drips. | Digitakt Ambient - No Sequencer

drips.

This piece uses the Elektron Digitakt to create a simple changing ambient composition. The sequencer is not used at all for this piece.

To achieve this, I recorded different length loops onto separate tracks on the Digitakt and then gradually bring each element in. As some loops repeat every 6-7 seconds while others take 20-30 seconds to repeat; different rhythms drift in and out of one another.

While then piece feels familiar at all times, it does not repeat linearly; when I first completed the piece I let it play for 30 minutes and it was interesting that even 20 minutes in there was a period of total silence that hadn’t happen before.

For more details on this technique watch Loopop’s fantastic tutorial    • Sampler trick: Steve Reich/William Ba...  

Recorded onto a Zoom H6 and lightly processed in Ableton.