Study Guide: Turning Ambient Loops into Funk and Minimalist Glitchcore
If you’ve been clamoring for a glitchcore-meets-hardcore minimalist jam, then boy, do I have something for you. And if not? Then please consider this a polite, concise, three-minute video on ways to extract small slices from longer loops, and develop them in different rhythmically-oriented ways.
0:00 Sizzle reel
0:18 A preview of coming abstractions
0:54 The “Study Guide” format explained
1:22 Polite Example #1
2:10 Polite Example #2
2:55 Polite Example #3
3:44 Impolite example #1
Study the techniques used in this video in great detail with the following links:
Unrounded Multiply:
• Unrounded Multiply on the Echoplex Digital...
Windowing:
• Loop Windowing (Part 1) on the Echoplex Di...
Stutter Mode:
• Stutter Mode on the Echoplex Digital Pro
Insert (toggle-based):
• Insert (Part 1) for the Echoplex Digital Pro
Quantize (including Quantized Replace):
• Quantize (including the quantized Replace ...
Multiply:
• Multiply on the Echoplex Digital Pro
Reverse:
• Reverse on the Echoplex Digital Pro
Replace:
• The Replace Function in Live Looping
Deep thanks to the following Patreon supporters for helping to finance this tutorial:
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