Making Ambient Music with the Elektron Model:Cycles ☁️ Episode 3: Polyrhythms and Randomness 🎲

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I love making ambient music with the Elektron Model:Cycles ☁️ With its 6 tracks and machines, it has a lot of capabilities and making ambient music is almost like meditation for me. That's why I decided to make a series of videos showing how I use the Model:Cycles to make ambient music.
In the first two episodes of this series, we saw how to create useful building blocks for ambient music with the Elektron Model:Cycles. In this video, we explore how polyrhythms and randomness can help to make generative ambient music with it. We will see that even though the Model:Cycles is a small unit, it can generate an infinity of combinations.
The video is split in different parts:
0:00 Introduction
0:21 Polyrhythms: Scale length
1:42 Side note on the amount of possibilities
2:02 Making the pattern more ambient
3:25 Polyrhythms: Scale multiplier
4:03 Lower the tempo!
4:19 Randomness and trig conditions
5:12 Outro
5:30 End jam

[@tiffanzsolti]

Best Elektron Tutos on YT hands down! You must do more with other machines! Happy Christmas!

[@michaelkonomos]

You have a lot that is working really well about this series. One is that you are talking about things others haven't covered in theirs. You are keeping it relatively short, great production value (camera work, lighting, etc.) and really smart insights into the instrument. Your music itself is really good as well. You have a really good thing going here. Thanks!

[@thesoundoftomorrow]

So much sunlight while shooting today ☀️ I usually like jamming when it's rainy but today changed my views on that 🧐 Tell me how the weather impact _your_ music making! ☁️☔️🌈 👇

[@CrittendenIV]

Thank you for all the inspiration and assistance!

[@TheMRthurbo]

The style of videos you are making recently is really top notch. Keep up the good work! :)

[@thesoundoftomorrow]

Thanks so much 🙏

[@griffinharker4614]

i signed into my gmail just to leave this comment… please do more tutorials on model:cycles.. i’ve had this thing for a year and i’ve learned more from you then i have anywhere else. pls pls pls. and even if you don’t thanks so much for what you’ve already done. also the music u make is really really cool

[@TheScreamingFrog916]

You make my favorite M:C instruction videos, as I am very interested in making Ambient music. Great tips, thanks so much for sharing. Thinking I can use a lot of these tips, for my soon to arrive Elektron Syntakt.

[@thecalmsounds7296]

I just subscribed to your sweet channel. You're really helpful videos are about to reach 1000...

[@thesoundoftomorrow]

I know, crazy… 😅🙏

[@stefanrennickegglestone9785]

I learnt a lot from this video; thank you. It certainly influences what I do with my model:cycles.

[@prema9878]

2:02 can’t wait to combine that with per-trig chance, parameter and preset locks… this really opens up practically limitless patterns

[@RPLKTR]

Sounds like Mini Metro 😎

[@kuanjian]

Great tutorials. They have helped me a lot. Please keep them up!

[@thesoundoftomorrow]

Thanks a lot! 🙏 I’ll continue as long as I find some interesting things to say 🙂

[@drewmorris349]

I was on the fence about picking one of these up until I found your series. Thank you so much for the awesome explanations. I hope to see more videos from you soon!

[@MacxsMusic]

Heyy. Thanks for your Videos. I learned so much from you. Please dont stop to make Videos.

[@thesoundoftomorrow]

Thanks a lot 🙏 I will continue as long as I have something to say 🙂

[@71collective]

Very helpful mate some this will work on the model samples...I just bought one a couple of days ago and looking forward to adding it to the family 👌👏👏👏

[@lucbelaid]

Thank you very much.

[@glennclyatt5455]

Great video I just picked up cycles and had hoped to do alot of these kinds of things with it, aside from it be a drum machine. I really appreciate this series. Great work!

[@rrricardo5906]

i just got a model cycles in order to do some ambient pieces, and your videos are so informative and a huge help for a beginner like me lol thanks!!

[@benhall2235]

Fuck it I think I’ll get one. Was thinking I should splurge on the digitone to pair with my takt but this seems far simpler and therefore more like an instrument that will inspire. I tend to get bogged down in the minutiae of sound design etc in music production.

[@thesoundoftomorrow]

I’ve got a Digitone too and I find that it’s really harder to have fun with (jamming style), although it’s of course more capable (studio production style). I would start with the M:C as it’s also relatively inexpensive and easy to buy/sell secondhand 🙂

[@vilkastakan]

When you're setting length of track to 15 and 16 it's polymeter, not polyrythm. You can do polyrythm by setting scale to x3/2 or something like that.

[@lunabeige]

is it possible to use this workflow on the model:samples?

[@TommiBenders]

Polymeter...............

[@PashaGroundbeaT]

russia?))) как намутить арпеджио по быстрому?))

[@karl.weaver]

Very enlightning!