Model:Cycles - "No Time to Die" (Billie Eilish / James Bond) Live Synth Cover

This is a live cover performance of Billie Eilish's song "No Time to Die" from the James Bond movie with the same name, on an Elektron Model:Cycles.

I really liked the original arrangement and wanted to see how far I could take it on Model:Cycles, trying to replicate every (well, almost) single harmony and note.

This was achieved by sequencing a background consisting of beats, bass and a combination of chord machines with all kinds of harmonies and intervals p-locked. I also used track interleaving a lot, as well as LFOs to modulate several parameters (often p-locked with trigless trigs) - all to make the arrangement as full as possible.

On top of this I use the trig keyboard to play the lead melody live. Since the range of the melody is wider than the 16 chromatic keys available, each pattern often have different root positions, so it requires some thinking to play it correctly :)

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