In case you want the See You Later Oscillator hat I got on, you can get it at my shop here! - synthshit.com/products/sylohat I appreciate all of you.
@mjbrakspear Жыл бұрын
I remember a little while ago you said you'd been listening to a lot of Theo Parrish and the like, definitely feeling that sort of influence. Nice one
@coachangeln Жыл бұрын
Had no idea you have an online shop. On my way there to support you.
@SkinnyVampiress Жыл бұрын
I always watch your videos even though I make absolutely different kind of music, and a lot of people who I know also watch your channel to get some inspiration and apply it to other genres :) I think it is great^^
@3iiisopen Жыл бұрын
Same here! It’s just great content man. And I also still learn something I can use within the genres I do dabble in.
@futur_sunds Жыл бұрын
Yep, I as well. This man gets me inspired like no other!
@RickyTinez Жыл бұрын
SkinnyVampiress, thanks so much for the kind words. I'm happy to help facilitate you wanting to get up and create something!
@h2o1969 Жыл бұрын
Same for me.
@CatFish107 Жыл бұрын
Yeppers. Fun challenges picking out something in a Ricky vid to attempt to recreate in VCV rack. Whether a tip, trick, melody, or even just a sound that grabs my attention.
@neuronmind Жыл бұрын
Don't skip thís ....Add Swing . (groove quantize) or use a dotted or tripled note grid to get real funky. Use uneven bars (3,5,7,etc.) on an even grid ( 4,6, 8 bars ) for some patterns like snare or hats to make your grooves change over time . (very techno, works great on synth and bass to ) Happy grooving !
@matthewdee6023 Жыл бұрын
Years (and years) ago I did a Djembe workshop, and the guy had us doing a simple eight-step pattern, where we'd just take certain steps and hit louder for those steps: Straight - right left right left right left right left With "velocity" RIGHT left RIGHT left right LEFT right left (Play the left and right hand slightly differently - e.g. closer or further from the center of the drum for more emphasis when you hit louder.) But for some dumb reason I never really thought to try it in sequenced beats, thanks! 🙂
@ByteSizedSociety2 ай бұрын
Afrobeats (if that's the right term) are so intriguing, do you know of any techno or electro African music that's being produced today that's maybe or maybe not using traditional African or Middle Eastern instruments, but does have an afrobeat? Channel, afrorack, popularized about 5 years ago for Ugandan hardware synthesizer builder, making eurorack format synthesizer modules, and the beach that he made where it's just fun and attractive. There's so much seriousness in house that I want to kind of look away to something more fun.
@andrewdoucet3029 Жыл бұрын
masterful teaching on display here
@GahlordDewald Жыл бұрын
The segment where you run the three versions--accent on the downbeat, static, accent on the upbeat--genius demonstration. Entire chapter of music theory in less than a minute. 2:44
@horriblyodd Жыл бұрын
Intentional, nuanced velocity changes are probably one of my biggest early takeaways from your channel when the MPC4000 was still making a few appearances. Always seemed like a blast to pump out a house track on.
@RickyTinez Жыл бұрын
yes! that's why I love the MPC pads and working with them because that velocity is on by default. You almost don't even notice that its enhancing your patterns because its just there
@void.stati0n Жыл бұрын
Less is more! Simple and cool grooves! Thank you for sharing, this is very inspiring!
@palindromial Жыл бұрын
Nice one! We're back to programming beats! Yes!
@TheBezerraFamily Жыл бұрын
Share the love 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🤙🏾🤙🏾🤙🏾🤙🏾
@CatFish107 Жыл бұрын
Grids and an extra Euclidean sequencer, driving a bunch of drum modules, using step sequencers to give a different pattern length cv sequence, modulating the drum modules. Patch it up, hit go, and just ride the dials for fun jamz
@k-g-p Жыл бұрын
Love it, when you get excited about stuff you learned. Always makes me want to make more music. Share the knowledge, my friend. ❤❤❤
@futur_sunds Жыл бұрын
Ricky + Digitakt is like my favorite kind of video
@LiamKillen Жыл бұрын
I so agree with this video! If you want to go that extra step, i've found that slightly shortening the length of your unaccented notes just gooses things along really nicely too. Or even if you're using the Digitakt, add a tiny bit of drive onto your accented notes. It really works!
@luisnsueondo1291 Жыл бұрын
this one is probably my favorite of urs. together with the sp404 one. thanx hermano
@lebronsinclair801211 ай бұрын
Sp404 workflow is absolute trash. Sounds good but not for me….
@raysubject Жыл бұрын
ad velocity - great thing is you can control up to additionsl 4 different params by velocity on dt/dn/st wich add insane amount of possibilities
@philphilphilАй бұрын
You and EZBOT are my favourite teachers. Thanks, Ricky. Much love.
@cornaddict5998 Жыл бұрын
Tryna get my electron cycles and samples around to my work again. Great to stop for a while with that video, appreciate your work!
@toonvank6165 Жыл бұрын
Dude, it's always such a joy to watch you jam and experiment. Simple, yet groovy. Inspirational stuff!
@rafaelcamargossantos Жыл бұрын
Loving this types of videos! I'm learning so much! time to make some music!
@Pete-LC Жыл бұрын
Definetly overbridge is a game changer for this kind of recording such small changes on a pattern and get endless pattern combinations. I struggle at the moment to transfer this kind of groovy patterns when playing around with my drumboxes to a recorded track. As stopping and having to record every track separately completely breaks the flow.
@Pete-LC Жыл бұрын
Is this a real RickyTinez channel or is it rather some kind of weird scam bot?
@zpurpz Жыл бұрын
Thanks 🙏🏼 your content has gotten even better !! 🖤
@coachangeln10 ай бұрын
Well your wizardry worked! I am now a first time proud owner of the Digitakt. Why I waited so long is beyond me, but here I am. I am now watching this video again with it in my hands. Now I understand the hype, and why you always seems to have so much fun on this device. Can't explain it, but dang it is truly enjoyable taping those little squares.
@wljhawk Жыл бұрын
Always learning from ya, much appreciated!
@danhectic5629 Жыл бұрын
very cool! been dabbling with house-y stuff after making mostly junk break beats/gabber stuff for years.
@dbregel Жыл бұрын
Classic Ricky knowledge drop into making great grooves with a collection of simple ideas/variations 🙏🙏🙏
@memery_official Жыл бұрын
How did I not know after all this time. You are an elektron employe? 😮 makes sense you’re awesome and so is the company
@UnconsciousChanting Жыл бұрын
He worked for Novation for a long time; think it was just last year that he made the jump to Elektron.
@setiroculus Жыл бұрын
its cool to set LFOs to random on these same points and really fun to do it on the OT on scenes
@isaiahjimenezmackson8848 Жыл бұрын
Damn the delivery is very well received and, like a lot of folks here, gets me thinking about my music definitely. Simple and effective. Thanks
@gavinpeters9531 Жыл бұрын
It should be pretty fundamental drum learning, but it's definitely easy to forget often. I find my head is often trying to come up with complex ideas with synths and harmonies, and then just lose focus on the lower level stuff like this. Another good one is to combine this with odd step number LFOs, and the polyrhythms/meters. velocity, decay/other envelopes, slight detuning, whatever.
@user-cn6vc7ix9b2 ай бұрын
You’re quite literally a genius this is so helpful
@lebronsinclair8012 Жыл бұрын
I needed this tip. Thank you sir! 🙏🏾✌🏾
@arturflor Жыл бұрын
Very useful tips on this one. Gracias Enrique!
@anthonysilker456126 күн бұрын
Love the enthusiasm for creating music and sharing your knowledge. Thank you man
@alexanderlane Жыл бұрын
All so simple but vital! And wow what a great jam!
@he-man-music Жыл бұрын
What energy you have! I feel motivated every time I watch your videos. New ideas for sure; but I watch for that creative energy that you send out man!
@user-or3ce4gt2r Жыл бұрын
Superb . Thanks 😊
@coachangeln Жыл бұрын
Bro! Your energy, and enthusiasm while teaching is so amazing. I don't own one piece of Electron gear, but a video like this inspires me to want one really bad. The nuances of what you cover in the music making process is really second to none. As a former New Yorker myself. I hope to meet you some day.
@mr-iz8cx Жыл бұрын
The marketing works
@distantcomets Жыл бұрын
Effortlessly dope…❤
@juancontreras5888 Жыл бұрын
Man, I can't be more thankful for your videos, they are so inspirational to me! Specially since you mess with the Digi, and that makes me also to mess with it to create unique stuff!! Thanks!
@JWolde11 ай бұрын
Great lesson! Really enjoy learning techniques that make the most of 1 bar patterns
@compucorder64 Жыл бұрын
Micro-timing is another one. Worth experimenting with pushing or pulling some hits, whether certain sounds (snare, toms) or even accents, aside from general swing. When it works can be very interesting, and stands out from the crowd, but can sound very right if you feel it. Accents on weak beats for syncopation, common in Jazz but also Latin, and African percussion. Also that tension from layering loops while experimenting with slightly different swings can be interesting too. Lots of House built from sampled loops has that slight friction, where some percussion still remains in a sampled bass loop fights against the main drums. Or the flam effects you get in sampled breakbeat driven music like hip-hop, hardcore, jungle. Overusing/abusing sidechain compression or expansion can give interesting breathing effects, like you can use signals to control the sidechain that aren't in the mix (ghost sidechain).
@CatFish107 Жыл бұрын
Hey, thanks for the insights. As a jokey question: Is ghost sidechain just a fancy way of saying LFO?
@compucorder64 Жыл бұрын
@@CatFish107 no, it's not my term. It's when you use the side chain heavily but then suddenly cruelly drop all contact without explanation, block it and run off with a multiband compressor instead. (it's when the control signal of the side chain isn't heard in the actual mix - say a secondary kick drum playing a different pattern to the actual, that's muted in the main mix but the side chain is made to breathe with it)
@jedcappelli320611 ай бұрын
Adjusting velocities is crucial when it comes to programming beats. What many people consider the "magic" or "groove" of the TR-808 really boils down to using the Accent (which was the only way to adjust velocity on that machine). Sure, there's some jitter with the sequencers of the original TR machines, but the jitter doesn't make anything better.
@gattart Жыл бұрын
Well, that was some masterclass! Thanks for this, maybe a bit basic for most, but I’m a guitarist and my Octatrack is in a totally different league from me, beats-wise... You cleared up how it is that some things I occasionally get sounding ok, though I didn’t understand why or how to repeat it... Never stop learning... Thanks again!
@TontoRandom3 ай бұрын
Brillante. Ricky, es increíble la cantidad de ideas por minuto para un solo dispositivo. Muchas gracias por ayudarnos a disfrutar aún más nuestros Digitakts. Had to write this in Spanish because my English is not good enough to express my gratitude for so many amazing videos. Thank you very much!
@KurtLorenz Жыл бұрын
Always Be Recording. ❤❤❤ Fantastic tips my friend (like always)
@H3ath Жыл бұрын
This was great, thanks.
@RANDOMLOOPGENERATOR Жыл бұрын
Nice one brother, great stuff as always!
@DawlessHouseMusic Жыл бұрын
Good tips. Great grooves.
@Manusmusic Жыл бұрын
that pattern length stuff was awesome to understand, why haven't i played with that before like that? Great video!
@myreviewdotcom Жыл бұрын
I always add velocity changes to HH using LFO.
@marcopoulos3493 Жыл бұрын
Thanks
@atstrollz6875 Жыл бұрын
simplicity is key
@sophieturner463 Жыл бұрын
I'm pretty new to electronic music making. The velocity tip was my biggest level up a few months back, I have a feeling the poly rhythm technique might be my next breakthrough
@SteveMc870 Жыл бұрын
Great stuff. Simple but powerful concepts. Can’t wait to go make some beats now!
@videomove Жыл бұрын
nice one ricky!
@martti7363 Жыл бұрын
Good tip, thanks!
@BDKabrini7 ай бұрын
Nice. I never really tried velocity... much. Im gonna use it more NOW. Thanks
@JamesMcMeeken Жыл бұрын
Ooh grey FN button!
@PathOfWisdom1 Жыл бұрын
Man great content 👏
@djrockid Жыл бұрын
Superb!
@KenithCopeland Жыл бұрын
god i miss my digitakt, i sold it after getting my octa, but theres just something about the straight get up an go nature of the digi that i miss
@lundsweden Жыл бұрын
I wonder what Ricky's work day at Elektron is like... cue dream sequence harp music
@22222Sandman22222 Жыл бұрын
eyy i have a Pearl Drum-X! familiar weird sounds!
@EVILJAMARR Жыл бұрын
I have to know where you got that cabinet where you keep your synths in the back! With the rolling shelves - I need one!
@poco_a_poco_music Жыл бұрын
Custom built by a friend of his. Its in one of Ricky's most recent videos.
@EVILJAMARR Жыл бұрын
@@poco_a_poco_music brilliant! Thanks for the reply!
@inperfectsequence7840 Жыл бұрын
Ok, but we also already have this in workstations and DAW's. I already consider this more a matter of composing and editing in the studio, the studio and recording techniques are also what reveal how to make these productions more pumped and with a sensation of movement. I think it depends much more on the person than on the machine. I have been using these techniques since the 90s, but I do them with limiters and compressors for transient manipulation, on individual tracks. Accent was also included for that purpose in Roland TRs, to make some areas of a full rhythm sound more pumped and others less. The Roland Boutique TR-09 compressor allows me to use the internal compressor with the accent to do these very things, for full effect on the final sound. I have digitakt and I usually manage a lot of the automation of the sound volume and filter to do these things as well. The result is the same that you get on old house music records in the 90s, stuff from New York house music, Detroit house music, French house, you can hear this effect all the time. Thank you for these reviews, the video is nice and great.
@twyjoshy7796 Жыл бұрын
This video is fucking amazing haha truly inspiring
@TommiBenders Жыл бұрын
Technique #02: polymeter not polyrhythm - still nice :)
@chambre466 Жыл бұрын
cool, man
@Kev-1k Жыл бұрын
Ricky I know it might be a little basic but would you able to show us how you record separate tracks with the digitakt into ableton while keeping the effects on their own tracks? How do you set up in the Digi settings and Ableton settings. Thank you! Fire beat at the end!
@justinrodriguez2698 Жыл бұрын
Why doesn’t the swing from digitakt work on ableton/OB
@pixelatedbeatz Жыл бұрын
Very cool as always, 8:56 "your favorite" how do you do it?
@RickyTinez Жыл бұрын
on the Digitakt. when in step record mode. hold FUNC+Left arrow or right arrow to SHIFT the entire pattern a step forward. So what I did was I changed my pattern from steps 1-5-9-13 to steps 4-8-12-16.
@benjaminrmac9171 Жыл бұрын
Is there a workaround (with or without LFOs) to modulate velocity?
@creatingspacesproducer Жыл бұрын
Awesome vid, tried it out immediately! Do you also nudge the samples back or forward to create different feels?
@maetzel77 Жыл бұрын
Aren't those polymeters you're talking about? I think a polyrhythm would be if there were a different number of beats in the same time. You're changing the length of each pattern, but the length of the individual beats remains the same. Awesome stuff anyways!
@NONAMEACCESSIBLE Жыл бұрын
You're right on that, the two commonly get mixed up, same way as the terms "tremolo" and "vibrato" do.
@HIFI1965 Жыл бұрын
@rickytinez Are you going to knobcon this year?
@RickyTinez Жыл бұрын
I wish, I'll be skipping it this year
@SmellMyKKPP8 ай бұрын
I need to get myself some hardware. So sick of planning everything with mouse clicks on my screen.
@CaptainFuzzzy7 ай бұрын
@rickytinez I’m debating getting a digitakt and I’m totally new to groove boxes. I can make a mean track on Ableton. Would you recommend seriously pairing the digitakt with a digitone for full live show mobility or making songs while traveling? I’m looking to build a dawless setup that’s portable under 2k. Just moved out of LA to. Chicago wish I saw your channel years ago! Keep up the awesome work.
@RababaInc Жыл бұрын
can someone recommend a sample pack with sounds like the last jam in this vid? 👽
@cbubbb Жыл бұрын
Did you use your DT the func button turned grey?!?!
@Shmoe54 Жыл бұрын
Aren't the ride patterns the Ricky is using as examples in the first part of the video recorded extremely low... or am I losing the top end of my hearing?
@awjaaa Жыл бұрын
Hmm... polyrhythm? Or, polymeter?
@Spacechord9 ай бұрын
Ricky, would be Amazing see you use perkons by erica synth 😂😅😮😮😮
@bleepfakes Жыл бұрын
honestly cant hear a single difference in those first examples, is the audio mashed or something
@MrMarcLaflamme Жыл бұрын
Abrupt cut as soon as you found the bass! 😞
@nalinjain73434 ай бұрын
what is the difference between velocity and volume?
@MatthewLittle-hu5uf4 ай бұрын
I know on some samplers it will play a completely different sample depending on which velocity is used. Think about hitting a crash cymbal. It sounds much different if you hit it really hard verses lightly tapping it.
@suntzu6122 Жыл бұрын
Really great video Ricky. As usual :D Gotta look up how to do this stuff on my boxes :D More peak videos please :D Love your patches / knowledge.
@mr-iz8cx Жыл бұрын
Good advertisement
@EVILJAMARR Жыл бұрын
You’re gonna make me buy a digitakt to go with the syntakt aren’t you. Ugh.
@zweiaugentier Жыл бұрын
hmm i like your vids, but that one is kinda "banal" not sure if that translates well into english... the feeling is the most important thing. that's it. you can fiddle velo, pitch, pan, whatever. feel and do the stuff. that's the thing. but ok. if there is no feeling, the head will appreciate it, i think. cheers! 😅
@iancain6647 Жыл бұрын
@AName-mg2bd Жыл бұрын
polymeter, not polyrhythm ;)
@christianschmidt9796 Жыл бұрын
Love your vibe! I even prefer often the loops of the jams over your released tracks 🥸. New Design on the hats is great
@RickyTinez Жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@TheLordGU Жыл бұрын
I tend to "forget" to hit record way too many times. 😂 That’s why I started using Rewind (by monkey(c), no ties here). It’s just there when I fire up my Mac … and it already saved me a lot of times - and recorded lots of happy accidents. 😊 Apart from that: Thank you so much for this video! Those sure are things to remember and (even more important) practice (aka mess with)! 🎉
@JackPeloquin Жыл бұрын
Didn’t you also work for Novation? Two of the best. No need to excuse where you work…. Unless it’s walmart!!! Here’s a more serious question: how do you get the studio dust free?? Dust free and cool?! Cheers!