Since March, I have been working from home. It’s a pretty noisy place with noisy kids, a needy dog, and other people running around. On the one hand, I’m never alone. On the other hand, I’m never alone. During my workday, I have taken to listening to the ChilledCow station for unobtrusive background noise. It’s pleasant. I tried to model this a little bit off that lofi hip hop vibe.
The Polyend Tracker is providing the drums, percussion, flute, and low bass hit. First I programmed the kick/snare pattern. Then filled in the hi hats on straight 8th notes, adding volume, roll, reverse, and effects send variations for flavor. The flute, well, it was a sample that seemed appropriate for the vibe, so I used it. All the samples on the Tracker came from Samplified’s Bounce sample pack.
The MC-101 has three parts playing. The opening chords, buzzy synth pad, and FX preset for texture. The first two sounds were generated using the random patch function on the 101.
