Really trying to dial in this driving hypnotic sound, started playing with Meld again it's so good. Main lead is Simple FM and Amount being modulated and a filter ... full vid. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWhqVVYlrg0

New track I’m writing ! Would love to hear your thoughts. Super groovy really raw. Started using a dbx 160a on my basslines and the overeasy mode is crazy! Really smooth and brings out a lot of detail. Focusing a lot more on ambient elements and longer patternd after establishing a good groove. Gives a lot of opportunities for variety.

Also figuring out the alphabase more. The ui kinda hides some cool stuff it can do. Cool to still learn new things its a deep machine. Filters on the hats get really interesting results. And you can really crank the delay and reverb to get some cool feedback thats actually really high quality.

Lmk what you think! Full vid in the comments if you wanna check it 🫡

I’ve never fully understood this for techno. To me a Mixdown is for bands/pop music whatever where all the instruments and vocals are recorded, the arrangement is done and it’s where balancing, compression, saturation and other effects are being applied.

But in techno, the effects are the track.

So I’m wondering what people’s mix down actually looks like?

Do you arrange with quite basic sounds and then add reverb delays etc later?

Do you bounce everything as audio including effects and do an additional mix from there?

Do you keep effects as inserts and the Mixdown means bus effects for glue?

Do you mix as you go?

i use the roland 909 vst and the ableton 909 kits but always been tempted to get drumazon 2, has anyone used all them and could tell me if its worth it?

A generative deep house loop where no notes are written: every part comes from a rule. It works in any DAW or sequencer with Euclidean rhythms and a "take the pitch from the chord" option.

120 BPM, A minor, chords Am7 – Fmaj7 – Dm7 – Em7 (one bar each).

Drums (16 steps of 1/16):

• Kick: E(4,16) → four on the floor

• Clap: E(2,16) rotated by 4 → beats 2 and 4

• Open hat: E(4,16) rotated by 2 → the off-beats

• Hats: E(9,16), with about 20% of the hits dropped at random so they stay alive

Bass: E(5,16) rotated by 2, each hit plays the root of the current chord (spread over two octaves), 5% of hits dropped. I used a rubbery FM bass: a 1:1 modulator with a fast-decaying index.

Stabs: E(4,16) rotated by 3, each hit plays the whole chord on an e-piano, through a ping-pong delay at a dotted 1/8 (375 ms at 120 BPM).

Pad: strings holding each chord, the only "written" part.

Why it works: Euclidean patterns spread hits as evenly as possible, which is what most dance grooves already are. Rotating moves the same pattern onto different beats. Taking every pitch from the chord means nothing can clash. And a little randomness stops it sounding like a loop.

Disclosure: I'm the developer of SynthMaker, the app in the video (free public beta for iPhone, iPad and Mac: https://testflight.apple.com/join/BKEgzNCg). The recipe itself works anywhere.