Wednesday, December 30

Conga Combi for Reason


Today on the PUF, petegwatson posted a killer conga combi that uses Thor's LFO's to great effect:

Anyone for Congas? (Combinator Arpeggiating Congas)
An Arpeggiated Combinator using a NNXT standard patch for congas
This uses a random pattern on the arpeggiator to play congas (but could be any percussion sound)...

Why?
1) because I thought it would be a fun way to learn using the combinator
2) percussion loops get boring, this way the pattern constantly changes

What the knobs do
Play notes between C2 an B2 (Em is quite nice)... including other notes without sounds will introduce rests in the patter (as will changing the octave range with Knob 3) [EDIT - just realised I saved this patch with the octave shift set to -1.... you can just change that and then play in the C1 to B1 region]

Knob 1 uses a Thor LFO to change the velocity rate
Knob 2 changes the LFO waveform
Knob 3 changes the octave range - as this kit only has sounds in the lower octaves changing the octave range introduces rests in the pattern
Knob 4 changes the Arp rate

The buttons just toggle things on and off as labelled

Notes
I choose to output just a couple of samples to separate channels on a mixer and add a bit of delay to those channels so this is only triggered occasionally.

I haven't made a combinator before or used a thor as a LFO... so I might not have made the most intelligent assignments or connections. I know I may just be doing something someone has already done, but I haven't come across it yet (although I haven't actually looked)......Anyway, if anyone has any existing combinators that are better or would like to suggest (or just make) improvements, that could be fun.


Go to the first post ON THIS THREAD to download the combi for yourself!

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