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Unlocking evolving soundscapes with Digitone and Stepic
Digitone sound design, and creating generative music with evolving sequences using my favorite sequencer plugin, Stepic by @devicemeister.
Get Stepic here: devicemeister.com/
=== Chapters
00:00 - Intro
00:49 - Evolving Pad
05:52 - Bass Arp
10:19 - Synthwave lead pluck
15:13 - What is Stepic?
15:36 - Using Stepic in a DAW
17:14 - Stepic UI Overview
19:33 - Sequencing the lead
20:46 - Lead demo 1
21:56 - Dice probability
22:30 - Percentage probability
23:51 - Looping probability
26:09 - Arp sequence
27:53 - Pad sequence
28:46 - Final jam
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Music on Bandcamp: nixienoise.bandcamp.com/
More links: nixienoise.com/links
#digitone #generative #ambient #music #darkambient #tutorial #howto #howtomakemusic #elektron #elektronauts #synth #synthesizer #production #producer #ableton #guide #sequencer #berlinschool #tangerinedream #electronicmusic #fm #frequencymodulation #stepic #lofi #beatmaking
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Відео

Track from scratch with Harmony Bloom
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A track from scratch jam session in Ableton, making a dubby ambient techno track, using Harmony Bloom from @marionietoworld; Meld; Wavetable; Vital; Arturia Fragments; Valhalla Supermassive, VintageVerb, and Delay. . . . = Chapters 0:00 - Start 1:18 - Bass 8:52 - Drums 14:57 - Pads 25:26 - Chords 34:56 - More drums 44:40 - A bit of mixing 47:17 - Performance Music on Bandcamp: nixienoise.bandca...
My phone is a hardware sequencer, and so can you
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Using iOS music app Xynthesizer to create generative sequences on Digitone and Ableton Live. Apologies to @JorbLovesGear. - Xynthesizer: phonolyth.com/products/xynthesizr = Chapters 0:00 - Preview 0:14 - Hello! 1:52 - Xynthesizer 8:27 - Demo 1 9:30 - MIDI Channels 12:00 - Recording the MIDI 15:25 - MIDI over iPhone tip 21:05 - Demo 2 Music on Bandcamp: nixienoise.bandcamp.com/ More links: nixie...
New gear day - MPC One Unboxing
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I got some new gear today, will it replace the Elektron twins? Can it do generative nonsense? We'll see! Could this have been a short? Probably! . . . . . Music on Bandcamp: nixienoise.bandcamp.com/ More links: nixienoise.com/links #mpcone #mpc #unboxing #digitakt #digitone #howtomakemusic #elektron #elektronauts #synth #synthesizer #production #producer #ableton #sequencer #berlinschool #sampl...
Digitakt Generative Techniques - How to
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Part two of my generative sequences series on Elektron devices. Using the Digitakt "Slice Machine" to make random sequences and add variation. Sampling from the Digitone. Thanks to @EZBOT_ for the idea! . . . = Chapters 0:00 - Intro 1:00 - Random Notes 7:40 - Random Timbres Music on Bandcamp: nixienoise.bandcamp.com/ More links: nixienoise.com/links #digitone #digitakt #generative #ambient #mus...
Digitone and S-1 Ambient performance
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I'm feeling a little under the weather today, so here's a nice ambient jam to sit back and relax with. Sassy subtitles are here for you today. I'll likely do a generative sequencer follow-up video going over the random arpeggiator approach I'm using here. Thank you! . . . . . Music on Bandcamp: nixienoise.bandcamp.com/ More links: nixienoise.com/links #digitone #ambient #chill #lofi #lofimusic ...
Let's learn Phase Plant - Synth Pluck
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Let's try making a noise in @Kilohearts Phase Plant. I haven't spent much time with it yet, so let's change that. In this first part, we'll get used to the interface, and put together a nice synth pluck. . . . . . #phaseplant #synths #tutorial #guide #learning #ableton #music #ambient #sequencer #arpeggiator #synthesizer #synthesizers #kilohearts #analog #darkambient #producer #synth #productio...
Turning the Digitone into a Virtual Analog synth
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Let's try to make the Elektron Digitone sound more analog, and tease out some classic waveforms. . . . . = Chapters 0:00 - Intro 1:04 - Setup 3:20 - Saw wave 5:40 - Square wave 7:55 - Combining waveforms 13:10 - Synth Jam Music on Bandcamp: nixienoise.bandcamp.com/ More links: nixienoise.com/links #digitone #analog #tutorial #ambient #music #darkambient #howto #howtomakemusic #elektron #elektro...
Digitone Generative Sequences - How to
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Digitone Generative Sequences - How to
Soft Ambient Morning
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Soft Ambient Morning
Complex 37 // Dark Ambient Industrial
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Complex 37 // Dark Ambient Industrial
Ambient Patch From Scratch // Sinc Legio, Electus Versio
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Ambient Patch From Scratch // Sinc Legio, Electus Versio
New @NoiseEngineering oscillator, Sinc Legio. Can it ambient?
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New @NoiseEngineering oscillator, Sinc Legio. Can it ambient?
Telemetry // Dark Ambient Industrial Album
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Telemetry // Dark Ambient Industrial Album
Atmosphere // Dark Ambient Digitakt, Microfreak, Multistomp
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Atmosphere // Dark Ambient Digitakt, Microfreak, Multistomp
Balance // Pigments v5 and Microcosm Ambient
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Balance // Pigments v5 and Microcosm Ambient
Coalesce // Ambient Ableton Time-lapse
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Coalesce // Ambient Ableton Time-lapse
Solace // Digitone and OXI One ambient jam
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Solace // Digitone and OXI One ambient jam
Blue Circuit // Eurorack Ambient
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Blue Circuit // Eurorack Ambient
Ringing // Eurorack Ambient
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Ringing // Eurorack Ambient
Boids Soundscape - Prototype
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Boids Soundscape - Prototype
Polymer
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Polymer
#jamuary Rings Drone
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#jamuary Rings Drone
Explorer-1125
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Explorer-1125
Stranger Sequences
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Stranger Sequences
Wanderer
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Wanderer
Embers // Generative Ambient
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Embers // Generative Ambient
Ambient Session
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Ambient Session
Three Module Challenge - Orca's Heart, Palette, Supercell
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Three Module Challenge - Orca's Heart, Palette, Supercell
Morphene // Morphagene, Microfreak, Guitar
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Morphene // Morphagene, Microfreak, Guitar

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @Zarkanhej
    @Zarkanhej 12 годин тому

    Does the scale do anything to the LFO values that carrier C jumps between? or is it just a visual cue for the user?

  • @seachael
    @seachael 3 дні тому

    Love how this just evolves melodically into a track.🎉

  • @strangerhertz5687
    @strangerhertz5687 3 дні тому

    Cool! ❤

  • @seachael
    @seachael 3 дні тому

    Would (edit) love to see a stepic chapter 2

    • @nixienoise
      @nixienoise 3 дні тому

      Aw, I'm sorry to hear that. Unless your autocorrect made a mistake, in which case, thanks!

    • @seachael
      @seachael 3 дні тому

      @@nixienoise whooooooopsie

    • @nixienoise
      @nixienoise 3 дні тому

      You know, I'm having a weird day today, and this thread has been a nice boost. Thank you! I hope you're having, or had, an excellent Friday.

  • @monofied
    @monofied 4 дні тому

    Thanks for this. I think you cannot record midi into the Digitone when it's in overbridge mode. Is that correct?

  • @Hill_Of_Silence_11
    @Hill_Of_Silence_11 4 дні тому

    hi there, and thank you for them videos!!! In this case, midi out frome live 12 into digiton via usb? Your channel's making my day , today

    • @nixienoise
      @nixienoise 4 дні тому

      Thanks! Yep, directly sending MIDI via USB.

  • @Hill_Of_Silence_11
    @Hill_Of_Silence_11 4 дні тому

    B R I L L I A N T ! ! !

  • @seachael
    @seachael 5 днів тому

    This is great, concise, and totally got me up and running on the DN 🎉

  • @billionplays
    @billionplays 8 днів тому

    That totally made me jump! Very Nice!!

  • @videosarchive8058
    @videosarchive8058 8 днів тому

    Thank you so much for this video! I've been so curious how to do this but got stuck trying to figure out the midi routing. Much gratitude!

  • @grandmasterjo1
    @grandmasterjo1 11 днів тому

    Beautiful patch. Wish the DTone had the Euclidean pattern generator like DKT II

  • @Hakucho64
    @Hakucho64 12 днів тому

    Ha, I did a similar thing with the JFK moon speech!

  • @ondraJams
    @ondraJams 16 днів тому

    I would love to see the whole video of this setup, of this beat!! 🙏

    • @nixienoise
      @nixienoise 16 днів тому

      Thanks! I’m planning on it.

  • @nixienoise
    @nixienoise 17 днів тому

    Shout out if you want to see this project develop, from arrangement to final production! Or let me know what you'd like to see from other track from scratch projects.

  • @dadsghost
    @dadsghost 17 днів тому

    This video made me jump back onto my DT, thanks for the inspiration. Definitely going to check out the rest of your videos

  • @psychrockvinyl
    @psychrockvinyl 17 днів тому

    This was awesome man!

  • @whatisthis70
    @whatisthis70 19 днів тому

    Thanks for this great description! Liked & subscribed :)

  • @philippaeschlimann7832
    @philippaeschlimann7832 23 дні тому

    The master of fm. More of this please.

  • @looprovisation1235
    @looprovisation1235 23 дні тому

    Love your work man. Keep it up! You’ve inspired me to find the time to just have play with my digi boxes 😊

  • @ElectronisoundsAudio
    @ElectronisoundsAudio 25 днів тому

    DOPE! 😁👊

  • @EZBOT_
    @EZBOT_ 26 днів тому

    Nice work!

  • @dankaiser4608
    @dankaiser4608 27 днів тому

    Also here to say I'd like future Digitakt tutorials. Love it! I'm going to try this, then see what kind of chaos I can get by changing the number of slices, changing playback to forward/reverse, adding trig probability etc

    • @nixienoise
      @nixienoise 27 днів тому

      Hell yeah, it's all about the experimentation!

  • @xrkalitza38
    @xrkalitza38 27 днів тому

    Looking forward for the feedback

  • @sweevo99
    @sweevo99 28 днів тому

    this was great. any plans to do more Digitone videos?

  • @higherself7129
    @higherself7129 28 днів тому

    thank you <3

  • @MattisixMusic
    @MattisixMusic 29 днів тому

    Great tutorial, i wanted to ask you one question for the digitone , an Instagram page where I can send you a message ?

  • @xtrackt
    @xtrackt 29 днів тому

    Great video and tips, thank you for your time! Also - why does EVERYONE have Valhalla Shimmer? 😂 I wanted to get it at one point but now I’m beginning to think it’s used by just about any synth geek out there that I’d be better off carving out a new flavor of reverb somewhere else 😅

    • @nixienoise
      @nixienoise 29 днів тому

      Thanks! Is it showing up more? I think I was inspired a little by State Azure, dropping it in for some nice subtle reverb that doesn't need too much setup. I usually favor Valhalla Room and Supermassive for the big reverb! I also like the Baby Audio "Spaced Out" and "Crystalline", possibly underrated and worth a look at.

  • @OO-un8ks
    @OO-un8ks Місяць тому

    Ambient modular drone, but really unique

  • @TheIRAmike
    @TheIRAmike Місяць тому

    I'd recommend doing a video on generative midi loopback. With the TaktTone combination you can go Takt_Out -> Tone_In -> Tone_Thru -> Tone_Out -> Takt_In and close a loop across both boxes. Essentially 12 midi sequencers and LFOs to address global parameters like delay feedback and reverb filter cutoff, which normally can't be selected in track LFOs UA-cam probably flags my CC ID cheat sheet link as spam so: pastebin 9hYJSNC0

  • @manuosfp
    @manuosfp Місяць тому

    Nice, thanks! I would love to watch more digitakt tutorials from you.

  • @user-lq5rq9fu8u
    @user-lq5rq9fu8u Місяць тому

    Great demo!

  • @baconbigbeats
    @baconbigbeats Місяць тому

    Beast of a video my man! Please keep doing these digitone and digitakt process videos! By the way I’m working on a video that does a shout out to you and one of your methods for the tone. :)

    • @nixienoise
      @nixienoise Місяць тому

      Awesome! Looking forward to it.

  • @430LMB
    @430LMB Місяць тому

    nice as usual thanks dude!

  • @NoiseEngineering
    @NoiseEngineering Місяць тому

    The ambient question has been answered here.

  • @ondraJams
    @ondraJams Місяць тому

    Wow 👏👏👏 Please share some follow up on the sequence

  • @Hakucho64
    @Hakucho64 Місяць тому

    Would another way to combine the two waveforms (on T1 and T2) be to assign those tracks to the same MIDI channel? Then when you played notes or adjusted the cutoff for that channel on your MIDI controller, you'd be doing so in both tracks at once.

    • @nixienoise
      @nixienoise Місяць тому

      Yep, that would achieve the same result, but could limit you if you wanted to use other patterns during a performance as it's a device setting. With layers, you can play using the appropriate MIDI channel for T1, and freely tweak T2. In the video I was sending MIDI over the auto channel, so it followed the active track.

  • @Hakucho64
    @Hakucho64 Місяць тому

    To summarise the generative technique: 1. Make/load a suitable patch (ADSR, harmonics, detune, reverb, A=1.5, delay, filter) 2. Make a one bar loop in a scale of your choice (step length=1/8, press [REC] + [STOP] for jump mode, FUNC for kbd, play 8 notes) 3. Use LFO1 to vary the carrier octave: BPM 1, random, S&H, depth 3, dest SYN:Ratio C 4. Use LFO2 to fade randomness in & out: BPM 1, depth 90, dest SYN:Mix

  • @mesozoicmusic
    @mesozoicmusic Місяць тому

    Love it. The DN is my desert island instrument at the moment.

    • @nixienoise
      @nixienoise Місяць тому

      Yep, it's one of my favorites and super versatile!

  • @TripTilt
    @TripTilt Місяць тому

    cutesy lil jam :)

  • @rumo201
    @rumo201 Місяць тому

    Good work! This little Digitone is s great Synth 🎹

  • @FloChai
    @FloChai Місяць тому

    Great digitone tutorials for beginners like me! Thanks for sharing! Subbed!😊

  • @KingzofSwing
    @KingzofSwing Місяць тому

    707 smokes it

    • @nixienoise
      @nixienoise Місяць тому

      That's cool, there's lots of synths and grooveboxes out there! There's something for everyone in fact. The 707 does look pretty neat, and packs in a lot of classic synths. I don't have one, however, but I do have an S-1. Maybe I'll feature it some time?

  • @bendixmax
    @bendixmax Місяць тому

    U guys think its likely that there will be another digitone update?

    • @nixienoise
      @nixienoise Місяць тому

      We can only hope. Given Elektron released an update for both versions of the Analog Rytm recently, the outlook isn't entirely bleak.

    • @misery4515
      @misery4515 29 днів тому

      Yes, they update their machines for a loooing time. Might be a few years between updates but they always deliver

  • @minorjoy-records
    @minorjoy-records Місяць тому

    Really nice patch sounds lovely ❤

  • @minorjoy-records
    @minorjoy-records Місяць тому

    Excellent content 👍you could also use control all to adjust env etc on both voices

    • @nixienoise
      @nixienoise Місяць тому

      Totally! I realized that too, after wrapping up the video of course! 😂

  • @nordmende73
    @nordmende73 Місяць тому

    Great! Thank you !

  • @peterbakker9531
    @peterbakker9531 Місяць тому

    That's very helpfull approach of the digitone! Thx

  • @skyscan5225
    @skyscan5225 Місяць тому

    Excellent and simple tutorial. Keep them coming! Thanks!