Legacy Hardware
Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2015 11:21 am
I never got to use grooveboxes or samplers. About a decade ago I got started with couple Yamaha and Casio Keyboards and a Roland Multitrack recorder (BOSS) and it had a built-in drum machine and sampler and arranger that you navigated with a jog wheel and LCD screen. The sampler I never understood how to use though I tried very hard to get it working, I think it just copied a few seconds of something and looped it but you couldn't get it to quantize or play on beat like a drum sampler.
In an attempt to produce Techno and Trance I would program rhythm lines into the drum machine and send the midi notes via cable into the keyboards. I would then record, live, the sound back into the multitrack (some different FX could also be applied, mostly delay and various distortion.) Those tracks unfortunately were never transferred to a computer because it lacked a digital export function. They were for a time saved onto cassette.
It's an exciting time in my life again because of the rapid evolution of the Android touchscreen OS and apps like GStomper and Caustic. Caustic and Stomper IMO collaborate very well and their radical differences are what inspire new creative methods and sounds. For example I have found means of using Cautic that I suspect others are unaware of thanks to what I learned in Stomper, and perhaps I do things these ways because of the methods I invented with the drum machine / multitrack recorder.
I wanted to ask though, because I want to do some research on pattern editing and arrangements using the pattern copy framework. I've seen videos of the Electribe and MC909, Stomper looks and feels a lot like an MPC as well. If one were to look for some video tutorials or demos on YouTube what would you suggest?
In other words, If I can ask, what inspired Stomper?
In an attempt to produce Techno and Trance I would program rhythm lines into the drum machine and send the midi notes via cable into the keyboards. I would then record, live, the sound back into the multitrack (some different FX could also be applied, mostly delay and various distortion.) Those tracks unfortunately were never transferred to a computer because it lacked a digital export function. They were for a time saved onto cassette.
It's an exciting time in my life again because of the rapid evolution of the Android touchscreen OS and apps like GStomper and Caustic. Caustic and Stomper IMO collaborate very well and their radical differences are what inspire new creative methods and sounds. For example I have found means of using Cautic that I suspect others are unaware of thanks to what I learned in Stomper, and perhaps I do things these ways because of the methods I invented with the drum machine / multitrack recorder.
I wanted to ask though, because I want to do some research on pattern editing and arrangements using the pattern copy framework. I've seen videos of the Electribe and MC909, Stomper looks and feels a lot like an MPC as well. If one were to look for some video tutorials or demos on YouTube what would you suggest?
In other words, If I can ask, what inspired Stomper?