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◈ chop machine · after the ghostkicks lesson ◈

NAREZKA

v0.1 · anything you drop, cut at its attacks, hard, almost as loud as the kick, a 1/32 around the offbeat

bars
character
tone
density
start

GENERATE throws a whole groove that grows every four bars: the way in (the kick with a chop or none a bar; start: all at once skips it), the motif, denser, tones, a drop of kick and chops only, a peak, and the turn. the fourth bar of every phrase turns with a 1/32 roll climbing in tone or a stutter, one chop again and again from the same start. the kick turns too: its last beat again on the and, or cut to a tail.

CLEAN is offbeats and 1/32 pairs, ROLL rolls and rolling 16ths, TRIPLET 1/16 triplets, POLY a chop every 3/16 against the bar, STUTTER the phrase cut up. every chop is the sound from one of its attacks, cut hard at 1/16, 1/32 or 1/64 of a beat, brought to the kick's peak and played between 0 and -8 dB of it, each with its own tone. under a kick no chop comes nearer to a kick than a 1/32. the file is brought to -1.3 dBTP with one gain. the link in the address bar opens this groove again on the same sound.

keys: space plays, D generates, Z is back, X is forward.