Phuture · Acid Tracks · 1987
patient 4×4 with a 16% swing in the hat pocket. 303 wanders. don't crowd it.
Acid Tracks
the 909 is just keeping time. the star is the 303 going feral on top. that's the lesson: the drums sit still so the acid can move.
two elements
click any download. the lab opens in a new tab, renders the pattern, drops a WAV in your downloads folder. lab stays interactive — tweak knobs + re-export.
- DRUMSelement 1 of 2
the floor — 909 acid shuffle
tune the kick down ~2 semis so the 303 has air above it. decay short. swing the hat 16%.
↓ download wav → - BASSelement 2 of 2
the 303 substitute — moog acid bass
moog can't fully do a 303 but the acid-bass preset gets the resonance squelch + envelope sweep close. tracked at A1.
↓ download wav →
the secret of acid house: the drums sit STILL. all the motion lives in the 303. if your drums are also wandering, you've got two competing focal points. pick one — let the other be the floor.
people speed it up. acid sat at 125 because the floor needed time to swallow each kick. push past 130 and you lose the trance.