It's a pretty cool effect.
Roger Linn is the inventor of the swing in drum machine (LM-1) as well as the inventor of the 16 pad in drum machine (Akai Mpc 60) and to me there is no Ableton, Reason, Logic, Pro Tools or any other DAW or hardware device swing that does either It only comes close to Roger Linn's shuffle algorithm (LM-1, Linndrum, Mpc60, Mpc60 Mk2, Mpc 3000). That's why I use an Akai Mpc for all my sequencing. Just like Chemical Brothers, Underworld, Daftpunk and others back then. Greetings from Germany
@@embersandash It's nothing special mathematically, it's just shifting certain notes in a certain ratio. But the MPCs do it so consistently that a perfect repetitive groove emerges. MPCs are rock solid in timing It's the same with the Roland Tr909, which is said to have sloppy timing and therefore grooves so nicely. The opposite is the case that, like the MPCs, it has an absolutely stable timing and can therefore represent the written algorithm perfectly. But still no DAW on earth can handle the algorithms of these machines and therefore they are something very special. ;) Greetings from Germany
Regarding choke groups on the DT, I'm wondering if you could leverage Neighbour trig conditions to simulate it. Mind you I haven't used Neighbour conditions very much (if at all come to think of it) and I know they only look at the previous track so this might not work...
I need to know something. What hand cream are you using? I feel like if i had to use my scarred, wrinkly old booger hooks for a youtube video I'd get kicked off the internet.
2:12 Fair dues to Ringo for playing "Rain" much _faster_ than the released recording ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-P3IuNGxGVXk.html and still pretty much nailing the timing.
the thing is, random/probability doesnt equal sounding human. a human will play the hi hat with a certain feel that depends on quite a few things, but random just sounds random. it sounds like a computer playing something random. its still rigid, it still lacks feel. no human plays an instrument "randomly" and no human plays an instrument based on probability.
Great tips, a very informative video! Just got myself the Syntakt and I tried out some of those LFO tricks on the hihat with some swing added to it, really great results, thanks! 👍🏻
The original Linn samples were once available on www.electrongate.com/dmxfiles/linn/index.html, but they've been taken down. Maybe you can use something like the Wayback Machine website to still retrieve them?
