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Neat trick for making a whole song from seven sounds on one disc.

Neat trick for making a whole song from seven sounds on one disc.

2007-11-12 by eric_swhite

At one point, many years ago, I had only this sampler, and an Alesis 
MMT-8 sequencer. The P2k had been expanded by me to 256k. I separated 
seven sounds to different mapped sections of a single keyboard layout. 
There were usually six short sounds; bass drum, snare, hihat, and 
various synth stabs from old recordings I had made. The final sound was 
a long piece(relative to the others), that was a section of an extended 
drone from an old song, or other source. I could put together a simple 
techno song from these elements. I think it worked really well, and was 
a pseudo-multi-timbral set-up.The only difference was it all happened 
on one midi channel. I could save the whole thing to the disk, except 
for the sequencer timing information.I would steal isolated drum hits 
from recordings that others had made. I felt a little bad, but I 
believed they were just processing drum machines I couldn't afford. My 
guilt quickly faded. I hope this helps anyone wondering how to make a 
whole song on the P2k, without even multi-tracking.   ESW

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