Listening to to last night's track I could hear another layer in my head, so I decided to added some strings in Reason to give a little more depth. They come in from about 4:15.
A quick session last night, about 45 minutes max, produced this:
There's an annoying crackle at 14 bars, I'm not sure if it's come from the equipment or as it's being recorded into Reason on the Mac, so I'll have to re-record it. That's fine, though, as it gives me the chance to tweak it further with a little more variety.
I'm going to start adding #acid to these posts to make them easily searchable.
In my mind, the sound of the Roland TR-808 drum machine will always be associated with Electro and 80's hip-hop, while the TR-909 is firmly embedded as a Techno staple. Even back when I was only using ReBirth to create acid tracks it was rare that I'd use the 808 section of the app, predominantly sticking to the 909 sound.
It was, therefore, hardly surprising that my first experiment with the RD-8 was an electro-style beat.
So, I deliberately wanted to do something more "techno" And came up with this:
I'll probably redo it over the weekend as it's not as smooth as I'd like – I kept hitting wrong buttons, forgetting whether I was in 'mute' or 'solo' mode on the RD-8, and I might rework the second acid pattern. But, overall, I'm reasonably happy with it. It was also the first test of hooking up the external effects pedals to give more flexibility on how things were processed.
