Frantic/pretty jam w/ Digitone, Volca Drum, Empress Multidrive, Lab, Ola, HX Stomp, Godin Stadium 59
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
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A live, semi-improvised performance, all on hardware, and inspired by the possibilities of a new year. I picked up a Volca Drum over the holidays, and I'm astounded at how powerful it is for the price, from its independent sequencer lengths per track, accents, and "step jump" performance effect.
It's hard for me to start with drums, though, so I was stuck until a friend returned my Digitone, and then the song quickly came together. Kudos to Elektron for making multi-track gear that helps you construct songs quickly.
Kudos as well to the boutique pedal manufacturers out there. Strymon's Ola is beautiful, and my first choice whenever I need vibrato or chorus. Union Tube & Transistor is based out of my hometown, Vancouver, and their Lab compressor is gorgeous on drums (I only wish it were stereo, but maybe I just need to buy another).
And Steve from Empress was kind enough to send along my very first pieces of free gear (!). Here I put the Empress Multidrive to good use. I'm blown away by how the Multidrive can shape and mangle the drum sound but still maintain its clarity and bass.
Finally, I felt the song needed some guitar. The Godin Stadium '59 is the nicest guitar I have ever owned, from its sound to its feel. I can't recommend their guitars highly enough, if you play more than just synths.
Elektron Digitone - Four synth tracks (arp, melody, pad, bass)
Korg Volca Drum + Empress Multidrive + Union Tube & Transistor Lab + Strymon Ola - Drums
Godin Stadium '59 + Line 6 HX Stomp - Electric guitar
Written and performed within a 24-hour period, and uploaded as is, with only a little compression/limiting on the master.
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Cancon 🇨🇦
What was that weird thing with strings on it?
Its a tuba
Snare drum
Got Aphex Twin vibes from those drums. Keep it up Jay!
I could easily imagine Squarepusher on this tune.! And I think He could too.! 💪😉✨
That volca drum is fucking awesome.
Incredible dude!
I like the mix of ambient tones from the Digi and the extremely aggressive ones from the Volca. Nice balance.
Awesome! Love that Godin.
Beautiful Jam 👌😊☮
Nice one thanks for the text break down too.
Beautiful
Man, those drums with distortion! Blew my face off! Nicely done!
the real time control with your finger in the Volca is the best of this performance, and the music is very very good too
Excellent!
Autechre needed 6 times the equipment to do this back in the 1990's. The Jam on the Volca is very nice. Classic track mute/scramble. Respect my good Sir.
Sounds so gooooood
Another nice use of the Multidrive on drums - its sounds great on the Volca. Great song as well!
When you switched on the multidrive I was like WOAH. It sounds so good, I really slept on the volca drum.
Sweet jam! That Volca Drum is insane. Best demo I've heard using that gear.
Man, you really know what you’re doing! 🙏
Man, this is great stuff, Thank you! Now I have to come down to earth again...
This tune just grows and grows, on me... as does most of Jay's tunes, so rare these days, I'm always looking, and hoping, for a new tune, from Jay, and... 😂✨WHOAH ! the happiness, when "There's Mail !" 🌹😘✨
This video inspired me a lot in terms of music production.. aswell as touched me to tears.
That was excellent, amazing work! Bonus points for explaining everything
a master.
after all the Volca's, they still suprise me,... mostly used in different way they are intended too,... That Volca Drum is and sounds very interesting
I haven't touched my volcas in a while. Still trying to find my central hub. But i've bookmarked this. Love the way you use the step jump to add variation.
It kills me that the Volcas don't have Pocket Operator style pattern sequencing, with a pattern being used an 'unlimited' number of times in a chain. They'd be my favorite line if they did.
This is so fucking good. Please put it on spotify
Wicked, I have a Volca Drum and your use of it is educational for me - thank you.
You're such a big inspiration to me. Love all of your videos.
Inspired again. Thanks Jay....
Superb litlle song !
Good job on the editing and the captions, I intended on just listening to the song in the background but I couldn't get my eyes off the video.
Very instructive and inspiring.
Keep it up !
You are a genius, sounds lovely!
Nice man! You are really tempting me to go out and buy a bunch of this stuff...
The best reason to get hardware, in my opinion, is if you're looking for immediate, tactile control. Makes exploration and tinkering much more fun. But if you're already getting a ton done with software (I can't seem to), then you might not be missing a whole lot. (Except for those Moogs. Those things are singular.) And thanks!
volca drum is absolute lunacy 😳
Brilliant! Thank you.
Wow, so that's how you music. Daaaamn!
Amazing IDM track, I would have enjoyed hearing more of those amazing sequences at the beginning before the drums came in!
f*cking hell I love this jam thank you, might buy a digitone after this
Wow, just WOW!
this is magic
Yay Canada! I almost bought the surf green version of that guitar. Great work!
Yeah, it's a beaut. This one is "desert green" and I think it's just lovely.
Dude. Your musical vocabulary is huge. I can hear Aphex Twin, Squarepusher Boards of Canada, Radiohead, and Plastic Pope. Great shit!
Great piece of music here! Is there a way to map those seqeuncer steps on Volca to a foot midi controller, so that you can free you "inner Hendrix", while still having your "electro Bohnam" generating those breaks?
There probably is a way, but it would require a sixteen-button controller at your feet. I think there may be something to the whole notion of a "band". And thanks!
@@JayHosking Well, this jam feel kinda alive to me. With the drums variations and that everchaging Digitone stuff, it could be played by more than one human . I, personally, would need another pair of hands to do something like that... or it's just me missing my three piece band :)
lovely piece!
Einmal mehr, toll gemacht !
A little gem
Awesome.
Great!
Love this!
this is beautiful. Sounds straight aphex 1998.
great. thanks.
Amazing jam man. So cool! Question for you - can you sequence at least 4 of the tracks on the volca drum using each of the midi tracks on the digitone? ie kick, snare, clap, on each midi track?
Nice! Go ahead!
Holy fffffff that’s good.
Digging the drums. Very surpised they came from that volca.
Nice! Since volca drums output is in stereo how did you route the signal through pedals? Thanks
This sounds really great! I'm thinking of getting the Volca Drum to jam with while playing guitar at first and maybe for composing later. It would be great if you could give me an idea on the following. Is the built-in speaker loud enough for home practice with electric guitar at low volumes?
If not, could you recommend a cheap solution?
No, the speaker probably won’t be enough. You’d be better off running the Volca Drum and a guitar amp sim into a small mixer and sending that audio out for headphones/speakers/monitors. Best of luck, and thanks!
Nice
Great jam! I was totally wondering what the HX Stomp was being used for 😄
🔥🔥🔥
Are you running a pattern chain on volca drum?
I'm not. I tried to recently, but the Volca Drum was randomly repeating patterns in the chain, and thus it was unusable for me, which was a bummer.
So great. Had no idea that I could control all tracks at once on the Digi! Have you thought about live looping the guitar through the Octatrack?
I've never tried it, but I've thought about it! Maybe one of these days, if it fits the song.
Can you load up different saved Volca drum patterns on the fly? I was half-expecting a swung or dotted rhythm when you brought the beat back the second time.
I think you can, yeah, but I haven't tried it. Good idea for next time!
And the Professor is at it again 🐁🔬🥀😘
Really dig your music and video format, Jay. Do you have any tips for those of us who also like to constantly switch up combinations of gear like you? Any favorite mixers, interfaces, adapters, etc? I find this sometimes takes up too much of my very limited music making time (and physical space) trying to work out routing etc., and keeps me from exploring combos I might have. Thanks!
I'm a big fan right now of mixer/interface combos. That way, you can wire things up for fun and get sound through your speakers, and if you like where it's going, you're already wired and ready to record. Beyond that, the only thing I'd recommend is to have more channels than you need at your disposal. And thanks so much!
@@JayHosking Thanks - was just exploring those. Any in particular that have worked well for you?
@@gluepet2074 I picked up the Allen & Heath Qu-16, and it's worked out really well for me. I've heard the Soundcraft Signature 12 MTKs are great as well.
Great jam Jay! I wonder if you could control those fills with a midi foot controller?
Cool idea! But the way it works, you're selecting from the 16 steps (in any combination) so you'd need some sort of controller to match it. And thanks!
I can't improve your music, but I can help with your spellchecking: Should be "trying" digital things, not "frying" right? ;-)
Hah! I really did mean frying, as in burning or destroying (via the overdrive circuit).
@@JayHosking Aahh!
What is the tempo at on the Volca?
140, I think? I usually set things like that pretty quickly and off-the-cuff.
Very cool!
Awesome