Art Friday : Audiotool – Virtual Music Production Studio
If you’re into electronic music, you’ll recognize some of these machines that shaped early electronic music : Roland’s legendary trio of the TR-808, TR-909, the TB-303 (acid!) synthesizers.
Together with a selection of effects processors, Hobnox’s Audiotool allows you to produce tracks for free (much thanks to GeekNews for the heads up)
While Hobnox provides a video tutorial on the basics of using Audiotool and the virtual TR-909 and the TB-303, knowing how to use the equipment doesn’t translate proportionally to your ability to create music. I’m been fiddling with Audiotool for hours and I still can’t figure out how to create decent drum n’ bass beats.
The default drum n’ bass setup
I did create a simple 4/4 track which you can torture your ears with over here – a crappy example of tweaking the various knobs and buttons – I didn’t create enough patterns to substantially evolve the rhythms and basslines though.
Try out Audiotool.
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Hiya Roys! Thanks for the linkback
Shoot me a mail and I’ll do the same.
Hi Patrick, nah it’s OK. Didn’t realize that Andy had a partner at GeekNews
wow, this thing is over my head… very cool, but I couldn’t tell you what any of these do except for the volume.. lol
Hi Deitrix, try connecting the output of a TR-909 drum machine to one of the inputs of a Kontrol mixer and the output of the Kontrol to the main output – that should give you some beats to work with.
Then connect the outputs of a TB-303 to the Kontrol to get a bassline.
After a while, you can slot in effects between the machines’ output and the Kontrol’s inputs to create more interesting sounds than the original presets.
It’s really easy to use, making something that doesn’t give you earaches is the hard part