build a set
curate a playlist of patterns. share the URL with a producer, save it locally, or render each one through nick's gear.
- 01detroit techno · Model 500 / Juan Atkins · 1985
909 4×4 at 130 with a moog string-stab figure walking i-VI-III-VII in C minor. juan atkins / model 500 / underground resistance dna. plate on for the warehouse.
- 02trap · 808 sub + half-time140 bpmatlanta trap · Lex Luger / Metro Boomin era · 2011
half-time pocket at 140 (feels like 70). kick on 1+3, snare on 3 only, hi-hat 16ths with a triplet roll. moog 808-sub slides root → 5. tape on for cohesion. this is the atlanta template.
- 03chicago house · Frankie Knuckles + Jamie Principle · 1986
the foundation — chicago 4×4 909 only, no bass, no chords. learn to sit the kick at 122 first. plate on for the room.
- 048-bit / chiptune · Rob Hubbard / Martin Galway · 1985
140bpm 16th-note pentatonic lead through the C64 SID chip. fast, repetitive, in-your-face — Rob Hubbard / Martin Galway video-game-soundtrack DNA. no FX by default — the SID's own character is the texture.
- 05phuture · acid territory125 bpmchicago acid house · Phuture · 1987
chicago 4×4 909 floor under a moog acid-bass riff in A minor. tape on for warmth, delay off — keep the 303 dry like the original.
starter sets
- chicago → detroit · the midwest spine →3 patterns
house was born in chicago, mutated into techno in detroit. 3-pattern walkthrough.
- the hip-hop drum machine timeline →4 patterns
DMX (1983) → 808 (1985) → SP-1200 (1987) → 808 redux (2011). 4-pattern history.
- the slow + the wide →3 patterns
70-95bpm, three records that built the slow lane in three different decades.
- the 80s drum machine workshop →5 patterns
5 different drum machines, 5 different scenes, 5 different eras. one decade.
full catalog · click to add
clicking a pattern below appends it to the current set in the URL. share that URL after, or save locally.
- phuture · acid territory125 bpm · chicago acid house
- parliament · flash light bass110 bpm · p-funk
- frankie knuckles · warehouse floor122 bpm · chicago house
- boom-bap · sp-1200 kit92 bpm · golden era hip-hop
- detroit · model 500 territory130 bpm · detroit techno
- footwork · chicago 160160 bpm · chicago footwork / juke
- dub · lee scratch territory76 bpm · jamaican dub / roots reggae
- trap · 808 sub + half-time140 bpm · atlanta trap
- DX7 · quincy '85 territory80 bpm · 80s pop r&b
- C64 SID · rob hubbard territory140 bpm · 8-bit / chiptune
- TR-606 · Sheffield industrial130 bpm · industrial / post-punk electronic
- DMX · sucker MCs96 bpm · golden era hip-hop / boom-bap origin
- Linn LM-1 · when doves cry109 bpm · minneapolis funk / pop
- 707 · voodoo ray acid house122 bpm · uk acid house
- 808 · planet rock electro116 bpm · electro / electro-funk
- 808 · sexual healing ballad95 bpm · quiet storm / 808 r&b
- modular · berlin school territory100 bpm · berlin school / cosmic
- grandmother · dub jam78 bpm · kingston dub
- grandmother · 16th arp112 bpm · italo / proto-house