Think Break Mega Instrument 🥁

Holy moly this one has come straight out of the Groovin Headquaters smoking hot! 🔥

This month, I've continued to push the boat out and experiment further with the idea of making the ultimate break chooping instrument for each of these classic breaks.

If people are interested in how I processed the Think here, I followed a very similar workflow to the Patreon video I posted last week.

Once I had the 3 seperate chops of the Think break resampled out of the akai, I then set about making the perfect groove by combining hits and elements for each of them. The hardest part of this was to keep the natural groove flowing nicely whilst chopping between the different breaks.

Once I found a couple of grooves that worked well at 168BPM, I tested out the breaks at different pitches as well as processing the break in different ways to see what sounded best.

The different versions of these can be found in 'Break Processing'

Finally, I had the perfect base to start building the Mega Break Instrument in Renoise. This included:

• Main Break Slices (kick & snare + shuffles as well as individual hits where necessary).

• Long Hits (using the manual extension method I demonstrated in the YouTube video on building the Amen Break Instrument a few weeks ago) .

• Mono Reverb Hits (different versions using plate reverbs and raum).

• Rattle Hits (Photek Technique).

• Rolls, Fills & Delay FX (various rolls and fills with filter sweeps & phasing fx).

• Stretched Hits (Akai S1000 timestretching).

• LOFI Half Tempo Smash Break (made a super crunchy version of the think break at half speed).

• Phase Trick (Akai S1000 trick where you trigger two notes at the same time.

I used Translator 7 to convert the .sfz file to Bitwig, Ableton and Logic and finally built the instrument in the Digitakt mk2!

I've got a feedback stream with Alex in the next few weeks so please get working on any tracks you would like to be included. 😊

Big ups everyone & have a great weekend! 🚀

George✌️