Vinyl Chop Groove
Genre: Downtempo, House · Tempo: 116 BPM · Time signature: 4/4 · Length: 16 steps · Style: short, low-end-less drum samples layered with vinyl crackle, humanised by nudging hits and varying hat decay rather than quantizing
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The pattern
| Instrument | Steps (1 = start of the bar) | Velocity | Timing and chance |
|---|
| kick | 1, 15 | 55-88 | step 15: early by about 8% of a step, plays 45% of the time |
| fx | 1, 9 | 25-30 | on the grid, always plays |
| hat-closed | 3, 7, 14 | 40-52 | step 3: late by about 8% of a step, plays 75% of the time; step 7: late by about 12% of a step, plays 80% of the time; step 14: late by about 8% of a step, plays 70% of the time |
| snare | 5, 13 | 74-78 | step 5: early by about 8% of a step; step 13: early by about 12% of a step, plays 90% of the time |
| hat-open | 9, 16 | 40-58 | step 9: plays 85% of the time; step 16: plays 55% of the time |
| perc1 | 11 | 44 | step 11: late by about 17% of a step, plays 65% of the time |
Digitakt II
Tracks
- T1: kick
- T2: snare
- T3: hat-closed
- T4: hat-open
- T5: bell (a different one-shot)
- T6: fx (vinyl crackle loop)
Digitone II
Tracks
- T1: kick (FM DRUM, short light body)
- T2: snare (FM DRUM, light noise)
- T3: hat-closed (FM DRUM, high noise)
- T4: hat-open (FM DRUM, high noise, longer)
- T5: bell (FM DRUM, inharmonic body)
- T6: fx (FM DRUM, grainy long noise)
Syntakt
Tracks
- T9: kick (BD SILKY)
- T10: snare (SD NATURAL)
- T11: bell (SY DUAL VCO)
- T12: hat-closed / hat-open (HH BASIC)
- T1: fx (SP TWINSHOT, vinyl-crackle sample)
Tonverk
Tracks
- ST1: kick
- ST2: snare
- ST3: hat-closed
- ST4: hat-open
- ST5: bell (a different one-shot)
- ST6: fx (vinyl crackle loop)
Notes
Built around short, deliberately low-end-less kit sounds and a layered vinyl-crackle texture, with kicks and snares nudged forward or back rather than quantized and hi-hat decay varied hit to hit, two common humanisation techniques in sample-based production. An original pattern in that spirit, not a transcription of any specific track.
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