Torment Kit (disquiet0345) by Hypoid

03:01, eyes are burning, on call and probably spent way too much time on this.
Details when brain begins functioning again :-/
Torment Kit (disquiet0345)
Later the next day…
With an excellent prompt on one of my favorite parts of music making, you’d think piece of cake. Well maybe that’s the problem, I love kits, drums, rhythms, pads and most anything percussive in nature. It was my first instrument and still plays a large role in most of what I do. So it’s possible a little too much enthusiasm and importance was put into this kit. I had thought of using one of the many already in my arsenal, but thought that wasn’t in the spirit of this weeks Junto. Opening my recorded samples folder started the process.
The Torment Kit:
Kick -
1st layer - Dead blow hammer on tire w/compressor, eq and fuzz
2nd layer - cardboard box hit w/eq
3rd layer - unlabeled field recording on some machine w/eq
Snare -
1st layer - metal bucket hit w/enhancer and eq
2nd layer - plastic jug hit w/eq
HiHat closed -
1st layer - container full of metal parts hit
2nd layer - drumstick hit on sheetmetal
HiHat open -
1st layer - dropped lid w/eq
2nd layer - metal box cover w/eq
Clap - breaking stuff w/eq
Crash -
1st layer - kitchen utensils w/enhancer and eq
2nd layer - broken heating coil hit w/eq
Weird hit - unknown field recording w/chorus
Tom - finished kick transposed w/eq
Each kit sound was made in Cubasis, mixed down and sent to Audioshare, trimmed and normalized for use in any sampler or DAW kit.
The entire kit was given a small drum room overhead mic reverb and levels were mostly equaled out with all panned center where recordings allowed.
The Song:
Of course the obvious choice was going to be very beat driven, so the above sounds were brought into Patterning 2 for a custom kit perfect for live manipulation! A 4/4 135 bpm file was created and live pad view opened. It started innocently enough, but went out of control into a 10:00 jam with ratcheting counts and delays and tunings and swing all being messed with. It got ugly and noisy. Perfect, but too long and dull for normal consumption, so the best bits were sent to play with a raucous Sunrizer patch. And crickets. And a badly done building chorus. All with overdriven amp patches and distortion and noise. You get the drift. It was late, the beat sounded good and it all went wrong ;-) If anybody is using Patterning and interested, I can try uploading?

More on this 345th weekly Disquiet Junto project (Sample Time / The Assignment: Make your own drum machine sounds, do something with them, and share them) at:

https://disquiet.com/0345/

Major thanks to Matt Nish-Lapidus and Jason Wehmhoener for helping put together this project.

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