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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.

01
grandmother · dub jam78 bpm
kingston dub · King Tubby / Lee Scratch Perry territory · 1975
78bpm dub pocket with the moog grandmother on sub-bass duty. 909 kick on 1 + snare on 3, hat lift on the and-of-4. delay + plate on so the snare blooms into the next bar. swap moog→hookesub via the override panel to hear nick's actual analog grandmother on the bass.
·full detail →·↓ render wav
02
C64 SID · rob hubbard territory140 bpm
8-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.
·full detail →·↓ render wav
03
phuture · acid territory125 bpm
chicago 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.
·full detail →·↓ render wav
04
808 · planet rock electro116 bpm
electro / electro-funk · Afrika Bambaataa + Soulsonic Force · 1982
Afrika Bambaataa's 1982 template — syncopated 808 kick (1, 1.75, 2.5, 3.5), clap on 2/4, cowbell on every 16th-note offbeat, closed hat on 8ths. The track that invented electro by stacking Kraftwerk over a TR-808. Drive on for punch.
·full detail →·↓ render wav

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