On my way back from seeing my family in Portugal I used the time in between events to create more instrumentals, for the first instrumental I created using only the stock sounds within Ableton. Layering a Wavetable synth, bass and synth drums. I layered sends and returns of time-based effects. Something I learned in mixing secrets.
The following two beats were quick and intuitive. I didn’t try to think too much but I just used samples within my MacBook as I was flying at the time, and I didn’t have any internet.
The first one was funky, and I looped up a rough section and another part of the same sample, I didn’t try and keep it to the grid, I just looped what felt right. I then added a drum loop and extended it. I really liked it.
The last instrumental called ALLL RIGHT was chopping up in the same way J Dilla did in Donuts, picking sections at 1/8 chops and playing these back in a different order. After layering it up and finding the right sections I was really happy with the progress.
Since I now have 7 beats on the SoundCloud project group, and a few more not on there I want to make last few ones and then commence writing, recording, mixing, mastering.