I thought it was about playing a nice keyboard sound slowly while the drum machine melts down?
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I’ve found that there is a direct correlation between timbre complexity and sequencing complexity, in that if you have one then you have to have less of the other for the results not to be a total chaotic shit storm.
You can almost boil it down to genre as well. I.e IDM vs Dubstep.
IDM usually has lots of complex sequencing but the timbres are pretty basic, sampled drums or even drum loops and subtractive synths. Dubstep has a lot of 8th note sequencing and straightforward drum patterns, BUT uses a lot more complex timbres for both drums and synths.
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And one of the most important parts of all music making that is equally as important in IDM is…. drum roll …. Silence.
A motif has a lot more impact if you tuck in some silence here and there. I myself need to implement a lot more silence in my music.
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A difficult lesson.
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Fully agree. I just don’t know yet how to introduce them (with length variation …)
Thanks, great resource!
I am absolutely the same. I just cram cool stuff into a pattern without much consideration for moderation
Re: break chopping
Is there a super simple fast way to just batch export those RL .rx2 files to individual wav files of each slice? If not, what is the most efficient way to do it one rx2 file at a time?
Silicon mac here in case it matters.
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Wavelab does batch processing.
Will it only do it for a single file or can I dump hundreds of rx2 files in it (all at different tempos of course) and then export all the slices to wavs in one go?
You can do this in Reaper
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I’m happy to download the Reaper demo and try it. Do I have to do it one break at a time or can I dump in hundreds of rx2 breaks and export the slices to individual wavs all at once? Will the method be obvious to an ableton user who’s never used reaper before?
sounds good to me…
[Untilted and all Quaristice and Quadrange]
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You can import as many rx2 files, as you want and export all slices at once as wav.
I made gif DropMeFiles – free one-click file sharing service
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Omg that’s perfect. Wow what a helpful person. Thank you so much. Exporting sample chops from Ableton sucks and it’s astonishing they haven’t improved it/made it possible. Thank you again <3
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EUCLIDIAN BOLLOCKS 
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way better and more informative then the chumpgpt version.
also… ahem…
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Missed that one. OK, then, I will keep it to myself 
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Thanks, removing those posts really does help improve signal to noise ratio online.
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