Recreating Boards of Canada's 1969 Drums in XLN Audio's XO

I was able to recreate the drums from BoC's track "1969" using XLN Audio's XO. I also used Serato Sample to help me isolate only the drum sounds and then I put together the basic beat and echos along with the distortion, all within XO (no additional effects), to get close to the drum track in 1969. Not quite, but maybe close enough for me anyway.
I start off the track in Serato Sample (00:00) and then apply XO (00:12) as the backing drum track with the BoC drums removed (off) in Serato Sample. I turn mine off and the original drums back on (00:51) so you can hear how the original ones sound for comparison. Then I turn the originals off again (01:15) and mine back on.
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[@coffeejabberwocky]

Really nice job man. Just as dope as the original 🔥🔥🔥

[@LarsLentz]

Thank you! So nice of you to say!

[@coffeejabberwocky]

@@LarsLentz I'm not overly generous with my opinions either.. 😎

[@Sonmz]

Nicely done! By the way, it's my favourite track by BOC! 👍👏

[@LarsLentz]

Thank you! Yeah it's one of my favorites too!

[@Disregardedinc]

What samples are used here?

[@LarsLentz]

I had to check because I just let the thing pick them by itself first and then I scrolled through until I got something close to what I was looking for so I didn't really pay attention to the samples much except to audition them by ear by clicking through them while it was playing. This XO is pretty cool. Anyway, these are the ones: Kick 1 = Technomasochism_Kick_31_SP Kick 2 = FractalPatterns_VerbKick_SP Snare = REtro_Bundle_Motown_Close Clap = 12_Clap_02_SP CL HH = ViveLeFunk_GrainShortHat_SP_01 These above are all in the XO Core Content (comes with XO) OP HH = Oscillations/DELHIA_DE_FRANCE_Shaker_2 This last one is in an XOpak called Oscillations from XLN but costs something unless you get it on a deal or sale. I used two effects in the FX slots inside of XO: RevBigHall and Delay4Dot. I also put on the master inside of XO the RetroBit Crunch that really seemed to do it on the drums. I probably could have done something outboard with a compressor or something and gotten better results, but this was a quick thing I did here. In the accentuator section I had the half step and quarter raised a bit. I just did one pattern (A) too and I could probably get something better if I varied it into B in an AAAB run. I messed with the tone and pitch of the samples in the beat combiner section, then gave it a vintage16 groove globally. I probably could have tweaked that better too. I'd like to get you a screenshot of XO with all of this and if I can figure out how to upload it here I will, but otherwise I'll get it some other way. I put it in a Dropbox folder and linked to it below so check it out and see if you can get to it. If not, let me know. You can email me anytime too: [e-mail] .

[@LarsLentz]

I made a link to my dropbox where I put the preset for XO and also a screenshot: www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/hme3psavzr6526lwp7j0h/h?rlkey=p8axf589xkehi2xioxkwo5z88&dl=0 Try this one if that doesn't work: www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/w98h780wshlq0sa873k64/h?rlkey=y5ji87xwfdk5bc8m1gw11xdw0&dl=0

[@Disregardedinc]

@@LarsLentz you are really comprehensive! Thank you so much for taking all that time just to answer my question!

[@LarsLentz]

@@Disregardedinc No problem! I put the beat as MIDI, beat as a WAV, and all the stems as WAVs in that same Dropbox directory (link above) too.

[@skywardstargaze1768]

If it helps, some of the original drums are sampled! watch?v=Z62SfmgEokA

[@LarsLentz]

Yeah that helped - thank you!