AH'ers who cringe at 303 stuff, please press "n" (or equiv for skipping) now
sorry...but
On Wed, 24 May 1995 Babylon909@aol.com wrote:
quoted 6 lines I think not.....Richie Hawtin is a fucking genius. The things he thinks to>
> I think not.....Richie Hawtin is a fucking genius. The things he thinks to
> do with a 303 are a total mindfuck. Believe me, I have a 303, and I have
> absolutley no idea whatsoever how he manages to get it to do the things he
> does. Very, VERY few people are able to create the kind of grooves he
> creates with it. Very few people.
I think the Plastikman stuff is merely ok, maybe a great tool for dj's,
but
'few people are able to create the kind of grooves he creates...'
Uh, Bzzzt, I don't think so. I program 2x606's 2x101's and a 303 and many
other on-board step-sequencers (like a *lot* of people) and I must say
that Hawtin is often just programming straightforward overlaps of
different pattern lengths, which sounds great, but ain't that difficult.
He probably discovered the virtues of it via the remove-the-batteries
approach to getting random sequences on the 303.
He and his label have further pioneered that stripped-down x0x usage to a,
well, even more stripped-down aesthetic which I definitely get into
sometimes. Hawtin has excellent taste in tweaking timbres (esp the Fuse
LP + Train Tracs), but does not do terribly complicated programming on his
303 from what I've listenned to outside of those Warp releases.
If you want to hear painstaking 303 programming, listen to the
band Imagination from '81-82, they programmed the 303 for *entire* songs,
not just patterns and key changes, but bridges, unique accents etc.
Suffice it to say, they *never* tweaked it to sound like acid-style
zipping: they just used it to sound like what it was designed to be -- a
bass (for a bass-less band). Boring, but a ton more programming was done
and a better understanding of the sequencer than for much of what is on
Plus 8. However, the Plus 8 artists have taken the *timbre* to new
heights and pioneered the aesthetic for that techno "acid" sound.
For a Sly & Family Stone bass lick, try this:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
C1 C3 F1 C#1 F1 D#1 A#1 G#1 F#1 D#1 C2 D#2 D#1
AU DS DS DS A DS S DS AS (R) AD S (R) AD S (R)
C1 C3 F1 F1 F2 G#1 F1 C2 C#1 F1 D#1 C2
AU DS (R) D AS (H) A DS AS (R) AD S (R) AD DS US
A=ACCENT, D=DOWN OCTAVE, U=UP OCTAVE, S=SLIDE ON, R=REST, H=HOLD
Experiment with notes 2,3,4, & 7 having the gate held on also
Enter these is as goddam-16th-notes merely! Psh!
WARNING: This sounds like a funk bass gtr, heh heh heh!! That's right,
mr-peace-pipe-808, this is Rock Music!
Ok, so why after a couple years on AH, is *nobody* entering in their fave
step sequences?!?!?!?!? Don't you program?... or do you covet 'riffs'? ;)
THEN, tweak the acid timbres %-)
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