Uploaded October 2021 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
This is my entry to Loopop's contest: youtu.be/dYJrT_WASes
I annotated the video to show which tracks are playing which samples, but here's some further details:
Pattern 1
The kicks and snares on tracks 1 and 2 are fairly straight forward. The kicks have the negative fill condition so I can mute them with the fill/page button.
The closed hats on track 3 are playing 8th notes with a random-shaped LFO set to amp decay time to vary the length of the hihats, and with a 25% chance to play a softer 16th hat in between (I raise the % chance later in the track).
The open hat on track 4 has a saw-shaped LFO set to filter cutoff, and a 2nd LFO is slowly modulating the depth of the 1st LFO. This will make the open hat slowly switch between sounding like it's playing 8th notes and quarter notes.
Track 5 is silent most of the time, and plays a long Nymphes sample that continues into the next pattern.
Track 6 is not used in the 1st pattern.
Track 7 plays a texture sample, but since the digitakt mutes trigs and not audio, I placed trigs with appropriate length across the pattern so I could mute it right before or after a downbeat. Also because the Digitakt only takes mono samples, I used an LFO to slowly pan it back and forth.
Track 8 playes a melody with a 6m0md6 Tom sample. I placed a lock trig (the yellow ones) right next to each note trig and microtimed them all the way so they overlap. Then I parameter locked them to pitch the sample two octaves up and gave them the Fill condition, so they only activate when the fill button is pressed.
Pattern 2:
Similar to pattern one, but with the following changes:
Track 1 plays the same kick pattern, but with Perkons sample instead, and tuned to play the bass melody. The empty space between the kicks is filled with sound-locks playing a Waldorf-M 6 sample for extra bass.
Track 2, 3, and 4 play different samples and have faster LFOs and higher % chance of playing 16th notes.
Track 6 and 7 outline chords using a Waldorf-M pad sample.
Track 8 is the same as in pattern 1, but an octave higher.
I recorded everything in one take through an Analog Heat (with plenty of saturation) into FL Studio, where I used a multiband expander called Maximus to "master" the track (i.e. Turn the waveform into a sausage).
Project file: dropbox.com/s/dc28wbuzgakdux5/Ivar%20Tryti%20loopop%20contest.dtprj?dl=0
It's a rather large project file because I use the same project for several tracks. Patterns A7 and A8 are used for this track, and only samples from the contest pack was used in these patterns. There are a lot of other samples in the project file, but they are used in all the other patterns only.
If this track ends up being a finalist, I'd like to roll for the Lyra-8 :)
Thanks for putting together this contest, @loopop! I had a lot of fun making this.
This is my entry to Loopop's contest: youtu.be/dYJrT_WASes
I annotated the video to show which tracks are playing which samples, but here's some further details:
Pattern 1
The kicks and snares on tracks 1 and 2 are fairly straight forward. The kicks have the negative fill condition so I can mute them with the fill/page button.
The closed hats on track 3 are playing 8th notes with a random-shaped LFO set to amp decay time to vary the length of the hihats, and with a 25% chance to play a softer 16th hat in between (I raise the % chance later in the track).
The open hat on track 4 has a saw-shaped LFO set to filter cutoff, and a 2nd LFO is slowly modulating the depth of the 1st LFO. This will make the open hat slowly switch between sounding like it's playing 8th notes and quarter notes.
Track 5 is silent most of the time, and plays a long Nymphes sample that continues into the next pattern.
Track 6 is not used in the 1st pattern.
Track 7 plays a texture sample, but since the digitakt mutes trigs and not audio, I placed trigs with appropriate length across the pattern so I could mute it right before or after a downbeat. Also because the Digitakt only takes mono samples, I used an LFO to slowly pan it back and forth.
Track 8 playes a melody with a 6m0md6 Tom sample. I placed a lock trig (the yellow ones) right next to each note trig and microtimed them all the way so they overlap. Then I parameter locked them to pitch the sample two octaves up and gave them the Fill condition, so they only activate when the fill button is pressed.
Pattern 2:
Similar to pattern one, but with the following changes:
Track 1 plays the same kick pattern, but with Perkons sample instead, and tuned to play the bass melody. The empty space between the kicks is filled with sound-locks playing a Waldorf-M 6 sample for extra bass.
Track 2, 3, and 4 play different samples and have faster LFOs and higher % chance of playing 16th notes.
Track 6 and 7 outline chords using a Waldorf-M pad sample.
Track 8 is the same as in pattern 1, but an octave higher.
I recorded everything in one take through an Analog Heat (with plenty of saturation) into FL Studio, where I used a multiband expander called Maximus to "master" the track (i.e. Turn the waveform into a sausage).
Project file: dropbox.com/s/dc28wbuzgakdux5/Ivar%20Tryti%20loopop%20contest.dtprj?dl=0
It's a rather large project file because I use the same project for several tracks. Patterns A7 and A8 are used for this track, and only samples from the contest pack was used in these patterns. There are a lot of other samples in the project file, but they are used in all the other patterns only.
If this track ends up being a finalist, I'd like to roll for the Lyra-8 :)
Thanks for putting together this contest, @loopop! I had a lot of fun making this.
