Kamoni's Machinedrum Sysex Meltdown Live Pack

micah frank · Post by **micah frank** » Sun Nov 23, 2008 1:21 am

I was sending sysex data to my Machinedrum the other day when suddenly it began blurting out the most digitally obscene sounds I have ever heard from it! I was a little offended and you might be too once you hear them. This is the stuff I love - when a piece of gear generates sounds that it could never create under its normal operating mode.

I took some time today to make a live pack from it. Here's a drum kit, some clips and then some live racks that cycle through samples repeatedly, simultaneously jumping between sample offsets every 10ms or so creating interesting transients. Here’s a quick mp3 demo and a download link for the Live Pack. Enjoy!

Here's the mp3 demo: http://kamoni.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/gablitch.mp3

And you can download the Live Pack here: http://kamoni.net/2008/11/22/kamonis-ma ... live-pack/

sweetjesus · Post by **sweetjesus** » Sun Nov 23, 2008 1:43 am

hey micah, thanks

Tarekith · Post by **Tarekith** » Sun Nov 23, 2008 1:54 am

I had that happen to an EMu PX-7 on me once, always fun to sample that kind of stuff.

micah frank · Post by **micah frank** » Sun Nov 23, 2008 2:06 am

it's like in the good ole days when you open a sequence and it sends a prog change to all your synths completely unrelated to what you had originally programmed - like the drum part will turn into a piano or something. sometimes the best tracks can come out of that. Somehow you don't get those kinds of accidents with software.

Tarekith · Post by **Tarekith** » Sun Nov 23, 2008 2:38 am

Yeah, at best you just get a BZZZZZZZZZZZ sound or a loud screech with software.

timothyallan · Post by **timothyallan** » Sun Nov 23, 2008 3:40 am

That's killer!

madhattared · Post by **madhattared** » Sun Nov 23, 2008 5:10 pm

Micah, you are now in my google reader. I will never miss out again.

eisnein · Post by **eisnein** » Sun Nov 23, 2008 5:15 pm

hol-e--cerap that is rawesome!

Lux Libra · Post by **Lux Libra** » Sun Nov 23, 2008 6:17 pm

how cool is that ?!

Kamoni, would you mind to make a sample-only zip file ?

big thx.

roach808 · Post by **roach808** » Sun Nov 23, 2008 7:26 pm

Cheers!

micah frank · Post by **micah frank** » Sun Nov 23, 2008 8:15 pm

m:o wrote:how cool is that ?!

Kamoni, would you mind to make a sample-only zip file ?

big thx.

Yup, that was next on my list. There's a link up there now for the .wavs only

micah frank · Post by **micah frank** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 6:43 pm

biddleee-bump-ump

beats me · Post by **beats me** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 6:50 pm

Damnit, now people are releasing better sounding tracks based on hardware fuck ups than my tracks I try to actually put some thought into.

I have noticed that some of my favorite sounds are the brief digital vomit spewed out between preset changes in certain softsynths. If ony there was a way to freeze that split second and use it as an instrument.

The Phat Conductor · Post by **The Phat Conductor** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 7:06 pm

sick dude!, i'm all over it!

you da mang micah!

hoffman2k · Post by **hoffman2k** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 7:27 pm

beats me wrote:Damnit, now people are releasing better sounding tracks based on hardware fuck ups than my tracks I try to actually put some thought into.

I have noticed that some of my favorite sounds are the brief digital vomit spewed out between preset changes in certain softsynths. If ony there was a way to freeze that split second and use it as an instrument.

In some cases, you can record all changes between presets by doing a preset change.
But it has to be a single instrument preset, not a rack.

For example:

- Loop a MIDI Sequence in arrangement view

- Turn on record

- Load different Operator presets.

Parameters that appear in 2 consecutive presets will morph into each other.
You can do the same with Live's audio and MIDI effects too.